Winfield Courier, March 1885. (2024)

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885. Front Page.

What name is it that stirs the blood,

That makes us scorn rain, snow or flood,

And bid defiance to the mud?

That place to which all men are bound,

The finest country ever found

Upon this planet's surface round,

The name which drives most men insane

And makes them chant the loud refrain,

"Hurray for noble David Payne,"

What place is that which squatters seek,

And on cattle kings their vengeance wreak?

That name that sounds so like the Greek,

That paradise, that sunny clime,

Where all may have a happy time,

A land that's beautiful sublime!

There criminals can safely dwell,

With no one near their crimes to tell,

And make their dwelling place a hell.

To guard this land, brave General Hatch

Will prove for boomers more'n a match.

"Boys in blue" will make them snatch,

O! Let us not be so deceived,

Reports from there can't be believed,

When things are settled, we'll feel relieved,

Until the government shall say

That we may settle there and stay,

Let's tell our friends to keep away.

For Payne's successor, Capt. Couch,

I need not here attempt to vouch,

It's evident that he's no slouch.

Our "Uncle Sam" well has the power

To give each citizen a dower.

He'll act by and by: let's wait that hour.

Until the government shall give

Its full permission there to live.

We'll not be over positive.

This matter has for each and for all

A lesson with a wholesome moral.

Be sure you're right before you quarrel.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

A Committee of the British Association has found out that a man reallygrows in stature up to his 50^th year, although after 20 the growthis very slow.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The human race is divided into two classes: those who go ahead and dosomething, and those who sit still and inquire, "Why wasn't it donethe other way?"

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Mr. Cunningham, who is under arrest in London charged with being a dynamiter,will probably be convicted and hung. English juries seldom discover a "doubt"that will benefit a dynamiter.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Oneida, New York, is wild with joy over the fact that Cleveland has orderedhis inauguration shirt of a dealer in that place. The neck measure is 17½inches, which is less than has been popularly believed.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Although Lord Woolsey is gaining no ground against El Mahdi, it appearsthat the French troops are making steady progress in Tonquin. Thus the balanceof civilization against barbarism is maintained.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

While 16,000 names were dropped from the pension roll last year by reasonof death or other causes, more than 35,000 names were added so that thenet result was lengthening of the list by over 19,000 names during the year.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The first apple orchard in Kansas, according to Secretary Brackett, consistedof 120 apple trees, brought all the way from Illinois in a wagon and plantedin Douglas County in 1855. Today the State has twenty millions of fruittrees.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Some teachers of penmanship now teach their pupils to write with bothhands. The method of instruction is to make the pupil write his name inpencil and then go over it with a pen held in left hand. Constant practicegives proficiency.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

In Common Point, Georgia, is an olive grove from which 200 gallons ofoil were made last year. It is claimed that it is the only place in theUnited States where real olives are used for the manufacture of olive oil.Even it is suspiciously near cotton plantations.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

James G. Blaine has determined to write a history of American politicsfrom 1783 to 1875 as soon as his present work shall be concluded. The fellowswho predicted that Blaine would lie down on his back and die if defeatedare finding themselves much mistaken.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Minnesota has brought out a new license scheme. The drinkers are to belicensed instead of the saloons. Proper precautions are to be taken, andno dealer is to be allowed to sell to a man who cannot show a license. Theonly trouble with this beautiful plan will be to make it work.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

It is said that the trustees of Union College, New York, of which PresidentArthur is a graduate, contemplate offering him the vacant Presidency ofthat institution. That would be something original. Ex Presidents seem tohave nothing to do, no future. Why not make College Presidents of them.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

"Bill" Nye invites the Prince of Wales' son, who has just comeof age, to be his guest when he visits this country. "I tender you,"he writes, "the freedom of my double barreled shot gun during the prairiechicken holocaust. I know where the angle worm grows rankest and the wildhen hatches her young."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

From parties who have recently returned from the east, it is learnedthat in all parts of the east people have the "Kansas fever" andare making inquiries in regard to the price of land.

Lindsborg Localist.

This is but a sample of many such items we might pick out of our Kansasexchanges. There is every reason to believe that Kansas is to receive anunusually large immigration this year.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The largest room in the world under one roof and unbroken by pillarsis at St. Petersburg. It is 620 feet long by 150 feet in breadth. By daylightit is used for military displays and a battalion can complete maneuver init. Twenty thousand wax tapers are required to light it. The roof is a singlearch of iron and exhibits remarkable engineering skill in the architect.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

A little daughter of Hans Nelson, living near Pipestone, Minn., was pursuedby two gaunt hungry wolves. She ran until exhausted, and then had presenceof mind enough to turn and face them, when the wolves stopped, snapped theirjaws, and in a few moments turned and fled. The little girl managed to gethome, but was much exhausted and almost frightened to death.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The authorities have again received letters containing warnings thatSt. Paul's Cathedral and the Bank of England in London would be attackedwith dynamite. Detectives Roper and Wilson, two of the government's principalwitnesses against Cunningham and Burton, are annoyed by frequent threatsagainst their lives. Recently these threats have been written on paper stampedwith skull and crossbones, apparently issued by some murderous organization.Detective Roper received a letter advising him to order his coffin, andassuring him that he would meet his fate before next Saturday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

D. J. Morrell, of Johnston, Pennsylvania, has been sent to a privateinsane asylum. He was from 1867 to 1871 a member of Congress, and a memberof the Committee on the Pacific railroad, and in that capacity visited Kansas.On March 1^st, 1870, he introduced in the House a bill to providefor the celebration of the Centennial Anniversary of American Independenceand tenaciously fought the measure through. His brother died in an insaneasylum a few years ago.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

If the papers of Kansas would take up the subject of our business conditionsand prospects and talk about it from a cheerful standpoint, in a very shorttime the public would follow their example and the result would be thatsoon the long hoped for revival of business would be upon us in earnest.There is an abundance of unemployed capital, the people are, as a whole,richer than ever before, the producing classes are generally out of debt,hundreds of new acres are being brought under cultivation and on modes ofdoing business have been improved with each succeeding year. So let us quitgrowling and look on the bright side of things. Leavenworth Times.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

John T. Quarles, one of the earliest, though not as has been said, thefirst colored lawyer in the United States, died recently at Flushing, LongIsland. He was born in slavery at Atlanta, Georgia. His father was a preacherof distinction. After the war, Charles Sumner helped him to enter WestminsterCollege, Pennsylvania, where he was graduated at the head of his class.He studied law under the direction of Sumner in Washington, and was admittedto the bar. In 1870, Grant appointed him Consul to Port Mahon. He was transferredby Hayes to Malaga. At Port Mahon he married Marie Jacqueminot, daughterof the French Consul at that port and granddaughter of Napoleon's marshalof that name. In 1882, after his return home, Secretary Sherman appointedhim a special commissioner to visit the United States Consul on the Spanishcourt. He was an ardent politician and a man of influence with his people.He leaves a small property and a large law library.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Under the title of "Mr. Cleveland's Great Statesmen," the NewYork Tribune comments: "To be embarrassed by riches is the commonlot of presidents-elect. In the opinion of the party it always has a greatmany great men; enough to fill a new cabinet for every day in the year ofthe presidential term. But this year the difficulties are enormously exaggeratedby the Democratic creative faculty. It is safe to say that there have beenmore great statesmen made out of nothing within the last ninety days thanin all the previous history of the world. A man cannot get through the corridorof any uptown hotel without running against two or three score of greatstatesmen of the latest and most fashionable manufacture, who were ordinarypoliticians of small bore 3 months ago. Every state had created a lot asearly as the first of December, every congressional district by the 1^stof January, and now it has got down to cities and towns. Given a man whoknows how to read and write, and has been an active Democrat, and is anybody'sway or is anybody's friend, and the Democratic party will manufacture agreat statesman out of him in about fifteen minutes--a man fit not onlyfor any cabinet office but for any and all other conceivable trusts, alwaysexcepting the presidency. This year we are not manufacturing possible presidentialcandidates. It is not fashionable. The gentleman from Buffalo does not likeit. The fun of it all is that Mr. Cleveland seems to take more kindly tothe little great men of recent manufacture than to the somewhat larger sort,who were known beyond the borders of their own school districts ninety daysago. For some reason not commonly explained by his party, his admirationfor a man appears to be in inverse ratio to his size. If the man is intellectuallylarge, Mr. Cleveland's affection is moderate, but if he is one of thosegreat statesmen who have been manufactured out of nothing, or next to nothing,Mr. Cleveland is apt to regard him with interesting enthusiasm."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Fort Worth (Texas) Gazette: The cause of Jeff Davis is the causeof the Confederacy, and they both belong to the past.

Philadelphia Press: Pittsburg is wrestling with two forms ofdanger from natural gas, one of which is dynamiter's gab.

Detroit Post: If cranks are permitted to preach murder, it isalways certain that sooner or later other cranks will practice it.

Cleveland Herald: The American people are prepared to see Mr.O'Donovan take advantage of the outward bound steerage rates.

St. Louis Republican: The Oklahoma business will descend tothe new administration, and cause it more perplexity than all the unratifiedtreaties.

Indianapolis Herald: The New York Post has proven toits own satisfaction that Blaine is responsible for the dynamite troubles.The Post is a full-blown fool.

Burlington Hawkeye: Carter Harrison got left in his aspirationsfor the Senatorship, but he still has Mike McDonald and Joseph ChesterfieldMackin. The great triumvirate is still solid.

Burlington Hawkeye: There are some Republicans in Iowa who havebeen pinching themselves every morning recently to find out whether theyreally are Republicans. They have read the report of the prohibitory convention.

Cincinnati Commercial Gazette: The President ought immediatelyto get down on his knees and apologize to the Oklahoma boomers for the "greatcrime" of using United States troops to force them out of the Territory.Nothing less will appease their sense of injured innocence.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The Kansas man turns up in an unexpected manner and comes to the frontrefusing to accept money. This may seem startling, but the truth has comeout through the writings of some fool editors. Two papers were recentlydistributed among the members, in which grounds were taken against the billnow before the legislature providing that the county commissioners shallallow to the official papers the pay allowed by law. One of these papers,in a long array of figures, goes on to show how much money has been savedthe county by its contract to do the work for nothing. The books of thepaper itself caused some investigation as to the manner and style of newspaperspublished in that county. There are six, three being in the county seat,two in one outside town, and one in another. Two of the papers in the countyseat are well filled, well printed papers with circulations ranging from1,700 to 2,000, circulating in all parts of the county, one of which hasbeen advertising for the county when the other did not have it. The covetousglances of a hungry printer took in the situation, and collecting a bagfulof types he went there and located, and offered to do the work for muchless than half price, catching, of course, the delinquent tax list, forwhich full price must be paid. With a circulation of less than two hundredin the county, all county advertising was buried therein, causing a lossto the citizens of the county aggregating ten times the amount of advertisingrates fixed by law. He now claims half price is good liberal pay, and enoughfor any office, yet he never for a moment gives up his grip on the fullprice allowed on the delinquent tax list, the tax redemption list, or thesale of school lands. Having found cutting cord wood hard work, he askedthe county commissioners to help him get out an inferior sheet called anewspaper, and with 100 or 200 subscribers thus rob the county and peopleof the little pittance paid. The object of the bill is simply to take awayfrom ignorant commissioners the power to cut down prices from reputablepapers and aid blacksmith concerns to rob the county and the people of thelittle they receive. While trying to be economical, the commissioners shouldcause all advertisem*nts to be written and tacked up in the coal house attachedto the courthouse, where they would be as prominent as they now ofttimesare. It has been hinted that many commissioners, standing in with the taxtitle sharks, do not desire publicity. Your correspondent has seen casesof this kind in Kansas, and would not be surprised if such cases occur.This little scheme should be borne in mind, compel commissioners to payfull prices, and every community will be benefitted, in spite of the foolpapers that say one-quarter price is enough, yet demand full prices forthe tax list, which are far higher than the sales allowed for regular advertising.The bill will meet with some opposition, but there is reason to believeit will pass. If it does, there will be a stop put to the senseless cut-throatfights so often witnessed in smaller cities. K. C. Journal.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

For a year or two past there has been a very heavy immigration of coloredpeople to Arkansas from the southeastern states. Hundreds of colored peoplehave located in the counties of Conway and Pope, on the Little Rock andFort Smith railway. A good share of the counties named is mountainous andinhabited by many rather rough characters. The citizens in the valley andalong the railway gave the colored brothers a warm welcome, gladly furnishingemployment. The mountain boomers have for months viewed the immigrationwith disfavor, but their feeling never took pronounced shape until the 26^thof January, when they ordered the negro tenants on J. R. Alwine's farm tovamoose. The negroes refused, and everything went on quietly until the 11^thult., when the boomers returned and fired several volleys into the housesoccupied by the negroes. Alwine, his son, and a school teacher boardingwith him, assisted the negroes, and the mountaineers were repulsed. No onewas killed. A few days later Walter Cole and J. B. Strickland were identifiedas the leaders of the boomers and arrested. They were taken to Atkinsonon Saturday for trial, but so many of their friends from the hills werewith them and their conduct was so threatening that in order to preventa riot the magistrate before whom they were taken turned them loose almostwithout the appearance of a trial. After this, they visited the farms ofS. H. Speers, sheriff of Conway County, and W. P. Childrens, also a leadingfarmer in the same county, and ordered them to discharge their colored laborers.Both parties refused to comply. A large portion of Speers' fencing has beentorn down, and his fields thrown open to the stock. The boomers swear nonegroes shall live north of the railroad track in either Pope or Conwaycounties. Mr. Alwine, the planter on whose place the first trouble occurred,accompanied by A. Mill, a lawyer at Atkinson, arrived at Little Rock, Arkansas,February 24, and laid the whole matter before Gov. Hughes. The executivedeclares that the colored people have equal rights with the whites, andshall live and pursue their occupations where they see fit, and he willprotect them.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The Governor of Minnesota has made a requisition on the Governor of Missourifor Frank James, for participation in the Northfield bank robbery and murders.Frank has been having easy sailing in his trials heretofore among his oldMissouri friends and neighbors, who promptly acquitted him as jurors. Butwhen the cold-blooded Minnesotan--who has no chronic admiration for trainrobbery and street murder in any form whatever--reaches out to collar Mr.James with the strong arm of unprejudiced law, his friends begin to tremblefor their idol's safety. Delegations of his friends have already waitedupon Gov. Marmaduke, praying him not to give up their hero to a "relentlessand prejudiced" Minnesota public, which would instanter put him inprison where languish the Younger boys for this same Northfield horror.Gov. Marmaduke is reported to have looked solemn and wise and "reservedhis decision." But he will never consent to let Minnesota have Mr.James, and Mr. James will take good care never to step outside the limitsof Missouri except in disguise. Missouri will cling to her idol, and shecan make the most of him.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The passage of the bill to prohibit the further importation of foreigncontract laborers is the beginning of a more exclusive policy on the partof the United States: It is a notice to the world that the United Stateswill no longer furnish an unlimited and unrestricted field for all the wretchedof the world to flock to.

This is a slight infringement upon a principal which has governed sincethe foundations of the republic were laid, but it is a necessary restrictionand should have applied from the first.

In the past twenty years, there have come to us more than twice as manypeople as the country possessed when the colonies declared their independencefrom Great Britain, and the number is equal to one-eighth of all the presentpopulation of the country.

The most generous friend of the human race and of the world's poor willown, we think, that the republic endangers its own existence when it assumesto assimilate all these millions, with its own people. The majority comefrom lands ruled by either churches or kings, or both. Many of them comewith the love of home and home institutions strong in their hearts; thousands,feeling the restraints which have hedged them about since infancy removed,misunderstand the nature of real liberty, and refuse to accept the necessaryrestraints which a free government imposes.

If we add to these the others who come merely as a speculation, comeintending to yield no allegiance, but simply to exchange a little work forsome money to carry them back to their native land, it is plain enough thatthe government, in permitting them to come, is doing injustice to its ownpoor, and that this bill is a righteous one, and ought to have been passedyears ago. Leavenworth Times.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Mackin, Gallagher, and Gleason, on trial for falsifying returns, at thelast Presidential election, in several precincts of the Eighteenth ward,of the Fourth Congressional District, Chicago, by which Brand, Democrat,for the Legislature, was made out to have a majority over Leman, Republican,were found guilty, while Biehl was acquitted of the charge. The seatingof Brand would have given the Democrats a majority on joint ballot in theLegislature, and thus decided the election of a United States Senator, andthis was the evident object of the conspirators.

The jury came in with its verdict at 5½ o'clock in the evening.The greatest excitement prevailed in and around the court room when theverdict was announced. The attorney for the defense at once moved for anew trial. Other indictments are now pending against most of the defendantsboth in the Federal and State courts, and Mackin is under bonds on variouscases to the amount of $20,000 to $30,000. The fraud excited great indignationin the city, and a committee of leading citizens was formed, comprisingprominent men of both the Democrat and Republican parties, and a large fundwas raised to push the prosecution to a successful issue. Mackin is a workingpoliticians, and has held a prominent position in the councils of the partyin this city, being Secretary of the Democratic county, city, and districtcommittees. Gallagher is less prominent, but has taken an active part inpolitics in a small way since his arrival here from Philadelphia. Gleasonis a Republican and has been an active worker also in a small way.

Both Mackin and Gallagher were released on bail soon after the verdict,the bond in each case being $20,000. M. C. McDonald and a Clark street saloon-keepernamed Cavanaugh are joint sureties for the whole amount.

Gleason's bond remained at $7,000, and he also has been released.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Mrs. Astor's supper to twenty of her intimate friends was given Mondaynight. On this occasion the famous service of solid gold was used. Theseyellow dishes are seldom brought out from the Astor vault. They cost $100,000,it is said, although I have heard the figures exaggerated to $250,000. Anyhow,there is no great extravagance in them, for the metal can at any time bemelted into good bullion and only the workmanship lost. I have attendedmany of the Astor entertainments, but never one when the golden utensilswere displayed. A friend who has had that inestimable privilege declaresthat she didn't enjoy the experiment very much, after all.

"In the first place," she said, "the eatables were completelyovercome and dominated by the plates on which they were served. The daintiestmorsels seemed to have no flavor at all, and after awhile I fancied thatthey became impregnated with the peculiar metallic taste. And then I gotit into my head that the man sitting opposite to me was a detective in disguise,placed there to see that I didn't slip a plate into my bodice. He was afterwardsintroduced to me, and I had reason to believe that his covert glance hadbeen purely sentimental, but they spoilt my supper all the same. No, thankyou, fine china ware is good enough for me."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The trial of the noted outlaw Frank James for the Otterville train robberyand obstructing the United States mail, was called up at Boonville, Mo.,February 22, and dismissed, leaving Frank James a free man so far as theState of Missouri is concerned. Prosecuting Attorney Shackleford statedthat his principal witness had died, and he had no further evidence forconviction. The State was not ready and to save useless expense, he askedthat the case be dismissed, which Judge Edwards did. The proceedings weredone so quietly and secretly that no one, except those immediately connectedwith the case, knew anything about it until this morning. Frank James camelate last night and was surprised to find out that the case was dismissedand he was free to go where he pleased. He left this morning for his home.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The Wellington Standard innocently remarked that "The Arkansasriver is solid ice--frozen to the bottom," and these two little linesbrought forth sparks of burning brimstone from the Arkansas City Travelerthat would make the "devil himself" quake and tremble. Listen:"We want to see the editor of the Standard, we want to seehim bad. We would like to link our bony arms around his neck, introduceour fingers into his eye sockets, fill his mouth with Limburger cheese,and compel him to accompany us to the bank of the aforesaid beautiful streamand convince him that the river was not frozen to the bottom by shovinghim head foremost about a dozen times through the clear water to the gravellybed. We would compel the boys who are swimming there to tie his clothesinto double compound, complex knots, to mud ball him, duck him roast him.We would insist on him taking a turn fishing and would push him into theriver's limpid waters, and hook him out with fish hooks; we would take himout boat riding and make him row, and after all this we wouldn't give hima bite to eat, and will do this tomorrow if he will show his jealous countenancein this burg. You knock that chip off my shoulder, if you dare, doggoneyou."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Last week Mr. Early West's children, says the Arkansas City Republican,found and ate some castor beans that had been placed in a winter bouquetand thrown out of doors. They came very near killing them, producing violentpurgency and vomiting. Doctors were called and through skillful managementthey soon recovered. Castor beans are very poisonous and persons shouldbe careful in handling them.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The joint legislative committee which has been investigating affairsat the state penitentiary has presented its report to the two houses.

After citing the laws governing the institution through directors andwardens, the committee says: "This investigation has disclosed thefact that the wholesome provisions of these sections of law have been largely,if not wholly, disregarded by both the directors and warden, particularlyin the matter of the warden, particularly in the matter of the examinationand approval of accounts. The directors, whose duty it is, evidently, toassist the warden in these examinations of accounts, intrusted the performanceof that duty to the clerk, Mr. Pusey, and the warden, claiming that he reliedupon the approval of the directors, failed to make such examinations theretoas he should have made, to have duly protected the interests of the state.The result of such disregard of the provisions of the law and business principleshas resulted in a loss at this time to the state of quite a large amountof money, as will more fully appear hereafter. The law contemplates thatthe directors shall keep a record of their transactions. This they havenot done, as will be seen from a copy of the entire record of one of theirmeetings (which is hereto attached and marked exhibit "A"), atwhich meeting accounts to the amount of thousands of dollars were approvedby said board. This exhibit is but a specimen of the manner in which theiraccounts were generally kept. During the summer and fall last past the financialmanagement appears to have been almost entirely surrendered by the wardento the late clerk, Pusey. The payment of bills, the adjustment of accountsand the preparation of vouchers appears to have been entirely left in hishands. Detailed statements of the cash received and of the indebtednessincurred were sworn to by the warden as correct with the most cursory andsuperficial examinations, if examined at all.

The irregularities in the books and papers of the institution first beganto appear in July last, and previous to that time, there is no evidencethat any money was lost to the state. The lack of restraint on Mr. Puseyand his uncontrolled management of the financial affairs seem to have begunto bring forth its illegitimate fruit and beginning with August, 1883, thepractice of allowing Mr. Pusey to make the warden's settlements with theauditor and treasurer commenced. During the fourteen months succeeding,Mr. Pusey made eight regular monthly settlements on water business. Therecords of the auditor of the state show that at first Mr. Pusey's settlementsfor Warden Jones were only occasionally, but later they increased and, duringthe five consecutive months, Mr. Pusey made the regular settlements. Thesesettlements were made with the auditor and treasurer upon the written requestof the warden."

Then followed in detail the defalcation of Pusey as they occurred; afterwhich, the report continued as follows: "The system of making pettycoal sales in vogue at the institution gave Mr. Pusey scope for the exerciseof his peculiar talent. A person wanting to purchase coal would make hisapplication, and after paying for the amount of coal desired, would receivean order on the weigh clerk for the same. On presentation of the order,the coal would be delivered to him and the order taken up by the clerk.No record was made of the issuance of the order. At the close of each day'stransaction, these orders were returned to Mr. Pusey by the weigh clerk,and, as there were no records, Mr. Pusey made such use of them as he sawfit. If the orders were destroyed, the money need not be accounted for andmany orders must have been by him destroyed. Since the discovery of Mr.Pusey's frauds, however, this system has been changed and the orders aredelivered by the weigh clerk to the warden instead of to the clerk. Thetotal amount of Pusey's embezzlement, as nearly as can be ascertained, bythe petty coal steals, is about $5,000. The following tabulated statementwill give the various amounts, specifically, with date: August 6^th,on settlement with the state and not accounted for by Pusey, $200; September18^th, received by Pusey on George W. Innes & Co.'s vouchers(forged), $2,782.36; received by Pusey from error in the settlement of theaccount with G. Samish, not accounted for, $150; the check of Warden Jonesin payment of a draft on Ripley & Kemple, retained by Pusey, $447.28;salary drawn by Pusey in excess of the amount due him, $83.33; receivedon coal sales, not accounted for by Pusey, but amount admitted by the warden,$328.70.

In this connection it is but just for the committee to say that thereis no evidence or suspicion tending to show that the warden acted incorrectlyin any instance. His duties have been many and he placed too much confidencein a clerk for whose appointment he was not responsible. The appointmenthad been dictated to the board of directors by the then governor of thestate. The difficulties which Warden Jones labored under which are urgedin palliation of his neglect, can be to a considerable extent removed bygiving the warden clerical assistance--either a private secretary or a clerk,for whose appointment and transactions he shall be held responsible andwhose duties it should be to keep the warden's cash book and compare detailedstatements and vouchers with invoices, etc., before the statement and voucheris approved by the warden. The present management took charge of the institutionunder exceptionally favorable circ*mstances. The discipline and managementwere in thorough order, and the coal mine in so nearly a perfected statethat the plans of the late warden had but to be carried out to insure afinancial success, such as had hardly been deemed possible in the historyof prison management. That this has largely been done is evident by thelarge output of coal and the self-supporting condition of the institution.At the time of our visit to the institution, there were 777 convicts. Toaccommodate this large number, in many instances two prisoners had to occupythe same cell, the total number of cells being 688. The cells are in dimensions7½ x 7 x 4 feet, which size is wholly inadequate for the accommodationof two persons. The question of dollars and cents, ever so important instate actions is not the only one to consider. Humanity is interested inknowing that all proper efforts have been made toward reclaiming to betterlife those who, at the expiration of their terms, are returned to society.We, therefore, recommend that an institution, reformatory in its character,be built at as early a date as possible by utilizing, as far as may be thelabor now at the disposal of the state, and that, when built, it be usedfor the confinement of those convicted of their first offense and for lessercrimes; that they be clad in a garb differing from that in vogue; that suchbe authorized by law; that when those serving terms from the state shallprove incorrigible, they shall be transferred to the penitentiary; alsothat the trusty and meritorious in the penitentiary may, during later periods,be transferred to such reformatory place.

The report concludes with extensive and creditable notices of the newwater works, said to be the best in the state, and the macadamized roadto Leavenworth. The committee recommends a more perfect system of sewerage,the employment of a secretary for the warden, and an assistant physician,and that the records of the prison in all respects be kept more systematically.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The bill reported to the senate to enable the President to negotiatefor the purchase of the Oklahoma lands provides, among other things, thatany person who, without authority of law, enters these lands shall be finednot more than $500 or imprisonment not more than one year, or both, forthe first offense and fined $1,000 or imprisonment not more than two yearsfor each subsequent offense. The bill authorizes the seizure of the outfitof such persons.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

A citizen of Wichita once died and went to heaven, said a modern Munchausen.At the golden gate he was asked his name, which he told, and where he camefrom. When he said he was from Wichita, the angel told him he could notenter. Accordingly he went down to hades. The Devil asked him his name,which he told, and also where he came from. When he said he was from Wichitathe Devil said he could not come in. "My God!" exclaimed the man,"must I go back to Wichita?"

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

This globe we have in mind is over seven feet in diameter and made ofwood, by a Capuchin monk, Father Legrand, in 1729, and is, today, preservedin the public library of Dijon, the French ancestral home of Father Laurent.On the proper place of its huge surface is marked the then known geographyof what is now the State of Iowa and adjacent territory, and, as elsewhereappears in the report of the Academy of Science meeting, transcripts ofthis part of the globe (relating to Iowa) have been carefully made by M.Guignard, Librarian of Dijon, and transmitted to the academy.

What was known of Iowa and what was Iowa 160 years ago? We find the greatriver flowing by her eastern border and then known as the "Missisipi."Lake "Pepin" is located near St. Paul, and is an immense wideningof the river, which, from this point north breaks into many streams.

The River des Moingona is easily recognizable from its name and courseas the Des Moines, and is quite accurately traced, but widens into an immenselake near the Minnesota line, and at a point quite above is marked the spotinscribed: "To this point came the Baron Lahontan." It is probablethat the Baron got mixed up in traveling over those marshy prairies, for,though he evidently struck Lake Obokoji and Spirit Lake, he evidently gotover on the Missouri. This river is down, but it runs parallel with theMoingona or Des Moines, up into Iowa and comes to a sudden end. Betweenthese rivers was the apparent missionary ground of the Jesuit fathers, forthis country is thickly lined with the names of Indian tribes, while northof the Des Moines we find few Indian settlements.

Of the Indians, the Panis appear the most numerous. Others are the Esanapes,Panibousas, Paoutaousas, Alaouez, Mahas, Tintons, Osages, Apanas, Panisassas,Cansas, and the Illinois, the latter being put on the West bank of the Mississippiriver, near St. Louis.

The only bluffs marked on the great river are located near Muscatineand below in Illinois.

There is a river flowing from a Lake Panis in Missouri eastwardly, whichis named "Meschasepi," evidently a corruption of or the originalof Mississippi.

The Ouabache (Wabash) empties into the Mississippi where the Ohio joinsit, and the fathers evidently supposed the two rivers were one and the same.

Fort St. Louis is marked on the Illinois river, about 100 miles fromits mouth.

Salt Springs are located very near the celebrated Hot Springs of Arkansas,and it is probable that the famous Arkansas baths had been tried by theseearly missionaries; let us hope with great relief to those pioneer fatherswho were traversing the malarial swamps of the West 200 years ago in theservice of their Master.

Many other singular features appear in these extracts from theold globe. They are the earliest map of Iowa extant, so far as known, andwill be studied with deep interest by students of history and geography.They settle the question of the origin of the name of Iowa's capital andriver, which but for the elegance of the present combination should be changedfrom Des Moines to Moingona. The present name has no meaning; the othername would perpetuate the memory of what appears to have been Iowa's mostpowerful tribe of Indians.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Sam Randall won't take a cabinet position, it is said. Sammy apparentlythinks he is a bigger man than Cleveland.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The U. S. Senate passed the bill containing an appropriation of $50,000for the erection of a public building at Wichita, Kansas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Cleveland is said to have a "cool-brindle eye." A cow withthat variety of eye is very apt to be wicked. Will the parallel hold?

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Senator Ingalls does not believe in European contract pauper labor. OurSenator takes the side of the workingman every time.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

In its last issue Puck has a very suggestive cartoon--a recumbentlion being kicked by an ass. The lion is Gen. Grant and the ass is dressedin a major general's uniform labeled Rosecrans.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The Gladstone government is having a difficult time in explaining, inthe face of lately published letters of Gordon, in which he severely censuresthe government for leaving him to his fate.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

There is less talk now and less apprehension in Washington of an extrasession of Congress. The Republican Senate by its prompt dispatch of workthe Democratic house delayed, has brought about this relief to the publicmind.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

If, owing to the inhospitality of the climate, and the ruggedness ofthe route, Gen. Wolseley couldn't get to Khartoum, we do not see how theIrish patriots are going to get five Gatlin guns and a ton or two of Congreverockets to El Mahdi, as has been suggested.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The country press seems largely inclined to help Sedalia to the capitalof Missouri. The difficulty of getting to Jefferson City and the poor accommodationsafforded when one gets there, are conspiring to make the removal of thecapital popular throughout the state.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The value of wheat and flour imported into Canada for the last six monthsof 1884 was $1,650,268; corn meals $185,061. The total value of wheat exportedfrom Canada for the six months mentioned here above is $3,460,167, of whichonly $782,909 was the produce of Canada.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

A German test for watered milk consists in dipping a well polished knittingneedle into a deep vessel of milk, and then immediately withdrawing it inan upright position. If the milk is pure, a drop of the fluid will hangto the needle; but the addition of even a small proportion of water willprevent the adhesion of the drop.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Frank Bacon, the Kansas commissioner at New Orleans, in his reply tothe resolution of the Kansas legislature, condemning his action in joiningin an invitation to Jeff Davis to help escort Liberty bell to New Orleans,takes over a column of nonpareil in relating how he captured Jeff at Beauvais.It rather strikes us that Jeff captured Mr. Bacon by a very numerous majority.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The reports of Gen. Grant's condition are such as to create widespreadalarm. Though the mission of his life may be said to have been accomplished,if great achievements form a measure for any man, yet the American peopleare loath to believe that he is in danger. The hope is sincere and universalthat Gen. Grant may be long spared to us as the first citizen of our greatrepublic.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

A story is told of a shrewish Scotch woman who tried to wean her husbandfrom the dram-shop by employing her brother to act the part of a ghost andbrighten John on his way home. "Who are you?" said the man asthe apparition rose before him from behind a bush. "I am Auld Nick,"was the reply. "Come awe,' mon," said John, nothing daunted. "Gie'sa shake o' your hand. I am married tae a sister o' yours."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The annual report of Spofford, librarian of Congress, has been submittedto the Senate. It said the library contains 544,087 volumes, and 185,000pamphlets, an increase of 31,256 volumes over the previous year. The lawlibrary, included in the above statement, contains 63,265 volumes. The "copyrightoffice" report says: "It still shows increased business notwithstandingcommercial and industrial depression."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Just why the United States should pay Charley Reed and Scoville $5,000for defending Guiteau, we cannot understand. They were appointed by no courtto do it: Scoville being a brother-in-law of the assassin became his councilat his solicitation, and Charley Reed volunteered to defend the assassinfor the sake of the notoriety it would give him. It is just robbing thepeople of $5,000 outright to give it to this twain for defending Guiteau.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The way the New York World goes for the mugwumps is absolutelycruel. They deserve no recognition whatever at the hands of the Democrats,it says, for Mr. Cleveland is in honor bound to make his administrationdistinctively, thoroughly, uncompromisingly Democratic in all its politicalfeatures. As the World is quite generally supposed to voice thesentiments of the incoming administration, it is quite evident that thereis a period of exceedingly chilly weather in prospect for the mugwumps.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

It is said the Mormon President and party, who have been in Mexico ona secret mission, have completed arrangements with Chief Cajeur to removethe polygamists to Sonora, Mexico. It is said that President Taylor hasagreed to settle 50,000 people there within two years, and that the polygamistswill leave the monogamists in a body. The report has not been verified yet,but our long suffering people will bid them "God-speed" in anyundertaking that will relieve this country of the pest. We hope it is true.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

An Arkansas squire is always equal to the occasion however trying itmay be. An incident illustrating this happened in the St. Francis Bottoms,Arkansas, a few days ago. A negro was crossing the Tyronza river on a mule,fell off, and was drowned. The mule, however, came safely to shore and wasimmediately taken possession of by a "squire" who lived thereabouts.The river was dragged and after some time the negro's body was found andon it was strapped a pistol. Right here was where the "squire"came to the front. The negro had been dead three days, but the squire finedhim $50 and costs for carrying concealed weapons, and in default of paymentconfiscated the mule and pistol. A great and glorious future awaits this"squire."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The Senate has passed the bill authorizing the president to enter intonegotiations to acquire for the Government full title to the Oklahoma lands,to the end that they may be thrown open to white settlement. It is hardlylikely that the House can take up the bill, as it is so pressed with delayedwork that it can hardly give attention to any new legislation. If the openingof Oklahoma be delayed until next December, when the Forty-ninth Congressconvenes, the present Democratic House can be blamed for it. Legislationin regard to Oklahoma is imperatively demanded by large numbers and greatinterests in the west, but this measure like many other pieces of legislationis almost certain not to be entertained by the House--it having fritteredaway valuable time in profitless discussions.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The greatest obstacle to the enforcement of the prohibitory law is thefact that express companies take orders for liquors of persons all alongthe line of the railroads, and bring such liquors from Missouri to supplytheir customers for drinking purposes. And even this is not the worst ofit. The express offices in the towns and cities of Kansas have become thevilest kind of doggeries, keeping on hand beer and whiskey in bottles, kegs,and demijohns for sale, and selling to those who apply. Of course, theyhave a pretense that the sale is a delivery of a package received by express,C. O. D., addressed to the applicant, but in fact the address is suppliedto a package already on hand when the applicant calls, so a man can gethis order on a Kansas City house filled in one minute after leaving hisorder with the express agent in the interior of Kansas. It is the baldestkind of violation and defiance of the law, and these vile dons of infamyrunning as express offices ought to be suppressed whatever the damage orinconvenience to our citizens in their legitimate uses for express business.

Two of these dens have existed in Winfield for the past two or threeyears, and the only valid argument used here against the prohibitory lawis that under it the express companies without paying any license or othertax do the dram-shop business that would pay license and other taxes butfor the law.

Senator Jennings attempted in the Senate to amend H. B. 367, by finingthe transportation companies heavily and imprisoning the agents or employeeswho handle, transport, and deliver intoxicating liquors to anyone in Kansasnot authorized to sell under the law, or to anyone to be used as a beverage,or sold in violation of law.

But this amendment failed because it interferes with railroad traffic,and a majority of the Senators are owned by the railroads. Some Senatorsare strongly for any amendment which will make the prohibitory law moreefficient, save such as will interfere with or tend to regulate railroadtraffic. With them, railroads and express companies are above law, are "bigger"than the State of Kansas, and should rule and regulate the State insteadof the State regulating them.

One of the smart arguments against the amendment was that it would "bustup" the Republican party. This is the stock of argument on all questions,and if any member of the Kansas Legislature is idiotic enough to let sucha foolish, bulldozing argument influence him in the least on any question,he should be furnished quarters in the State Imbecile Institution at once.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

We publish today a letter of President Cleveland under date of February24, in reply to 100 members of Congress in favor of silver coinage, requestingthe incoming President to make no recommendation in his inaugural addressin favor of the proposed suspension. Mr. Cleveland states the facts of thesituation in a concise and statesmanlike manner and his views in our opinionare eminently sound. The imminent danger is that gold will be displacedas currency and sent to Europe, becoming in this country a commodity forspeculation and held at a premium of 15 to 20 percent, possibly higher.The effect would be to cause a most serious panic, reduce the volume ofcurrency $300,000,000 and reducing the prices of labor and farm productsto anti-war rates, thus fully terminating our long period of unprecedentedprosperity.

We think the silver producers and speculators are asking too much ofthe people of the United States when they demand that the government shallbuy all their silver bullion to pile up in the treasury without increasingthe circulation of currency but at the expense of the prosperity of thewhole people.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The committee on public lands reported to the national Senate February24, with amendments, the bill to prevent aliens from acquiring land in theTerritories. As amended, it provides that hereafter it shall be unlawfulfor persons not citizens of the United States, or who have not declaredtheir intention to become such, or for foreign corporations to hold realestate in the Territories. The bill also provides that no railroad, turnpike,or canal corporation shall hereafter acquire or own lands in the Territories,except such as are necessary for their operation or have been granted byCongress; and all such lands, whether acquired before or after the passageof this act, which are not necessary for the operation of such companies,shall be disposed of within ten years after the passage of this act, and,if not disposed of, shall be forfeited to the United States. All propertyacquired in violation of this act shall be forfeited to the United States.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Col. W. C. Jones, Warden of the State Penitentiary, at Lansing, has verysensibly tendered to Governor Martin his resignation, with the request thatit take effect April 1^st. The resignation was accepted and Col.Jones' successor will be appointed before the Legislature adjourns sinedie.

Thomas Taylor, the gentleman appointed by Governor Glick, December 17^th,to take the census of Comanche County, with a view to perfecting its organization,made his returns to Governor Martin Feb. 26^th, showing 2,579inhabitants. The county seat has not yet been established. There are threecandidates for the honor: Coldwater, Nescatunga, and Avilla, but the faceof the returns appear to indicate that a majority of the legal voters arefavorable to Coldwater. Whether they take kindly to the fluid known by thatname is not stated, but there seems to be a lurking suspicion about headquartersthat they do.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The trial of Judge Advocate General, David G. Swaim, by the court martialhas finally concluded by the finding of "guilty of conduct to the prejudiceof good order and discipline, but not guilty of neglect of duty; not guiltyof conduct unbecoming an officer, and not guilty of selling forage on hisown account." The sentence of the court is to be suspended from rankand duty for twelve years and forfeit one half of his monthly pay for thesame period. The President has finally approved the sentence, though hecriticizes the court unmercifully for its inconsistencies.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

A modern scientist has discovered that mental activity enhances physicalbeauty, thus controverting an old theory. He says: "A handsome manor woman either who does nothing but lives well or self indulgently, growsflabby and all the fine lines of the features are lost, but the hard thinkerhas an admirable sculptor always at work keeping his fine lines in repairand constantly going over his face to improve the original design."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

At a party given by Senator and Mrs. Miller, of California, recently,Senator Bayard's daughter wore the startling costume of the evening in thedress of a "lady of the First Empire." The scant and clinginggarments were of pale blue cashmere, the waist only the merest girdle orzone of pearls, and the skirt open at one side to the knee.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The habit which frontier postmasters have of carrying the mail aroundin the pockets of their trousers vexes the souls of the cowboys. When oneof the latter has ridden 200 miles after his mail and is told by the postmaster'swife that the post office has gone after a barrel of water and won't beback for two days, the "cow-puncher" feels like complaining tothe Government.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

When the new administration is settled firmly into power and the officeseekers have been provided for that can be accommodate, then 1,000 cowboyswill be needed to make a grand round up in the District of Columbia of allthe disappointed office seekers, then a charity committee to provide transportationhome. Two hours spent in that crowd would cause any ordinary man to commitsuicide.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The question before the United States Senate, being in substance, ifnot in words, "Resolved, That we are opposed to the assassination ofunoffending people by dynamite." It was carried, 65 to 1. The negativevote was cast by Senator Riddleberger, who thereby wrote himself down anass, and as near infamous as an ass may be.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The following is the reply addressed by President-elect Cleveland tothe silver coinage advocates in congress.

To Hon. A. J. Warner and others, members of the Forty-eighth congress.

Gentlemen: The letter which I have had the honor to receive from youinvites, and indeed obliges me to give an expression to some great publicnecessities, although in advance of the moment when they would become objectsof my official care and partial responsibility. Your solicitude that myjudgment shall have been carefully and deliberately formed is entirely justand I accept the suggestion in the same friendly spirit in which it hasbeen made. It is also fully justified by the nature of a financial crisiswhich under the operation of the act of congress of February 28, 1878, isnow close at hand. By compliance with the requirements of that law, allthe vaults of treasury have been and are heaped full of silver coins, whichare now worth less than 85 percent of the gold dollar prescribed as the"unit of value" in section 14 of the act of February 12, 1873,and which, with the silver certificates representing such coin, receivablefor all public dues. Being thus receivable, while also constantly increasingin quantity at the rate of $28,000,000 a year it has followed of necessitythat the flow of gold into the treasury has been steadily diminished, silverand silver certificates have displaced and are now displacing gold, andthe sum of gold in the federal treasury now available for payment of thegold obligations of the United States and for the redemption of United Statesnotes called "greenbacks," if not already encroached upon is perilouslynear such encroachment. These facts, while they do not admit of differenceof opinion, call for argument. They have been forewarned to us in the officialreports of every secretary of treasury from 1878 till now. They are plainlyaffirmed in the last December report of the present secretary to the speakerof the present house of representatives. They appear in the official documentsof this congress and in the records of the New York clearing house of whichthe treasury is a member, and through which the bulk of receipts and paymentsof the federal government and country pass. These being the facts of ourpresent condition, our danger and our duty is to avert that danger whichwould seem to be plain. I hope that you concur with me, and with the greatmajority of our fellow citizens, in deeming it the most desirable at thepresent juncture to maintain and continue in use the mass of our gold coinas well as the mass of silver already coined. This is possible by the presentsuspension of the purchase and coinage of silver. I am not aware that byany other method it is possible. It is of momentous importance to preventthe two metals parting company; to prevent increasing the displacement ofgold by increasing the coinage of silver, to prevent the disuse of goldin the custom houses of the United States in daily business of the country.While to prevent the ultimate expulsion of gold by silver, which financialcrisis, as these events would certainly precipitate, were it now to followon so long a period of commercial depression it would involve the peopleof every city and every state in the Union in prolonged and disastrous trouble,and a revival of business enterprise and prosperity so ardently desiredand apparently so near, would be hopelessly postponed. Gold would be withdrawnto its hoarding place, and unprecedented contraction in the actual volumeof our currency would speedily take place. The saddest of all would be inevery workshop, mill, factory, store, and on every railroad and farm. Thewages of labor already depressed would suffer still further depression bythe scaling down of the purchasing power of every so-called dollar paidinto the hands of toil. From these impending calamities rests surely themost patriotic and grateful duty of the representatives of the people todeliver them.

I am, gentlemen, with sincere respect, your fellow citizen.

Albany, Feb. 24, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The report of Special Agent Evans of the treasury department on the operationsof the trade between the United States and Mexico as the result of his investigationsunder instructions from the department, has been received by Secretary McCulloch.It sets forth that Mexican customs and regulations are difficult of comprehension,and unnecessarily onerous, no less than seventeen papers or copies beingrequired to be presented on direct importation, and a consular invoice costing$14.56 being required when the value of the goods exceeds $40. Irregularitiesin papers, from whatever cause, render the importer liable to the chargeof double and in some cases treble duty, and petty fines are imposed forthe omission of minor words and misspellings and everything seems to bedone by the custom officers to retard business. Trains carrying goods werebeing delayed, and permits and stamps being required at almost every stageof importation, while the number of examinations required after the goodshave passed the frontier and paid duty, are extremely annoying, independentof delay. On the question of reciprocity, Mr. Evans says: "It is urgedthat congress would relieve this country from gloom and suffering causedby business depression by adopting reciprocity relations with Mexico andthus open a new channel for the sale of American products. Disappointment,in my judgment, awaits such expectations. Of twenty articles to be admittedfree from Mexico under the treaty, fourteen are now free under the generaltariff law. Of the seventy-three articles which may be introduced into Mexicowithout duty, fifty are now free except a charge for package or bulk duty,and twenty-three comprise articles for which there appears to be no marketin Mexico."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

A few days ago, in Hawkins County, Tennessee, James Reynolds put keroseneoil on the top of the heads of his three little children, aged 2, 4, and6 years, for the purpose of killing vermin. Two of the children died withintwo hours. A physician saved the other.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Imagine a man about 40 years of age, of medium height, as lean, as thesaying is, as shotten herring, with a mahogany complexion, cole-black beardand eyes, and three vertical slashes on his pallid cheeks; add to this along cotton shirt as a garment, a narrow turban as a headdress, a pair ofwooden sandals, and in his hand--dry as those of a mummy--a string of ninetyheads, corresponding to an equal number of divine attributes, and you havethe Mahdi. Those who have seen him say that Mohammed Ahmed plays to perfectionthe part of a visionary dervish, waving his head when walking, and murmuringconstant prayers, his eyes fixed on heaven.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The Post-Dispatch publishes a special from Albany which it claimsis perfectly authentic and reliable. It states that Cleveland has alreadyoffered five Cabinet portfolios, and that they have been accepted by thefollowing gentlemen: Bayard, Secretary of State; Manning, the Treasury;Lamar, the Interior Department; Vilas, Postmaster General; and Garland,Attorney General. Cleveland wishes to appoint Whitney Secretary of the Navy,but hesitates to take two Cabinet officers from New York State. It is probable,however, that the portfolio of the War Department will be tendered eitherto Judge Endicott or Patrick A. Collins, both of Massachusetts, with a preferencefor Endicott, who was the Democratic nominee for Governor last Summer, andwho will come nearer than any other gentleman representing the Independentsin the Cabinet. Cleveland, in his inaugural, will take his stand on thetariff question on the plank in the Chicago Convention platform. He willtake a positive position on the silver question in favor of one standard.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The elopement craze may be considered at its climax when young womenelope and marry men for whom they do not care, according to their own confession.This is what a Buckeye maiden has just done. She is a millionaire in herown right--he a roller-skater master. He has, however, been bought off,receiving $15,000, and promising to disappear and never claim his wife.The first chapter is thus ended.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

A Wilkes-Barre funny man offered a tempting wager that Cleveland wouldnever see Washington alive, and that exactly four months after his inaugurationthree-fourths of the business houses of the country would be closed. AsWashington is believed to be permanently dead, and the Fourth of July isa National holiday, the tender seems to be safe.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

San Francisco is once more in convulsions over the Chinese question,because a court has very properly decided that Chinese children cannot beexcluded from the public schools. There are 1,000 or more of them of schoolage in the city, and the thought is a dagger in the San Francisco breast.Their children, they vow, shall never "go to school with the littlepagans."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

There is no immediate danger of ex-Senator Dorsey coming to want. Hisprofits last year from his big cattle ranch were $150,000. He proposes duringthis year to make an extended European tour in company with Bob Ingersoll.It is said to be the intention of the latter to remain several years abroadwith his family.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

SECTION 1. The board of railroad commissioners shall from time to time,upon complaint by any bona fide shipper or other person interested,if they deem such complaint reasonable, investigate the same, and shalldirect such changes in the freight rate charges of any railroad companydoing business in this state, upon any commodity or kind of freight mentionedin said complaint; and the schedule containing such freight rate changesso modified shall be posted by the railroad company thus affected as theboard of commissioners shall direct. Said board of commissioners shall onlike complaint and investigation, also direct any change in the classificationof any commodity or kind of freight, from any class to any other class,as may be deemed reasonable and proper. Before making any change as hereinprovided, either in freight rate charges or classification, the board ofcommissioners shall give at least ten days' notice to the railroad companywhose rates of freight or classification it is proposed to change, and suchrailroad company may appear by its agent or other person and show cause,if any, why such proposed change should not be made; a certified copy ofsuch changed rate of freight charges shall be furnished by the board ofcommissioners to the managing officer of the road affected, and shall takeeffect from such date as said board may direct; and a certified copy ofsuch changed schedule of freight rate charges shall be deemed and takenin all courts of this state as prima facie evidence of the reasonablenessof the freight rate charges of the commodity or kind of freight upon whichsuch freight rate charges have been changed, and the certificate of thecommissioners, together with the schedule of freight rate charges containingthe rates so changed, shall be held prima facie reasonable freightrate charges established by said board of commissioners in all suits againstsuch railroad company whose freight rates have been so changed, until thecontrary is proven.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after itspublication in the official state paper.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Kansas City Journal report of February 27^th: Themembers assembled this morning, wearing solemn countenances. At first sightthey appeared prepared for the final day, and were only lacking their ascensionrobes. The sergeant-at-arms felt his heart thump, for he had used the lastyard of linen in covering the carpets, and here were over 100 members clamoring,as he supposed, for robes to cover their manly forms as they winged theirflight to the region of clouds as the earth sank to nothingness. In groupsthe members assembled, and low toned, earnest voices indicated somethingserious. The speaker found no difficulty in seating the members, as wasusually the case. The chaplain was delighted at the attention he received.Chief Clerk Martin's voice sounded through the hall with more distinctnessthan usual, and he imagined for once that the members would listen to theproceedings of the previous day; but they did not. The journal was stoppedas usual, and then the actual feelings of the members became apparent. Memberafter member arose with calendar in hand, and desired to know what had becomeof certain bills. The committee appointed to revise the calendar had droppedabout 100 bills. To this each man had no objection, so long as his billwas not interfered with. When the printed book was placed in the hands ofthe members this morning, there was a hasty scanning of its contents, andlowering brows were seen all around. The music commenced as soon as thejournal was closed. Efforts were made to resurrect bills that had gone throughthe furnace. Principal among them was the bill making appropriations forthe current expenses of the asylum for idiots and inebriates at Lawrence.This had been marked from the calendar, and the bill making an appropriationfor the erection of a building for this purpose at Winfield had found aresting place among the bills on the third reading. Mr. Roberts of Douglastried to secure an explanation, and also to bring his bill back to its properplace, but failed, as Mr. Greer of Winfield had fastened the clasps toosecurely for them to be loosened. It now looks as though the Winfield fellowshad captured the idiots and imbeciles.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

James N. Merritt, of Wamego, died at Providence hospital in this citylast week, after a lingering illness of several months. At the time of hisdeath there were present his wife and brother. He was down here in daysgone by as one of the brightest and brainiest men who visited the capitalfrom the west and socially was greatly esteemed. He was in the 41^styear of his age. The remains will be forwarded to Kansas tomorrow morningand will be met at Kansas City by his seven brothers.

Senator Plumb deprecates the manner in which Congress has deferred themost important legislation until the closing hours of the session and citesthe civil sundry bill appropriation of $22,000,000, as an example. Whenthe bill shall have passed, he says it will not have had four full day'sconsideration. The Missouri members all voted for the river and harbor billas it finally passed.

The House foreign affairs committee today authorized Mr. Eaton, of Connecticut,to submit to the House a favorable report upon Mr. LeFevre's resolutioncalling for retaliatory action for Germany's restrictions upon Americanproducts.

Mr. Eaton takes the ground occupied by LeFevre's resolution that underour treaties with Germany that country has been favored above all others;that discrimination against American products was in violation of the spiritof these treaties, and that the situation warrants the action suggestedin the resolution.

Owing to heavy payments from the treasury in the present month for pensionsand other obligations, it is estimated that there will be but a small reductionof the public debt for February.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The day was mostly spent in discussion of H. B. 367 amendatory and supplementalto the prohibitory law. Senators Lloyd, H. B. Kelly, White, Blue, Hick,Pickler, Bawden, Buchan, Kellogg, Jennings, and others took part. Many proposedamendments were voted down and one carried, that proposed by Mr. Jenningsmaking the penalty for the first offense not less than $100, and ten daysimprisonment and for subsequent offenses, not less than $200 and thirtydays imprisonment, and in no case over $500 and ninety days imprisonment.Several amendments to make the language more grammatical carried.

House bill (Greer's) 246 to enable cities of the second class to extendtheir corporate limits, was considered in Committee of the Whole and recommendedfor passage.

The concurrent resolution asking the Attorney General to inquire intothe liability of parties for the amounts stolen by Pusey at the Penitentiary,was adopted.

Bill reported by the Committee on elections, changing township electionsfrom February to November, was passed.

The Judiciary Committee made report upon the communication of the AttorneyGeneral covering a proposition from the Union Pacific Railroad Company,messaged to the Legislature by the Governor. The Committee reported a resolutionto instruct the Attorney General to accept the proposition and dismiss thequo warranto proceedings. Mr. Gillett moved that the report beprinted for future consideration. Mr. Slavens explained the necessity forprompt action. The case comes up before Judge Brewer next Tuesday. The counselfor the State ask instruction. The motion to print prevailed.

Mr. McTaggart's H. B. 401, to authorize Cherokee township, of MontgomeryCounty, to issue bridge bonds, passed.

The hour having arrived for special order, being report of special committeeupon the railroad bills. Their report was read. It includes a substitutebill.

Mr. Simpson submitted a minority report, disagreeing with the reportof the majority, because it does not make it the duty of the Railroad Commissionersto fix freight rates. The minority, Simpson and Butterfield, also reporta bill, which was read.

Mr. Hatfield moved that both reports be tabled and printed. Mr. McNallcharacterized this motion as child's play. Mr. Simpson was willing the billsshould be printed, but desired that the printing shall be done at once.Mr. Hatfield accepted an amendment making the bills special order for 3p.m. this day, and his motion to print prevailed.

Mr. Bond's H. B. 112, to punish misrepresentation of breeding stock,passed.

Mr. Beattie's H. B. 311, creating the Twenty-second Judicial Districtfrom the counties of Pottawatomie, Wabaunsee, and Riley; Mr. Sweezy offeredan amendment to include Osage County in this district, which was adopted.The bill was further amended so as to arrange the terms of court in thefour counties, and the bill passed.

Mr. Reeves' H. B. 61, giving Republic County another term of court, wasamended so as to provide for a change of the terms of court in WashingtonCounty, and passed.

Senator White's S. B. 44, creating the Twentieth Judicial District fromthe counties of Rice, Barton, Stafford, and Pratt; passed.

Senator Case's S. B. 209, creating the Twenty-first Judicial Districtfrom the counties of Rush, Ellis, Ness, and Trego, together with severalunorganized counties, was read a third time and voted down.

The Quantrell raid bill was defeated, and an amendment to the Price raidbill voted down.

No. 360 in relation to cities of the first class, was discussed, amended,and recommended for passage in Committee of the Whole

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A memorial was presented from Mr. Albert Perry, one of the Directorsof the Penitentiary, defending himself and the Board against the chargesin the report of the Penitentiary investigation Committee.

A long debate occurred over $50,000 appropriation to the Soldiers Homeat Leavenworth. It was referred to the committee on claims.

After ordering three bills in regard to schools, one in regard to freelibraries, one for organization and compensation of militia, and one inrelation to bridges, to third reading, subject to amendment and debate,the Senate took up the special order, House bill No. 367, the temperancebill.

Senator Jennings moved an additional section prohibiting railroads andexpress companies from transporting and delivering any of the liquors namedin section one, except to druggists holding permits. It fines the companyand imprisons the employees.

Senator H. B. Kelly moved to lay the amendment on the table. Lost. Yeas5, nays 23.

The question was recorded on motion of Senator Jennings.

Senator Jennings spoke earnestly in favor of his amendment. He went intoa recital of his own experience and the experiences of others in his district.The law had been pretty faithfully executed, but the great barrier in itsway was in the fact that when all other means of evading it had failed,the resort was had to securing it through railroads and express offices.There was no reason why common carriers should be able to assist the violatorsof law.

Senator White opposed the motion.

H. B. Kelly, Lloyd, and several others discussed the amendment.

The amendment of Senator Jennings was then lost: yeas 14, nays 21.

Senator Allen offered the following amendment, which was adopted.

Any officer, agent, or employee of any railroad company, express company,or other common carrier, who shall knowingly carry or deliver any intoxicatingliquors to or for any person, to be sold in violation of this act, or theact to which this act is amendatory and supplemental shall be deemed guiltyof a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined not less than$100 nor more than $500, and be imprisoned in the county jail not less thanthirty nor more than sixty days.

House bill No. 5, concerning teachers and studies in common schools,was passed on third reading.

The great bone of contention, the substitute for Senate bill No. 12 (SenatorButler's bill) was taken up, and after considerable wrangling and variousefforts to amend and refer, the Senate adjourned without definite action.

Mr. Sweezy: To authorize Township Boards to levy taxes upon all propertyin their townships. This was advanced to position on the calendar for thirdreading.

Mr. Glasgow: To authorize Republic County to levy bridge taxes.

Mr. Currier: To encourage the training of youth in the mechanic arts.

Mr. Benning: To legalize a certain levy in Atchison County.

Senate Amendments to the House bill to establish a Board of Pardons wereconsidered. Mr. Slavens stated the urgent necessity for the passage of thebill, arising from the large number of applications for pardons left overby the outgoing Governor. Mr. Buck thought it unfortunate that the billhad been changed as it has by the Senate, but hoped the bill would becomea law, as it is the best we can get. The Senate's amendment concurred in.

The House considered the special order in committee of the whole, withMr. Carroll presiding, it being the bills reported by the special committeeon railroad bills.

The question being a choice between the two bills for consideration.Mr. McNall attacked the proviso in the majority bill which gives railroadcompanies the right to take 3½ cents per mile passengers fare whenfare is paid on the train. Also in that the committee have not obeyed theinstruction of the House given when the committee was created, to reporta bill which should make it the duty of the Commissioners to fix maximumrates for each railroad of the State.

The ten minute rule was raised, and it was the sense of the House thatit be suspended during this debate.

The balance of the day was spent in the debate.

The evening was spent in discussing the Price raid bill and resultedin indefinite postponement.

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A concurrent resolution was passed requesting that all soldiers of theUnion army who suffered in rebel prisons during the war be put upon thepension rolls at once, none receiving less than three dollars per monthand those over 55 years of age receiving not less than five dollars permonth.

An amendment to H. B. 367 providing that persons selling or giving intoxicatingdrinks to minors be punished by heavy fine and imprisonment was voted down.

The bill 358 fixing terms of court in the 8^th district passed.

H. B. 367 (prohibitory law amendments) passed 30 to 7.

Substitute for H. B. 12 fixing salaries for county officers passed.

S. B. 265 relating to fees and salaries passed.

A large number of local bills passed.

S. B. 123 establishing a Soldier's Orphan's Home passed.

S. B. 254 and S. B. 264, 259, 186, 168, and H. B. 31 relating to theassessment and collection of taxes passed.

Senate bill 140 concerning railroads passed. (As this is the best theSenate will do in that direction and as the House will probably pass italso we give it in full in another column.)

S. B. 225 in relation to the transfer of real estate passed.

Greer's bill to enable cities of the second class to extend their corporatelimits passed the Senate.

Other bills of a general character passed, viz.: For filing certifiedlists of county offices in the Secretary of State's office; for enrollingand engrossing bills; to make up for deficiency in permanent school fund;relating to unorganized counties; making appropriations in the State HistoricalSociety; to pay counties for expenses for destitute insane; to punish forinjuries to irrigation canals; relating to liens for irrigating lands; toexclude minors from courts where obscene cases are being tried; exemptingcertain property from execution; to provide for improving roads; relatingto regents and trustees of public institutions; relating to county boardsof examiners; relating to furnishing tobacco to minors, and to fix timesof holding courts in Eighth judicial district.

State concurrent resolution to order printed 10,000 extra copies of therevised report of the State Board of Agriculture for 1883 and 1884 was concurredin. This gives each member of the Legislature at least fifty copies fordistribution.

S. C. R. to order 500 copies of the House bill reported by the TemperanceCommittee, as mended by the Senate, was concurred in.

To H. B. 5, relating to the physiology and hygiene in the public schools,was concurred in. The amendments change the law requiring teachers to passexamination in those branches to as to only require that they pass suchexamination in the elements of those topics.

Mr. Roberts discovered an appropriation bill for a new IdioticAsylum at Winfield on the calendar for third reading, and challenged itsposition there. He moved that the bill be remanded to general orders. Theresult was that it was left on third reading, subject to the amendment anddebate.

The proposition of the Union Pacific Railway Company, being the specialorder, was called up by Mr. Clogston. It has appeared in full in the Commonwealth.It has been referred to the Committee on Judiciary, which made report advisingthe Attorney General to accept the proposition. Mr. Clogston moved thatthe report of the Judiciary Committee be adopted.

The report of the Judiciary Committee was unanimously adopted, and theconcurrent resolution covered in that report was adopted.

The following named bills passed the House.

Bill reported by the Committee on Roads and Highways, constituting townshipofficers, Boards of Commissioners of Highways.

Senator Harwi's S. B. 244, to authorize cities of the first-class tomake provision for payments of amounts due on contracts for sewers, bridges,culverts, etc., by levy of taxes or issue of special bonds.

Mr. Jones' bill to authorize the school district at Garden City, FinneyCounty, to vote bonds for a schoolhouse.

In committee of the whole much time was spent in the discussion of billsto provide uniform series of text books for schools.

H. B. 326 grading the salaries of county superintendents with maximumlimit $1,500; minimum $400 in counties having more than 1,500 persons ofschool age, the salary is $600, with $40 dollars more for each additional100 of such persons. Mr. Cannon and Mr. Carroll opposed the bill. The billwas approved by the committee.

Bills making appropriations for State Reform School and Blind Asylum,were approved.

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The Senate committee on claims reported against the $50,000 appropriationfor the Soldiers Home at Leavenworth.

The report of the committee to investigate the liability of parties inrelation to the Pusey frauds having reported the adoption of the reportwas indefinitely postponed.

A bill making Parsons a sub-county seat of Labette County, was advancedon the calendar.

After a great deal of wrangling, and the advancement to third readingof a few local bills, on motion of Senator Buchan, the Senate went intocommittee of the whole on appropriation bills, Senator Allen in the chair.

Senate bill No. 116, an act making appropriations for executive and judiciarydepartment of the State for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1868, and June30, 1887, and for deficiencies from the fiscal year ending June 30, 1884,and June 30, 1885, was taken up, and after a thorough, critical examination,was passed to third reading.

Senate bill No. 284, an act making an appropriation and providingfor the erection of a suitable building for the "Kansas asylum foridiotic and imbecile children," at Winfield, Kansas.

Senator Barker moved to strike out "Winfield" and insert"Lawrence." He said that this proposition would involve the Statein an expense of thirty or forty thousand dollars to no purpose. There wasnow a building suitable for all the purposes of this school, which couldbe obtained for nothing. In these times of depression, there was no necessityfor useless expenditures.

Senator Jennings spoke very earnestly in favor of Winfield, hisown town, and of its advantages. Other Senators spoke upon the subject,but it was hardly serious enough to bring out good speeches. Some of themthought the institution could do no good either to the imbeciles or anybodyelse.

Senator Barker's motion failed, and Winfield was selected asits locality, and the bill was put upon third reading.

Senate bill No. 250, an act to establish the office of State Entomologist,defining his duties, powers, liabilities, and compensation; also makingan appropriation for the salary and office expenses of said officer, fromthe appointment until June 30, 1885, and for the fiscal year ending June30, 1886, and June 30, 1887, passed to third reading.

The rules were suspended, and the House commenced the business of theday with

Substitute bill reported by the Committee on Railroads, to require fencingof railroads, was first read. Mr. Hatfield moved that this bill be passedby until the Senate bill on the same subject shall have reached the House.This prevailed.

Mr. Bryant's H. B. 62, providing for the incorporation of mutual livestockinsurance companies. Passed.

Mr. Collins' H. B. 298, providing for the formation and regulation ofmutual fire insurance companies, passed.

Mr. Corwin's H. B. 100, providing for formation of township mutual fireinsurance companies, was defeated.

Mr. Slavens' H. B. 467, to prevent and punish malicious mischief. Itmakes damage done to animals or property, making a false alarm of fire,pulling a bell rope or setting brakes on a moving train, misdemeanors. Mr.Slavens explained that there are classes of mischief for which the lawsdo not provide a remedy beyond a civil action for damages. The bill passed.

S. B. 306, to repeal a funding act for Leavenworth County of 1879. Itapplies also to cities of the first class. It was passed.

Mr. Reeves' H. B. 3, providing for payment of animals having glandersor farcy which are ordered destroyed by authority of law; with a fifty dollarlimit per head.

A spirited discussion ensued but no order was made in relation to thebill.

To Mr. Burton's bill changing terms of court in the Eighth judicial districtwere concurred in. Also in amendments to H. B. 246, to empower cities ofthe second class to extend their corporate limits. Also in Senate amendmentsto H. B. 191, authorizing Burton County to issue bonds. Also in Senate amendmentsto H. B. to vacate parts of streets in Council Grove.

Senate resolution to adjourn Saturday, March 7, was concurred in.

Mr. Cox's H. B. 448, to empower Wakarusa township of Douglas County tobuild a township hall. Passed.

Mr. Carroll's H. B. 254, to empower the Board of Education in citiesof the first-class to take additional bonds from the City Treasurer. Passed.

Mr. Burton's H. B. 463, to punish the manufacture or sale of impure dairyproducts, butterine, or oleomargarine.

The bill as perfected provides punishment for manufacturing or sellingany impure, or unwholesome articles of food coming under the names of dairyproducts, butterine, or oleomargarine. It also requires manufacturers ofarticles of food made from oleaginous substances other than the productsof pure milk, to label every package on the market with its true name. Thebill passed.

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In committee of the whole the following bills passed.

Senate bill No. 309, an act making appropriation for State Printing forthe balance of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1885, and for the fiscalyear ending June 30, 1886, and June 30, 1887.

Senate bill No. 321, an act making appropriation to pay per diem andmileage of regents, trustees, and directors of the State Institutions forthe fiscal years ending June 30, 1886, and June 30, 1887, and for deficienciesfor the fiscal years ending June 30, 1882, 1883, 1884, and 1885.

Senate bill No. 322, an act making appropriations to the Legislativedepartment.

The committee rose and the report was adopted.

The Senate went into committee of the whole, Senator White in the chair,on the special order, Senate bills 151 and 182, both relating to grand juries.

Senator Jennings explained that the first in order provided for grandjuries at each term, while the last provided for a grand jury at least oneterm in the year.

The motion to have two terms a year carried and the bill was recommendedfor passage.

The committee rose, and the report was agreed to.

Senator Jennings moved to suspend the rules and that the bill fixingthe terms of the District Court in the Thirteenth District be read a thirdtime. Adopted. The bill was read a third time and passed.

The following bills passed a third reading.

House bill No. 470, an act to amend sections 1 and 2 of chapter 102 ofthe session laws of 1883, naming the counties and fixing the time for holdingterms of court in the Eighteenth Judicial District in said counties, andto repeal said sections.

House bill No. 362, an act relating to the Twelfth Judicial District,and providing for the holding of an additional term of court in the countyof Republic.

Senate bill No. 319, an act fixing the terms of court in the Ninth JudicialDistrict, and to repeal chapter 96 of the session laws of 1883.

Four local bills passed a third reading.

Senate bill No. 284, an act making an appropriation and providingfor the erection of a suitable building for the Kansas Asylum for Idioticand Imbecile Youth, at Winfield, Kansas, was passed. The appropriation is$25,000.

On motion of Senator Buchan the Senate went into committee of the wholeon special appropriation bills.

Substitute for S. B. No. 5, an act making an appropriation for the erectionof the State House, and to provide for a special levy of taxes therefor.

Senator Buchan offered an amendment to appropriate $75,000 to commencework on the east wing of the Capital immediately, to be paid out of thegeneral revenue fund, and replaced when the half mill special appropriationprovided for shall be collected. This motion was adopted.

Senator Crane moved to strike "one half mill" and insert "one-fourthmill" as the amount to be collected to pay this appropriation. Themotion was lost, and the bill was ordered engrossed for third reading.

Mr. Finch then introduced the following resolution, which was adopted.

Resolved, That the Speaker appoint a committee of five to draftresolutions expressive of the regret of the House at the untimely deathof the Hon. J. S. Merritt, and that in respect to his memory the House donow adjourn until 2 o'clock p.m. Mr. Anthony desired to amend the resolutionso that it provide that the House go to the depot as a body to be therewhen the train passes conveying the remains to Wamego. This prevailed, andthe House adjourned for that purpose.

Bill reported by the House Committee on Resolutions, requiring railroadsto be fenced, was read a third time and passed.

Senator Green's S. B. 249, authorizing the purchase of more farming landfor the State Agricultural College, passed.

Substitute reported by Committee on Cities of the First Class for H.B. 370, making amendments to charters of such cities, passed.

Senator Harwi's S. B. 8. It amends several sections relative to the policecourt of cities of the first class. Passed.

Mr. Scammon's H. B. 212. To provide for the health and safety of personsemployed in and about coal mines. Passed.

Substitute for S. B. 21, to regulate the practice of pharmacy, creatinga board for that purpose, was amended in two or three points and passed.

Mr. Sweezy's H. B. 474. Giving township boards power to levy taxes uponall the property of the township, whether owned by citizens or non-residents.Passed.

Mr. Carroll's H. J. R. 1, recommending the calling of a ConstitutionalConvention, came next. Lost.

Senate bill 119 was substituted for a House bill on the same subjectand amended. It is for the protection of game. Passed.

Mr. Moore's H. B. 326, raising the pay of County Superintendents of PublicInstruction, was defeated.

Senator Young's S. B. 142, as it was before amended in the House, wasread a third time. It is the bill which was then shorn down to the one provisionof permitting the establishment of a uniform system of text books in thepublic schools. It was passed.

Mr. Glasgow's H. B. 475, a bridge bill for Republic County. Passed.

Mr. Currier's H. B. 202, limiting the amount of schoolhouse bonds tobe voted by school districts to 6 percent, of the taxable property, andrequiring a three-fifths vote; was defeated.

Mr. Slavens' H. B. 216, making a verbal agreement a lease for one year,and not from year to year. It also provides for cancellation of lease whentenant commits waste. Passed.

Mr. Slavens' H. B. 218, providing for vacation of office in cases whereofficial bonds are found to be insufficient by the office whose duty itis to approve such bonds, and when a new bond is not furnished. Passed.

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District Court: Edgar Smith, Plaintiff, against Thomas A. Wilkinson,Anna C. Wilkinson, Hampton S. Story and Story his wife, whose real nameis unknown; Isaac A. Camp, and Camp, whose real name is unknown; Gibbs,Sterrett & Co., Gibbs Sterrett Manufacturing Company, G. and C. Merriam,A. P. Dickey, James A. Loomis, Mr. G. Troup, John W. Curns, Nannie Platter,Administratrix of the Estate of James E. Platter, deceased, Nannie J. Platter,Robert J. Platter, and Jane E. Platter, heirs at law of James E. Platter,deceased, and M. T. Green, E. T. Williamson, and George L. Pratt, partnersdoing business under the firm name and style of the Chicago Lumber Co.

BY VIRTUE OF AN ORDER OF SALE TO me directed and delivered, issued outof the District Court of the 13^th Judicial District of the Stateof Kansas, sitting in and for Cowley County in said State, I will, on the

at the hour of 2 o'clock p.m., of said day, at the south door of theCourt House in Winfield, in the County and State aforesaid, offer at publicsale and sell to the highest bidder, for cash in hand, all the right, titleand interest of the above named defendants in and to the following describedproperty, to-wit: The southwest quarter of section twenty-eight (28) townshipthirty (30) south of Range six (6) East, taken as the property of the abovenamed defendants and will be sold as the property of the above named defendants.

Given under my hand at my office in the City of Winfield, this 3^rdday of March, A. D. 1885. G. H. McINTIRE, Sheriff Cowley County, Kansas.

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New Superintendent, who has no superior in the State. Flour already improvedand more improvements to be made and everything on a boom.

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Will sell you a better farm for less money than any other man in SouthernKansas.

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you want. Give us a call. North Main street, Winfield, Kansas.

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of all kinds in stock. Any one in need of goods in our line will findit to their interest to call on us, as we keep the largest and best assortedstock to be found in the county.

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The Sedan Graphic is evidently disgruntled: "Incendiarismis running rampant and unrestrained at Winfield, while the man who sellsa glass of whiskey or beer in violation of the prohibitory law is hunteddown with untiring efforts by the law and order citizens of that town. Inthe mind of the average citizen of the city on the banks of the placid Walnut,all other crimes pale into insignificance when compared with the sale ofa glass of beer." No law-breaker can find quarters in the Queen City,and the festive fire-bug stands an equal show with any other criminal--asplendid chance to suffer the grip and penalties of outraged justice. Withsuch officials as Sheriff McIntire and Constable Siverd to track the lawless,with County Attorney Asp to prosecute the man who thinks he is a biggerman than the "statoots" will find himself throttled with a vice-liketenacity that will might soon "knock him hout." Unpunished violatorsof law promise to be exceedingly "scarce" in Cowley during thereign of these officials. They have a stalwart, intelligent, law-abidingpeople to back them--a people who recognize nothing but fealty to everyduty and law.

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"Ed Haight, the Courteous county surveyor," says the ArkansasCity Democrat, "has been in town during the week. He thinks thatWinfield is bound to have the proposed canal. It is proposed to get thecity to help with $100,000. The water will be brought from the Arkansas,a distance of some twenty miles. We wish the county seat success in theirnew enterprise. Some years ago some of the very men who are most prominentin this enterprise were laughing at Arkansas City and her ditch."

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S. Kleeman is having the room formerly occupied by J. C. Long remodeledand painted up surprisingly for the reception of his dry goods stock andwill get moved this week. The shelving, counters, etc., are of beautifuland modern design and when Mr. Kleeman gets the room filled with the immensestock he has laid in, he will have an establishment that will be metropolitanindeed--one worthy so rustling, pleasant, and capable a merchant.

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The Arkansas Valley Conference of the Church of the United Brethren inChrist is in session this week at Sedgwick City. Bishop E. B. Kephart, D.D., whom many of our citizens remember because of the able discourse preachedby him in our city two years ago, will preside at this conference. Revs.P. B. Lee and J. H. Snyder have gone to take part in its sessions, consequentlythere will be no preaching at the United Brethren church in this city nextSabbath.

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The annual session of the Grand Lodge of A. O. U. W. of Kansas was heldat Leavenworth last week. Cowley was represented as follows: Winfield, J.F. McMullen and C. C. Green; Arkansas City, I. H. Bonsall and M. N. Sinnott;Burden, Ed Millard; Dexter, W. G. Seaver; New Salem, H. H. Holloway. Mr.McMullen was elected a representative to the Supreme Lodge. The next sessionof the Grand Lodge will be held at Topeka.

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Miss Mattie Harrison left for her home in Hannibal, Missouri, Fridayevening last after a winter's visit with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs.J. C. Fuller. Miss Harrison is a charming young lady of high attainmentsand admirable social qualities, and made many friends during her stay, whor*gret her departure and will look with pleasure for her return.

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In mentioning the Aikin, Poor, and Watts liquor case last week, we werewrongly informed and made the "front" name of Watts, Ed., whenit should have been John H. As this has been construed by many to mean Edward,the sterling young son of Mr. Samuel Watt, of Pleasant Valley, we gladlymake this correction.

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Three days of sunshine and balmy breezes have thawed our people all outand made all buoyant and happy. Real estate men are busy and use soul-stirringeloquence in supporting the prediction that the Queen City and Cowley Countyare to have an unprecedented boom this spring.

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Our spring catalogue will soon be ready for distribution, and we willvisit Winfield this spring with plants, bulbs, seeds, etc., and desire thosewishing anything in our line to wait our coming and make selections fromour stock. We will be at Friend's music store. Exact date later. BristolSisters, Topeka, Kansas.

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The Winfield roller mills will receive next week a Hamilton Corless 200horse power engine. This is the largest engine yet put in a Kansas mill,and will furnish economical and unexcelled power. Messrs. Bliss & Woodwill also attach hominy and corn meal machinery to their mill soon.

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A fine line of residences in the city for sale at prices to suit buyers.Farms for sale in all parts of the county. Insurance written on all classesof insurable property. Money loaned on farms and city property by H. T.Shivvers. Office in McDonald building, 2^nd door upstairs.

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The Democrats of the city were almost paralyzed Monday by the false reportby wire that the man of destiny had been assassinated at Albany. If it hadcome a little later, the "Dem's" would have been just full enoughto take it all as a gigantic joke on first notice.

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Last Tuesday a farmer near town took his spade and went out to see ifthe ground was fit to plow. He dug down fourteen inches, and after the firsteight found the ground full of frost and hard as a brick. He will bet onthe ground hog in the future.

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The entertainment of the Alpha Society at the Opera House Friday eveninglast was highly creditable to all participating--in fact, many pronounceit as fine an entertainment of its kind as was ever given in the city. Itwas novel and unique.

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E. H. Nixon got in from Utica, Iowa, yesterday. He reports the snow abouttwenty inches on the level and lanes blocked by drifts. A very chilly comparisonwith Cowley's glorious sunshine and balmy breezes.

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City Clerk Buckman has enrolled about four hundred names on the registrationbooks of the city, leaving about the same number who should have their namesput on the roll of honor immediately.

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August Kadau's visage is all aglow with rosy-cheeked modesty--his titleis now "papa," and it's a bouncing ten pound boy, which appearedMonday evening last. August is recovering.

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The Southern Kansas railroad is changing the wheels on its cars fromiron to paper. The paper wheels are said to be safer. At any rate most ofthe eastern railroads adopted them some time ago.

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I have sold my interest in the dental office to Dr. H. C. Baily, andtake pleasure in recommending all who wish first-class dental operationsto call on him. Dr. VanDoren.

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The Ladies' Aid Society, of the Presbyterian church, meets on the usualday and hour, this week with Mrs. Henry Brown.

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Wanted. 500 or 600 sheep. C. D. Murdock.

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Mrs. Carrie Legg is convalescing after a serious illness.

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A. H. Jennings is looking after property interests in Sedgwick County.

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Mr. M. H. Markum, of Pleasant Valley, got in yesterday from a week amongTopeka solons.

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Mr. and Mrs. John W. Curns have returned from their New Orleans trip,having enjoyed it immensely.

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Mr. J. L. Ward, one of Vernon's bright young men, has commenced the studyof medicine in Dr. Wells' office.

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Miss Ella Trezise and Addie Hudson are visiting the latter's sister,Mrs. Geo. Bruce, at Cherryvale this week.

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J. P. Short left Wednesday for a few days sojourn at the State Capitol.He was accompanied by his daughter, Miss Edna.

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Rev. F. A. Brady, formerly of Burlington, this State, has located herein the Insurance business. He is officing with C. H. Leavitt.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Mrs. W. J. Wilson and Miss Jessie Millington have been visiting Mrs.W. C. Garvey and others in Topeka during the past week.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Mr. J. A. Goforth, one of Silver Creek's staunchest farmers, made the"hub" his occasional visit Friday and dropped in on the COURIER.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Mr. J. S. Baker got in from Topeka yesterday and reports that the billdividing Tisdale township was defeated in the House, Tuesday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Mr. W. L. P. Burney, a bright young attorney from Harrisonville, Mo.,a friend of Mr. Robert Rogers, is visiting here and may locate.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

G. H. Allen, formerly agent of the Wells Fargo express here, has formeda partnership with Noble Caldwell in the insurance business.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

C. H. Sipe, of St. Louis, president of Millers National Insurance Company,was here this week looking up the export business among our millers.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

A. P. Johnson is spending this week at Red Bluff, a new town in ComancheCounty, in which he is interested and for whose company he is attorney.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

George Stivers came in from Fredonia Saturday for a visit with his sister,Mrs. M. G. Troup, and old friends, looking as handsome and "cute"as ever.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The young son of Squire H. C. Castor, of East Liberty, died Saturdaynight. He was twenty-two years of age and had been married but a short time.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Married, at the residence of the groom's parents, near Winfield, March1, 1885, by Rev. B. Kelly, Mr. J. W. Zauni and Miss Mary E. Burge, all ofCowley County.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Rev. B. Kelly spent the latter part of last week in Topeka, encouragingthe passage of the new Prohibitory law. He thinks it is iron-clad, justwhat we want, and will be easily enforced.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Col. J. C. McMullen returned Sunday from a week at Cedar Rapids, Iowa.He reveled in snow about two feet deep while there and makes a comparisonlargely in favor of "Sunny Kansas."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Mrs. J. C. McMullen left Tuesday for a ten days visit with her daughter,Miss Nellie, who has been attending college in Denver, Colorado, for somemonths past. Mrs. McMullen has a sister residing in Denver.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Mr. J. L. Richardson, of Jones County, Iowa, has been spending a fewdays with his cousin, Mr. F. W. McClellan. Mr. Richardson was called toCowley, by the death of his brother, Edward, which occurred recently atGrand Summit.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Mr. W. S. Shaffer has moved from his old home in Walnut township to Omnia.Mr. Shaffer has been one of Walnut's staunchest citizens, of true blue Republicanprinciples, and his neighbors regret the loss of so wide-awake, active,and influential a man.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Constable H. H. Siverd brought Dr. Samuel Thompson in from Maple City,Tuesday, charged with illegally selling the ardent. The Doctor plead guiltyin Justice Snow's court and got off with one hundred and forty-five dollarsfine and costs. Verily, the way of the transgressor is thorny.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Elder F. M. Rains, State Evangelist of the Christian church, is herethis week assisting Elder J. S. Myers in a protracted meeting. Elder Rains,during his pastorate of our Christian Church in early days, won scores offriends, who always give him a warm welcome. He is a minister of superioreloquence and logic and is doing a world of good throughout Kansas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

James Lukens, a young man who was engaged in Captain Stubblefield's feedstore, was given about fifty dollars, one day last week, to pay off certainbills for his employer. The youth had had the California fever for sometime and pocketing the money he took the train and has not been heard ofsince. He had shown no signs previously of crookedness and was consideredreliable.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Mrs. Emma Smith, sister of Mrs. Henry Brown, left for a future home inDakota last week. In her departure Winfield loses one of its staunchestworkers in every good cause. In the temperance work she was especially unceasing.To such women as Mrs. Smith the world owes much for its advancement in everythingthat leads humanity to a higher and better life.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Judge Gans has invested the following parties with authority to commitmatrimony during the past week: Sullivan Kitch and Minnie Dunn, Isaac Davisand Anna Wooden, Wm. Carver and Christina Wingert, John Munn and MarthaSamples, Chas. Knowles and Ida Carder, Chas. Doty and Sarah Mounts, JonathanYount and Mary Burge, Wm. Eldridge and Laura Anderson, Wm. Parsons and LouisaWhite, F. M. Reed and Anna B. Schnee.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Cedarvale Star: "Mr. James A. Cairns and Mrs. E. D. Garlick,of Winfield, were at this place on last Wednesday and organized a Good Templars'Lodge. They paid us quite a compliment by saying that it was the best lodgethat they had ever helped organize in southern Kansas. We return them manyheart-felt thanks." The parties mentioned speak very highly of thesplendid entertainment given them and of the staunch temperance proclivitiesof the citizens of Cedarvale as exhibited on this occasion.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Mayor and Mrs. Emerson, Mr. and Mrs. Irve Randall, Mr. and Mrs. M. L.Read, Dr. D. V. Cole, and Miss Nellie, Mrs. M. L. Robinson, Byron Rudolph,Will Robinson, Col. Loomis, A. J. Thompson, Grant Stafford, and C. C. Harrisare among those who have got home this week from a delightful trip to theCrescent City. They report the sights of the World's Fair varied and grand.One of the unique things mentioned is a miniature representation of GeudaSprings, surrounded by circulars describing the Western Saratoga.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

H. M. Epler was arrested at Independence last week by Sheriff McIntireand taken to Arkansas City, where he was arraigned before Justice Schiffbauer,and on plea of guilty was assessed seventy-five dollars and costs for stealinga gold watch in the Terminus. Epler is a young man of good appearance andhad all arrangements made to lead to the altar one of Independence's belles,on Sunday last. He seems to have made this break to get the money on whichto commit matrimony. But a purloiner's victim has no sympathy for Cupid.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Mr. John Drury was up from Maple City Monday and told of a bad accidentthat befell R. E. Howe, who runs the mail back from Arkansas City to MapleCity. Howe undertook to cross the Gilstrap ford on Grouse creek Saturdaymorning last, which was badly swollen, and had both horses drowned and himselfand a lady and gentleman passenger barely escaped with their lives. Howedid some heroic work in the icy waters in rescuing the lady. He was familiarwith the ford and noted the high-water register, but the channel had washedout and surprised him.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Rev. B. Kelly closed his first year's appointment at Winfield last Sundayevening in a powerful, fearless, and eloquent sermon--one that receivedthe highest commendation. The Conference for this district meets on the19^th inst., at El Dorado, and if the wishes of the Methodistchurch here, and every citizen in favor of morality and good governmentare carried out, he will be returned unanimously. The Methodist church hasgrown greatly under Mr. Kelly's pastorate and the close of the year findsit entirely out of debt. The influence of such a minister as Mr. Kelly ona community can hardly be estimated, and the unanimous call of our Methodistsfor his return receives a hearty endorsem*nt from all.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Lindsey Jones, a youth of thirteen, who has been under the care of SheriffMcIntire for some months past, was found guilty of petty larceny beforeJustice Snow last week and returned to the State Reform School at Topeka.The lad was homeless, and a pretty tough case. Sheriff McIntire worked onhim in hopes of improvement, but Lindsey didn't straighten to any alarmingdegree and forced the conclusion that the Reform School was the best placefor him. So Mr. A. Gilkey, of Maple City, from whom Lindsey had stolen certainarticles a year ago, preferred the necessary charge. The Reform School willmake a man of him--give him the discipline that every boy needs to fix himfor the battles of life. He will remain there till twenty-one.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Henry E. Asp is just in receipt of a letter from James N. Young, of Chicago,President of the Kansas City & Southwestern Railroad Company, statingthat the material has been purchased and the contracts let for the constructionof that line and that work will commence at Beaumont, Butler County, assoon as the right of way can be obtained. They commence at Beaumont, whichis on the main line of the St. Louis & San Franciso, because the railsfrom St. Louis and the ties from Arkansas can be laid down cheaper therethan at Kansas City. Work will progress both ways from Beaumont, and theprospect is that most of the counties and townships that have voted bondscan be reached in time to fill the stipulations contained therein. Someof the bonds are valid till August, others till June, and those voted inWinfield till May 27. But should it be impossible to reach certain placeswithin the given time, aid will be re-solicited and the work pushed rightthrough. This road is now a sure thing and its early construction meansthat Winfield and Cowley County will receive an impetus that will make hermaterial advancement during the next year unprecedented. Further developmentsof a specific character will be made by our next issue.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Some two months ago Wm. D. Halfhill came to Winfield and being a formerpupil of B. F. Wood was readily recommended and became a partner with Chas.H. Leavitt in the practice of law. But certain traits had sprung in thecharacter of Halfhill since Mr. Wood had known personally of him that cameunawares to the latter gentleman--a little crookedness that astonished thosefamiliar with the early life of Halfhill. About the first of February Halfhillsuddenly vamoosed--summoned, as he would have it, by a Nebraska client.But he went to Wellington, where official telegrams from the east soon reachedhim out. He was wanted for embezzling a large sum from the Indiana WheelCompany, Fort Wayne, and for forging depositions in the settlement of anOhio estate and appropriating the funds.

The Wellington Press has this account of the arrest.

Some weeks ago a nicely dressed and smooth talking man arrived in thiscity from the east, ostensibly on the hunt for a business location. He gavehis name as Wm. D. Halfhill, and represented himself a member of the Ohiobar. He visited several of the neighboring towns, seemingly at a loss toknow where to locate. A short time ago Sheriff Henderson received word fromthe officials of Van Wert County, Ohio, that an attorney, a heavy embezzler,had suddenly decamped from that county, and it was thought he had gone west.Henderson at once "spotted" Mr. Halfhill as the man wanted. Somecorrespondence passed between the eastern officials and Henderson, whenthe latter telegraphed--"Come at once. Your man is here." SheriffChas. Gordon, of Van Wert County, Ohio, promptly responded. He reached thiscity Tuesday morning and immediately hunted up Henderson, and together theystarted out to find their man. Halfhill, who had just returned from Harper,was soon found, and at once recognized by the Sheriff from Ohio, who promptlyarrested him, and fearing a habeas corpus, boarded the noon train and startedfor the east. Halfhill, the embezzling attorney, is also accused of a heavyforgery. He is a rather nice appearing and intelligent man, very tony inhis dress. He was taken completely by surprise, and though Henderson hadbeen "piping" him for several weeks, he had not the least intimationthat the officers were on his track until Sheriff Gordon tapped him on theshoulder. He made no resistance to the arrest.

The partnership between Halfhill and Leavitt was very satisfactory, theformer appearing square in all things. Halfhill applied for admission tothe bar here, but failing, went to Topeka and was admitted there in thehigher court. He was a bright lawyer, a man of generous heart and good socialqualities, and capable of winning a high mark among men. A few weeks beforehe left, the secret to his downfall was discovered--he had formed an attachmentfor the gaming table and its attendant, whiskey. He kept it very secretat first, but investigation unveiled all. He has an accomplished wife andis well connected.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

E. S. Jaffery & Co. vs. Day Bros. & Co. Plaintiffs given leaveto withdraw exhibits attached to petition.

Merrick Thread Co. vs. Lucius L. Day, et al. Judgment by default for$238, and in case defendants do not pay same in 30 days, property to beattached and held on execution.

Monotuck Silk Co. vs. Lucius L. Day, et al. Judgment by default for $1,142.62,and if not paid in 30 days, property to be attached.

Anna Mount vs. John M. Mount. Rule to show cause issued against defendantreturnable on the 16^th of March at 10 o'clock p.m., why he shouldnot pay temporary alimony pending this action, and restraining him in themeanwhile from disposing of his property.

James L. Huey vs. Franklin P. Schiffbauer. Judgment by default for $340.60and interest at 10 percent, with costs.

Ray Warren vs. R. C. Jones, et al. Dismissed at cost of plaintiff.

Traveler's Insurance Co. vs. Mathew S. Hooker, et al. Judgment by default,for $748.80 and interest at 12 percent; foreclosure of mortgage and salewithout appraisem*nt, barring interest of all defendants; proceeds to beapplied first to costs and second to judgment.

James H. Tallman vs. Nathaniel Holden, et al. Judgment by default for$1,184.85 and interest at 12 percent from date; foreclosure of mortgageand sale without appraisem*nt and proceeds to be first applied to costsand then to judgment.

Traveler's Insurance Co. vs. Myron L. Munson, et al. Judgment by defaultfor $886.08 and interest at 12 percent; foreclosure, etc., without appraisem*nt.

W. T. Curtis vs. H. G. Fuller, et al. Dismissed with prejudice.

Appeal of C. W. Gregory from Commissioners. Judgment in favor of plaintifffor $106 and he adjudged to pay costs.

M. P. Rowe appeared before Judge Torrance Friday, received a sentenceof $100 fine and costs for illegally dispensing the ardent, and paid thebill. He was convicted at the beginning of the term but judgment was deferredto give him an opportunity to raise the lucre.

Court adjourned Monday to the April term. Every case on the dockets thatwas ready for trial was disposed of.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

A note has reached the COURIER written in a neat, effeminate hand, whichsays: "I would advise every man and woman in Winfield to get a bibleand read St. John, 8^th chapter and 7^th verse. If youdon't own a bible, just borrow one of your neighbor." Biblical scholarswill recognize the verse: "So when they continued asking him, he liftedup Himself and said unto them, 'He that is without sin among you, let himfirst cast a stone at her.'" From the mole hill that has so recentlyand magically grown into a mountain through certain uneasy parties, thisdoes seem to bear a local application.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Frank Bonham's trial for butchering his mother, brother, and sister inMontgomery County some time ago came off at Independence last Thursday andFriday, several witnesses from Winfield being present. He was bound overto the district court. Public feeling at Independence seemed in favor ofgiving Bonham an opportunity to "pull hemp," but excitement isgradually ceasing. It is certainly the most dastardly crime that ever stainedthe annals of Kansas. The young man who could butcher his mother in coldblood can be nothing but a fiend incarnate.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Arrangements have been made for the institution of an order of "Sonsof Veterans" in Winfield. This move is a worthy one and this orderwill gain a large membership at once. This fraternal organizing of the sonsof the men who bore the brunt of war and made this Union the grandest Nationon earth, will keep up old time loyalty and prove instructive and pleasurable.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The Ladies' California Band, composed of Prof. P. Boulon, his wife, daughter,and two sisters, with a male member not related, held forth at the rinkthe latter part of last week. Their music was unique and charming.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Uncle Wesley Paris is arranging to start his street sprinklers as soonas there is dust enough. He has rigged two wagons and will run both if patronagesufficient is extended.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

There will be an examination of applicants for teachers' certificatesin the East Ward School building on the 14^th inst., commencingat 10 o'clock a.m.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

For Sale. On the Fair Grounds, Winfield, Kansas, 20 head of fine cross-bredyearling Galloway bulls. J. Wade McDonald.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The south bridge has received a splendid new floor.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

About five hundred Oklahoma boomers are now camped at Arkansas City,expecting to move for the promised land today. But four hundred of UncleSam's troops have a keen eye on them and their prospects for a move arenot flattering. It is supposed to be the intention of Hatch to form a picketalong the line of the Territory and make it warm for any boomer who undertakesto cross. Another discouraging feature is the arrest by Deputy U. S. MarshalRarick, yesterday, of Couch and thirteen other leading members of the colony,on a warrant from U. S. Commissioner Sherman. The arrested were taken toWichita immediately for a hearing before t he Commissioner. Disappointmentseems to stare the boomers in the face, and many predict that this rallywill be abandoned and the campers disperse for their several homes. UncleSam seems to have them in a deep hole this time. The charge against Couchthis time is treason.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

A writer from Winfield in the Kansas Farmer, on the subjectof forestry, seems to be "off." Upon examining the papers readbefore the recent Farmers' Institute in this city, I am disappointed innot finding a more comprehensive treatise on the subject of forestry. Atheme of vital importance not only to the entire people regardless of professionor calling, a question of as broad a bearing upon the economic, political,or social interests of the State, as any subject related to agriculturein all its grand catalogue of relative arts and industries." An examinationof the report of our Farmers' Institute, which appeared in detail in theCOURIER, will show a highly meritorious and comprehensive paper on forestryby Jas. F. Martin, and an elaborate discussion of the subject. Not onlydid the Institute treat the subject ably, but a series of articles fromMr. Martin are now being published that are of incalculable benefit to ourproperty owners and are receiving high encomiums for their pithiness. Mr.Martin was deterred from preparing his third article for this issue, owingto sickness in his family. It will appear next week.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The City Legislature met in regular convention Monday evening.

A. G. Wilson was appointed weighmaster for the six months ending September5, 1885. The City Clerk was instructed to procure two additional ballotboxes.

The following bills were ordered paid.

T. J. Partridge, work on streets, $1.50; Job Barron, same, 50 cents;City officers salaries for February, $131,58; J. C. McMullen, rent firedepartment building for February, $25; John Morris & Co., two civildockets, $44; A. H. Doane & Co., coal, $20.50; Frank W. Finch, boardingcity prisoners, $54.75; Black & Rembaugh, printing, $30.75.

The following pauper bills were referred to the County Commissionersfor payment.

Claims of J. P. Baden, amounting to $76.65; A. H. Doane & Co., coal,$161.40; J. N. Harter, medicines, $8.20; Bryan & Lynn, groceries, etc.,$20.25; Rinker & Cochran, groceries, etc., $5; M. M. Finch, rent ofhouse for Hiram Anderson, $8.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The County Fathers met in special session Monday and Tuesday. Variousbids and plans for a county poor house were considered and the matter laidover to the April term. Tax of 1884 was remitted on south half of northwestquarter and west half of southwest quarter, section 11, township 31, range4, the same having been erroneously assessed. Personal property tax on $388assessed to Becker and Backastow was also remitted. T. A. Blanchard wasgiven care of paupers for the coming year. Order was made for the summoningof Joseph Garris and George W. Roberts to appear before board on the fourthday of its April term. The Sheriff was instructed to return personal propertywarrant in his hands to county treasurer against A. P. and A. G. Carmanand take out an alias and hold same till April sitting of the board.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

On Wednesday of last week there passed away at his home near Tisdaleone of the oldest pioneers of Kansas, Mr. Benjamin Bell, aged eight-eight.Mr. Bell was the father of Mrs. Capt. Stubblefield, of this city, and hislife embraces a history that if written in detail would make an interestingvolume indeed. He was born in Westchester Co., N. Y., in 1797. In 1804 hemoved with his parents to Ohio. Before Kansas was admitted to the sisterhoodof States, he settled on her soil with his family, a wife and seven children.One of his sons fell a victim to the notorious Price raid, in 1864, andthe remaining son, William M., was the support of the aged father in hisdeclining years.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Frank L. Crampton and George Backastow have purchased the interest offAxtel & Seward in the Central hotel and took charge Tuesday. Frank andhis sister will have charge, George still remaining on the farm. Frank hasbeen in the restaurant business in Winfield for years and has a golden reputationas a caterer. He is one of the brightest and most thoroughgoing young businessmenin the city, and though this is a big enterprise, he will make a splendidsuccess of it. The Central will have no superior while under Frank's management.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The meeting of the Winfield Enterprise Association at the Court Housetonight promises to be very interesting and develop many things that willconduce to the upbuilding of the Queen City and Cowley County. A reportas to the feasibility of the canal scheme, a canning factory, our prospectivecollege, a Farmers' Co-operative Milling Association, and many other matterswill come up. Let every member of the Association be present.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

I notice in the last COURIER a correction of the minutes of the lastregular meeting of the Horticultural Society, by friend Pierson. In thesereports I endeavor to give the gist of the discussions of the members, andin the cross-fire of queries and answers, may do a member an injustice inmy reports, which will be cheerfully corrected at the next meeting of theSociety. A shorthand report verbatim of the proceedings of ourorchardist would be valuable, and obviate these omissions and misstatementsthat will occur in long hand or ordinary notes. Whether Mr. Pierson wasunderstood to say that the peach was grafted on the maple or sycamore isnot material, the truth or fact he wishes our farmers to note is that suchstocks are worthless as peach stock--the peach for dry sandy soils can begrated on the bitter almond, for wet soil, on the plum, which, in a measuremakes it a dwarf. "Varieties of the same species unite more freelythan species of the same genus, than genera of the same natural order, beyondwhich the power does not extend." We cannot graft an apple on a peach,nor a cherry on a pear; but the pear, the apple, quince, medlar, thorn,and mountain ash--a naturally allied group, may, with more or less success,be worked upon one another.

Mr. Pierson's second exception fails, I think, in point. The class Morrelloincludes those he names, also the valuable seedlings of Dr. Kirtland andother known valuable varieties, of which we might mention Reine Hortense,Belle Magnifique, Rumsey's Late, etc. That the Dukes will become esteemedby many of our growers, I doubt not, as trial trees have done well and arebearing fine crops of fruit in my own neighborhood, an acquisition to thedessert table most earnestly desired by all lovers of fine fruit. JacobNixon, Secretary.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Rev. B. Kelly will assist in the dedication of a new Methodist churchat Peabody next Sunday. His pulpit here will be filled by Rev. W. H. Harris,of Arkansas City.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

An account book containing as owner the name of U. O. Case has been foundand left at this office by Marshal Herrod. The owner can get it by calling.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Married, at the Baptist parsonage, on the 1^st inst., by Rev.J. H. Reider, Chas. F. Doty, and Sarah G. Mounts, both of Cowley County,Kansas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The Band of Hope will meet at the Baptist church Friday afternoon at3 o'clock, when Rev. Reider and others will address them.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Rev. Reider will deliver another sermon to the young people of Winfieldon next Sabbath evening. All are most cordially invited.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

A sign of spring has appeared that knocks the ground hog clear out ofhis burrow--the small boys are playing marbles.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Wanted immediately: one hundred good teams to haul freight. Good pay.Address Searing & Mead, Arkansas City, Kansas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

George Frazier, prominent among the rustling citizens of Udall, was inthe metropolis Tuesday and Wednesday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Elery C. Martin made final settlement with the Probate Court, Tuesday,in estate of Wm. Martin, deceased.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

An adjourned meeting of the Cowley Co. Farmers' Institute was held atthe COURIER office Saturday last, with President S. P. Strong, of Rock,in the chair. Secretary F. A. A. Williams read minutes of last meeting,as previously published, and they were adopted.

Dr. C. Perry, from the committee on plan of work, made his report. Thefollowing is the plan of work adopted.

1^st. The President shall appoint standing committees fromthe board of directors consisting of one member each, who shall have incharge particular branches of agriculture; said committees shall collectall the facts and experiences practicable, in relation to their respectivebranches, and shall report the same to this Association when called uponby the President. Said committees shall be arranged as follows.

1^st. Committee on Horticulture.

2^nd. Soils and cultivated crops.

3^rd. Grasses.

4^th. Breeding and marketing of stock.

5^th. Dairying.

6^th. Farm buildings.

7^th. Forestry.

2^nd. The secretary or other person appointed by the Presidentshall collate from the report such facts and information as shall be beneficialto the members of this Association and shall publish the same in any countypaper that will do the same free of expense.

3^rd. The program for the winter meeting to be carefully arrangedand the subjects selected for consideration fully discussed, and reliancemust largely be placed upon local talent.

The following are the standing committees as appointed by the President.

On Horticulture, R. T. Thirsk.

Soils and cultivated crops, Dr. Perry.

Grasses, F. A. A. Williams.

Breeding and marketing stock, F. W. McClellan.

Farm buildings, G. L. Gale.

Forestry, J. F. Martin.

The next thing taken up was the report of the Committee on grass seed.The Secretary reported the rates received from several eastern and westernfirms, and the chairman of the Committee (Mr. Martin) reported confidentialrates given to members of the Institute by our Winfield seed firm, Brotherton& Silver. He also showed a sample of English blue grass seed, and statedthat on the farm of Mr. Hanna, north of Winfield, it had succeeded well,sown on rocky knolls and tramped in by stock; would keep green all summerand was much preferred in Kentucky and in parts of this State where it hadbeen tried, to Kentucky blue grass.

The action taken on the report of the Committee on grass seed was aboutas follows.

That the Society desired to patronize home institutions and will ordergrass seed of them if it can do so at reasonable rates. Any parties desiringto order through the Institute can correspond with the Secretary, who, withthe other officers of the Association, have power to transact such business.

The Secretary was requested to notify the directors of the differenttownships of their election, and request them to form township organizationsas provided in the constitution.

Adjourned to Saturday, March 21, at 1 o'clock p.m.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The following named township and city assessors of Cowley County metpursuant to law at the office of the county clerk Monday last to agree upona basis of valuation for 1885.

Beaver township: J. W. Browning

Bolton: J. A. Scott

Cedar: J. F. McDowell

Creswell: F. M. Vaughn

Dexter: S. H. Wells

Fairview: J. B. Carson

Harvey: Elisha Haines

Liberty: J. C. Cochran

Maple: J. H. Willis

Ninnescah: J. L. Steward

Pleasant Valley: D. S. Sherrard

Richland: Willis Wilson

Rock: J. E. Gorham

Spring Creek: H. S. Libby

Silver Creek: J. R. Tate

Sheridan: Wm. M. Day

Silver Dale: P. F. Haynes

Tisdale: D. Bovee

Vernon: H. H. Martin

Walnut: J. C. Roberts

Winfield City: T. B. Myers

Arkansas City: James Benedict

The meeting organized by electing James Benedict, chairman, and H. H.Martin, secretary.

J. F. McDowell, J. C. Roberts, Elisha Haynes, H. H. Martin, and F. M.Vaughn were appointed a committee to draft and submit a basis of assessment.The following basis was reported, discussed, and adopted.

1^st grade: $75 to $100

2^nd grade: $50 to $75

3^rd grade: $25 to $50

4^th grade: $15 to $25

Good driving and race horses: $25 to $90

Three year old colts, 1^st grade: $30 to $60

Three year old colts, 2^nd grade: $15 to $30

Two year old colts: $10 to $40

Stallions, 3 years old and over: $100 to $500

Yearling colts and ponies: $5 to $15

1^st grade: $72 to $100

2^nd grade: $50 to $75

3^rd grade: $25 to $50

4^th grade: $15 to $25

Jacks: $100 to $400

Jacks under 3 years old: $20 to $75

Jennies any age: $10 to $20

Cattle, 1^st grade, work oxen: $30 to $35

Cattle, 2^nd grade, work oxen: $15 to $30

Cattle, 4 years and upward: $10 to $30

Cattle, 3 year old steers: $10 to $25

Cattle, 2 year old steers and heifers: $7 to $12

Cattle, 1 year old: $4 to $10

Domestic cows, 1^st grade: $20 to $30

Domestic cows, 2^nd grade: $10 to $20

Thoroughbred bulls and cows: $60 to $100

Common bulls (grade) $10 to $40

Sheep, 1^st class: $.75 to $1.00

Sheep, 2^nd class: $.25 to $.75

Rams: $1 to $12

Hogs per head: $1 to $3

Pork per 100 pounds: $3

Goats: $1

Corn per bushel: $.10 to $.15

Wheat per bushel: $.20 to $.35

Oats per bushel: $.10 to $.15

Millet, flax, and hungarian per bushel: $.15

Threshers, 1^st class, 50 percent off first cost.

Threshers, 2^nd and 3^rd class, at the discretionof assessors.

Harvesters and headers, 50 percent off first cost.

Reapers and mowers, 40 percent off first cost.

Wagons and carriages 30 percent off first cost.

All other machinery at the discretion of the assessors.

By 1^st class of any of the above mentioned stock is meantsuch as would be considered first-class throughout the State.

The County Attorney advised the assessors to defer commencing to assessuntil Monday next, as there was a probability that the bill now before theLegislature making it the duty of assessors all over the State to assessall property at its cash value, would pass.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

One of Fairview township's sterling ladies furnishes the COURIER thefollowing gems found here and there.

If there be no enemy, no fight; if no fight, no victory; if no victory,no crown. SAVANUR.

Let patience have her perfect work and bring forth her celestial fruits.Trust God to weave in your little thread into the great web, though thepattern show it not yet. GEORGE McDONALD.

[Could not read the next one clearly.]

Peter stood more firmly after he had lamented his fall than before hefell inasmuch that he found more grace than he lost. S. AMBROSE.

My soul cheer up; What if the night be long! Heaven finds an ear whensinners find a tongue; My tears are morning showers; Heaven bids me say,when Peter's co*ck begins to crow, 'tis day. QUARLOS.

"The ideal womanhood is the one that grows finer and sweeter withthe years; whose charms do not decay, but mature. Surely womanhood shouldbe fairer and sweeter than girlhood. LILIAN WATERING [?].

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

In registering your name at a hotel, which is the more proper: Mr. andMrs. J. C. Blank, Mr. J. C. Blank and lady, or Mr. J. C. Blank and wife?

Which is the more proper: Thanks, or than you? In other words, is itever proper to say thanks? Should it not always be the graceful "thankyou?"

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Mr. A. J. Burgauer of the Bee Hive, is home after six weeks' travel.He visited a number of eastern cities and returned via New Orleans.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The bi-weekly hop of the Social Club, Friday evening, will again haveItalian music as one of its charms.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

H. Beck, the photographer, has returned from a month in the frigid atmosphereof his old Ohio home.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The ladies of the W. C. T. U. will meet with Mrs. Strong on Tuesday,March 10^th, at 3 o'clock p.m.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Abe Steinberger was over from Grenola Sunday, and reports his Hornetprospering finely.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Ed. Bourdette has sold his Ninth Avenue lunch room to Chas. H. Sweet.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Farming will soon begin.

Beautiful March is again with us.

Sam Christolear has not sold the farm.

Elmer Curfman was out prospecting last Sunday.

Bert Limbocker was out visiting in this neighborhood.

W. M. Limbocker is wintering a fine herd of cattle.

Mr. Hollingsworth has rented his farm and quit farming.

After two weeks illness J. H. Curfman is able to be out again.

W. B. Weimer, of Grand Summit, was seen in our midst last week.

Mr. Pugh's have moved to Clark County to live in their new home.

Squire Burton is offering his farm for sale. He expects to go to Missouri.

George McCarl will move over on Tom Johnson's place for the summer.

Alfred Savage was seen wending his way toward J. H. Curfman's on lastSabbath eve, as usual.

John Wm. Cottingham has purchased 160 acres of prairie land of Mr. Larimer,which he will enclose as a pasture.

H. S. Wallace closed his school on last Wednesday. After the bitter taskwas through then came the sweet in the way of a treat to the scholars witha feast of candy. In the evening Mr. Wallace had his scholars give an exhibition.The following is the program: Salutatory, Isaac Curfman; Harry and the GuidePost, Minnie Ehret; For a boy and girl, Eddie and Jennie Baird; Don't giveup, George Christolear; Dialogue, Albert Curfman and Hattie Orr; Speechof a daisy, Eddie Baird; A Sonnet, Ida Orr; Some leading questions, Johnand Chas. Baird; Sucking Cider, Maggie Orr; Temperance address, Frank Curfman;Tick Tock, Eddie Orr; Oration, Isaac Curfman; The Wonderful Sack, JennieBaird; Johnnie Rich, Ambrose Caufman; What I Learned at Home, Eddie Orr;Pride, Hattie Orr and Jennie Baird; A Poor Old Maid, several girls; A GuardianAngel, Clara Caufman; The two Teachers, Minnie and Carrie; Playing Doctor,A. Caufman, Oscar and Jennie; Hoe your own row, George Ott; The Miser, JoshuaWallace; Song, Mr. and Mrs. Christolear; Give the little boys a chance,Four small boys; Warreous [?] address, Charlie Wallace; Old Heads on YoungShoulders, M. Curfman, Mary Orr, Jennie Craine, A. Caufman, and H. S. Wallace;The Evergreen Mountain, Minnie Larimer; Valedictory, Eddie Baird. The exhibitionclosed and all went home feeling it was good to be there.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Our town is enjoying plenty of entertainments.

Prof. Boulon's Concert Company were here Monday night.

The fascinating drama, "The Rough Diamond," will be presentedat the next lyceum.

Sherman Glassco*ck, of Grenola, formerly a resident of this place, wasin town over Sunday.

Miss Mary Berkey and Miss Rose Pierce are talking of teaching a summerterm of school here.

Preaching next Sunday at 11 a.m. Rev. Knight's farewell address; alsofarewell of the choir probably.

Mrs. Berkey, of Winfield, was in town Friday visiting her daughter, Mary,who is teaching the primary department in the schools.

The second entertainment of the Lyceum was given last Friday night andwas well attended. The singing was the feature of the evening. The dramawas short but good.

There came very near being no church services last Sabbath evening, buta few enterprising spirits took the matter into their hands and serviceswere held, although a little late.

The senior class in the high school numbers three members: Miss EffieYoung, Miss Lulu Burden, and Arthur Brooks. The graduating exercises willbe held in about four weeks in the evening of the last day of school, andwill be the first ever held here. This is a long step toward the advancementof our schools and will be of more benefit than any other thing. Next yearwith more rooms and more pupils a still more thorough course of gradingshould be insisted on and carried out.

The Library Association is negotiating for a couple of lots on whichto build, and has about decided on two on Main St. north of the postoffice.The building erected will be forty feet wide by sixty feet deep, and builtof wood with a stone front. There will be a fine stage at one end and thelibrary cases around the wall; so that it can be used as a hall whenevernecessary. One end will be partitioned off with folding doors, to be usedas a Reading Room when the hall is not in use for entertainments. Aboutnine hundred dollars of the capital stock has been taken, so that it isprobable the building will be commenced as soon as the proper arrangementscan be completed.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Mr. Murry is building a new granary.

Miss Jackson is a guest at Mrs. McMillen's.

Mr. Grieves and family are living in the Bovee house.

Stock brought a good price at Mr. Bovee's sale.

Mr. C. H. Miller is entertaining his brother from Indiana.

Two men from Arkansas City are in this vicinity buying corn.

Mr. Calvert had the misfortune of breaking one of his legs lately.

Miss Davenport, of Winfield, was a guest in the Lucas manor lately.

Mr. A. W. McMillin had some corn shelled this week; also J. W. Hoyland.

Mr. W. P. Hoyland is entertaining his brother-in-law, Mr. Everett, ofIllinois.

Mr. and Mrs. Woodle, also Miss Hoyland, of Burden, were guests of oursthis week. Miss Caston also made visits to Misses Dalgarn, Cayton, and Olivia.

Widow Gilmore had a pleasant little party for her children before herdaughter, Mrs. Douglass, stated for her new home out west. All present seemedto enjoy it, as they report a fine time.

Mr. Baker was elected representative from this town and sent to Topekaon business in the interests of the township. We hope he will work our causewith vigor and vim and gain the desired end.

Mr. Grieves and his good wife gladdened friends in Salem and vicinityby their presence recently. They are anxious for some of their old friendsand neighbors to seek homes in the west and gain be neighbors to them.

One case of hydrophobia to report. The dog belonging to Ed. Condert seemedsick and stupid, and on being shut up soon showed unmistakable signs ofthat terrible disease and was killed to prevent danger to anyone.

The members of the G. A. R. Post had their supper the 24^thand a whole army of hungry mortals partook of their hospitality and helpedswell the money in the G. A. R. treasury. A good time, fine, excellent,etc., are the reports we hear. Sorry I was not there.

Mr. and Mrs. Douglass, with their little family, left their Salem homefor one near Harper. May they find their new home as pleasant as the old,and may new friends prove true. Mr. John Gilmore, also Mr. J. M. Hutchinsonhave gone to Harper with the goods of Mr. Douglass.

A wedding lately, but I cannot tell the names, as they are strangersto me, but if told to name them should say Mr. Winter and Mrs. Summer, asthe groom is a brisk, elderly gentleman and the bride a "charming youngwidow." The boys gave them a fine serenading.

School at the old Salem district closed on Friday. The exercises weregood, and the teacher in his glory led his happy students in some of theexercises. Plenty of visitors to fill the house. Mr. Carroll has given excellentsatisfaction and will remain a welcome Salemite until the close of the nextterm, commencing March 15^th. He will be sadly missed when heleaves for new fields of labor.

Mr. Watsonberger drew a set of silver plated knives with his can of bakingpowder. The Doctor now has garden and flower seeds to sell and says allthe neighbors can find plenty of good seed there this spring and thus savethemselves the trouble of sending off or going to the metropolis. I think,Mr. Editor, that Dr. Irwin will give you a free seat at least, to witnessthe drawing of pretty articles you have advertised free for him. Pass aroundthe powder.

You all know the Cowley County Teachers' Institute was recently heldat Salem and there were teachers there from different places and on Fridayevening an entertainment was given and oh, such a crowd. I for one feltnervous about the safety of the floor, for the hall was fairly packed. Theprogram was excellent, but on account of the crowded house and tiresomepositions of some of the audience, it was not fully carried out that evening.The recitation, "Monas Waters," by Miss Stretch, was splendid.Prof. Gridley read an excellent paper he had prepared, on "reading."The American "snap" is in his manly composition and flashes fromhis eyes. Prof. Davis favored us with an excellent little speech. Shortbut good. Members of the Salem school, under the careful training of theirexcellent teacher, Mr. W. H. Lucas, were on hand with songs, declamations,and dialogues, and all are deserving of praise. Will not try to mentionall their names. Doctor Downs also held the audience with his good oration,the subject "Thought." "The old folks at home," wasrepresented by the Misses Gilmore and Crow and Gilmore Brothers. Handsomedarkey ladies and gentlemen they made. How I wished for a pencil and paperto take notes that none might be slighted, but alas for the glory of somegood little Salemite, for I cannot remember everything--yet know all pleasedme. On Saturday the teachers with their energetic Superintendent (to whomwe had listened so attentively on Friday evening) met again to give andreceive instruction. Morning, afternoon, and evening sessions were wellattended and it was truly good to be there. All of the good things in thislife cannot be fully enjoyed and when I returned to my quiet home on Saturdayevening, although I became very ill, yet I did not regret attending, forI learned many things and perhaps would not have suffered less had I remainedat home. The evening session I hear was even better than that of Fridayevening, and those present more comfortably seated and a "delightfultime" is the verdict of those present. Mr. Rowe, of Cambridge, waspresent with three of his lady pupils under his wing. Where the teachersfrom abroad were entertained, I cannot tell. Come again teachers and Superintendent.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The following resolutions were adopted by the Teachers' Association atNew Salem.

Resolved, That we encourage the use of the course of study preparedby the State Superintendent of public instructions, by adopting it in ourschools and conforming to all of its requirements.

Resolved, That we recognize the need of a good school libraryin each district in the County, and that we assist in the organization ofthe same in our respective districts.

Resolved, That we recognize the efforts of our County Superintendentin the work of the Association, as well as his faithful discharge of allhis other official duties.

Resolved, That we extend our thanks to the patrons of the NewSalem school and their teacher, Mr. Lucas, for the cordial welcome theygave us and their hearty cooperation in our work.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Mr. Henry Rogers is very sick.

Mr. Charles Huston's children are sick with whooping cough.

A series of meetings commenced at the Methodist church Sunday.

There was a social party at Mr. Lacey's last Thursday evening; everyoneseemed to enjoy themselves.

The Pleasant Valley school closed last Friday. They celebrated the daywith a dinner and recitations in the afternoon.

Mr. Willett will have a sale Monday, after which the young ladies willstart for their old home in the east. Their many friends will be sorry tosee them go.

Mr. Gosway and family have returned from Illinois, where they went lastfall. That is the way when people leave Kansas; they want to come back ina short time.

Mr. Robert Pratt had a sale last Friday. Our old bachelor wasn't thereto buy any more milch cows, but Mr. Lacey was there and bought about twodozen flower pots. He must be going into the floriculture business.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The Lord be thanked for this sunshine.

L. Guthrie has sold his fat cattle and is now in Illinois on a visit.

Corn is now selling at 50 cents and not much to be had at that price.

Farmers are cutting and breaking stocks preparatory to commence plowing.

Bud McCarty and family have rented C. M. Aley's farm: the old Ashworthplace.

Some of our farmers are losing some of their cattle for want of moreand better feed.

Capt. Hale is still around and says he is looking for some old "gal"to make life more pleasant for him.

Daniel Ramey, living near that twin man, Rigny, has had a cow to bringforth twin calves. Verily, the Flint Ridge is more productive than it hashad credit for being.

Your correspondent has interviewed quite a number of our voters and theymost all say they will not vote any more railroad bonds, since the D. M.& A. went back on them.

Uncle Johnny Kanaday has been investigating the internal economy of ahand corn sheller, and the consequence is a pet finger. I heard that saidUncle Johnny killed one of his work hogs last week.

Fink Miller and a Miss Hosler were married Sunday, Squire J. B. Gravesofficiating. J. B. was more excited, they say, than Fink. This was J. B.'sfirst undertaking of this kind. Keep cool, Mr. Graves.

We would like to see that old Farmer Markum, and see if we could notcatch some of his enthusiasm. Why, he just takes the cake. "He is soyoung, and yet so fair." We think experience far surpasses theory,Mark, so go slow and listen more and gives us less chin music.

The Cedar Creek lyceum is grappling with such questions as "Artand nature," "Female suffrage," and next Saturday eveningit will decide the loan agent's fate by discussing whether or not he isa benefit to the State of Kansas and to the people in general to borrowmoney, giving mortgage security, etc.

Since our voting precinct cast the largest percent of Republican votescast for J. G. Blaine and the whole ticket last fall, I think we shouldat least command decent respect. Our county officers never visit our fairvalley either in the performance of their official duties nor in their moretrying days, viz: When they are making the canvass of the county askingfor votes. We have been trying for six months to get Prof. Limerick to comeover and settle a school division trouble, and we have always failed. Wewill vote other than for the Republican ticket if this thing is not remediedin the future.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

J. B. Harden, of Dexter, was on our streets Saturday.

Mrs. Headrick is just recovering from a slight attack of lung fever.

A brother of Mr. Limerick is sinking very rapidly from consumption.

Mrs. Frazier is confined to her room by some kind of a lingering disease.

The creeks all around us are up; Grouse has been past fording for severaldays.

The health of the community generally has been good, but some sicknessprevails in the neighborhood.

We have preaching and Sunday School every Sabbath. Our S. S. is prosperingunder the superintendency of Mr. Wilkinson.

We select the COURIER for our representative medium because we believeit is read by the most people and that it is decidedly the best paper.

Muddy? Yes, we are having a little mud, though in many places the roadsare duty, i.e., upon the hills, and in most places too muddy to be traveled.

Dr. A. C. Jones arrived in town last evening from Chicago, where he hasattended medical lectures all winter. We hope the Doctor has come to stay.

J. P. Craft and son, Doc, of Brennon, have been visiting friends andrelatives at this place for several days. J. P. says that families who wentwest last fall with but little or no means have suffered from cold and povertygreatly during the winter. They speak in high praise of Brennon and surroundingcountry.

Miss Allie Harden came over from Burden Friday evening and remained overSunday. Miss Allie is one of Cowley's best teachers and is getting in goodwork at Burden.

The weather is very pleasant, and from the number of plows and otherfarming implements we have noticed at the blacksmith shops we suppose thefarmers are getting ready to begin farming at an early date.

The Christian denomination organized a class at the schoolhouse Sunday.They believe in taking a little wine for the stomach's sake, so the preachersaid when he was making known the acquirements an elder of their churchshould have.

After an illness of three weeks, Miss Elda Kinley, daughter of AmbroseKinley, was called to her long resting place Monday. Miss Elda is the samewho attended the Normal in your city two years ago; was a bright, promisingyoung lady, full of life and vitality, but in three short weeks the grimdestroyer has left her an inanimate being. The bereaved parents have thesympathy of the entire community. The funeral services took place from theWindsor schoolhouse Wednesday at 11 a.m., after which her remains were laidin the Weaverling cemetery.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Miss Mattie Rittenhouse spent Saturday in Burden.

Mr. J. L. Higbee and G. W. Gardenhire spent Wednesday in Winfield.

Mr. W. S. Rigden left Wednesday for Sparta, Illinois. He expects to begone several weeks.

Mrs. McCaleb, nee Laura Gardenhire; who has been visiting herparents in this city, returned to her home in the Nation Friday morning.

The young folks of Torrance spent a very pleasant evening at Mr. Gardenhire'sone night last week.

Mr. Long, of Coffeyville, is stopping in our city. I have not learnedhow long he will stay, but hope it will be long.

Mr. O. C. Branson, of Eureka, is visiting his brother, Lincoln. He isquite a dandy and we hope he will visit us often.

Mr. Will and Ab. Taylor, who have been spending the winter in Sparta,Illinois, returned last night to their home in Torrance, much to the joyof their many friends.

Rev. Warren has been holding an interesting series of meetings in ourtown the last week. And I am informed they will continue through this week.Rev. Tull, of Cambridge, conducted the service Sunday evening.

Quite a number of young people from Torrance and Dexter gave Mr. H. R.Branson a surprise party last Friday night. All present seemed to enjoythemselves. Mr. and Mrs. Branson done all in their power to make the eveninga pleasant one. All left knowing just where to go for fun.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Sabbath School at half past nine every Sabbath.

F. M. Rains will preach at Tannehill Thursday night.

Mr. William McCullough will rent his farm and go west.

M. C. C. Hammond will move to his Sumner County farm.

There has been some excitement about the prohibitory law, but all isquiet about Tannehill.

We welcome to our neighborhood a gentleman from Kentucky by the nameof Craddock.

Our schoolhouse has received a general renovation, which improves itsappearance very much.

The Teter youngsters visited the city Sunday and found the sidewalksin Tannehill in a deplorable condition.

There was no preaching at Tannehill last Sunday as Rev. Frazee was engagedin a protracted meeting at Vernon Center.

Quite a number of the young folks met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. BradburyFriday night and had a social time eating oysters and cracking jokes. Thenregretfully bidding adieu they returned to their homes.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Several of the farmers of Vernon township having been besieged by oneMr. Gaylord, of the Star Nursery of Dayton, Ohio, and by his flatteringstatements have been induced to order trees. Having since been led to distrusthis statements, we have determined to thoroughly investigate the stock orderedand if not as represented, we shall let Mr. Gaylord keep his trees. JOHNBEARD AND OTHERS.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Mrs. S. W. Phenix has been quite sick.

H. H. Hooker, our new justice, will soon be ready for business.

We understand that Mr. Chas. Bahntge has purchased Mr. Dunbar's farm.

The new schoolhouse which is now being built at Polo adds much to thelooks of that city.

The neighbors and friends of Mr. and Mrs. Stuber surprised them on theevening of February 25^th by meeting at their home to celebratetheir wooden wedding. The young folks were full of glee and the older oneswere as happy as sunflowers.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

John Byers and family, of Pleasant Valley, have moved to Beaver.

Charles Irwin, of Udall, visited relatives in Beaver Center last week.

A few of the elite were invited to spend the evening at Mr. Allen's lastSaturday.

Wm. Jenkins is all smiles since his father has purchased a fine teamof horses.

F. M. Benson and wife, of Pleasant Valley, came over last week and bidfarewell to Mrs. Benson's sister and family, who departed for Illinois onlast Thursday.

Miss Cora Beach closed her school at the Centennial schoolhouse on Fridaylast, with a bountiful repast and an exhibition at night, which was largelyattended. As we loaned a helping hand in the exercises, we will allow theaudience to express their opinion as to how they were entertained.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Shivers & Co. display a very neat sign at their place of business.

Father McCollister has sold his farm to E. B. Bradley, our leading lumberman.

Roth Bradley departed for his former home in New York on the 2^ndinst., but will return during the summer.

T. M. Walker and his charming daughter, Miss Ida, were visiting at Mr.Henry Martin's during the past week.

John Brady, the engineer for Steele & Co., has purchased the Dr.Mudgett farm and will soon remove to the same.

Mr. Wm. Poole and his brother, Ben, who are on their way to California,stopped and made the Queen City a short visit last week.

W. A. Cox was arrested for violating the city ordinance relative to theillegal traffic of spirituous liquors, and was fined one hundred dollarsand costs.

Wm. Dale, a brother of J. T. Dale, our popular grain dealer, arrivedfrom Illinois last week. He will remain with us permanently, as he is wellpleased with our country and city.

Brother Burgess preached a very interesting discourse last Sabbath evening.He will leave for his home in Illinois soon for the purpose of bringinghis family to this city and making it their future home.

The Christian church was dedicated to the service of the Lord by appropriateceremonies on the 1^st inst., Rev. Kane, of Belle Plaine, assistedby Judge Gans, of Winfield, and Prof. Campf, of Udall, officiating. BrotherKane will hold a series of meetings at the church during the next two weeks.

A very enthusiastic railroad meeting was held at the office of W. B.Norman on the 2^nd inst. Resolutions were adopted favoring thevoting of bonds, and a committee of three, consisting of W. B. Norman, P.W. Smith, and W. O. McKinlay were appointed to confer with the officersof the D. M. & A. R. R. and request them to submit a proposition forour consideration. Winfield will have to look well to her laurels if wesucceed in securing this road.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

To the citizens of Cowley and adjoining Counties:

We beg to announce that we are now opening in Winfield, Kansas, a completestock of Men's, Boys' and Children's Fine Custom-made, Medium and Low-pricedClothing; and in connection with our clothing, we will show an immense lineof Gent's Fine Furnishing Goods, as well as medium and low-priced, includingevery article of wearing apparel for the man of business or pleasure, thefarmer, mechanic, or stockman. Also a complete line of Hats. We flatterourselves that after twenty years' experience, mostly in one of the largestclothing manufactories in the East, which manufactured the largest lineof clothing of any house for the Southwestern trade, that we will show thepeople of this section one of the very best selections of goods in the abovelines ever offered them. Our business will be conducted on the best knownprinciples of fair dealing. As it is a well-known fact but few people arewell enough posted to protect themselves against the unscrupulous, all customerswho patronize us will be treated alike. Every article will be marked inplain figures and sold strictly at price marked, which will be found thevery lowest that can be named on that class of goods. Every article offeredfor sale will be guaranteed as represented. Any article bought of us thatdoes not prove satisfactory upon examination at your own home, if returnedto us in a reasonable length of time, and in good order, will be exchanged.We enter into the one-price system, feeling confident that the people willrecognize this as the correct principle, after they once become accustomedto it.

Hoping you will favor us with an early examination of our stock, on Eastside of Main street, between 8^th and 9^th avenues,we are

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Daily the preparations for the inauguration are taking more definiteshape and a grand display is now assured. The parade will be one of thelargest, if not the very largest, of the sort ever seen here. There willbe nearly twenty thousand men in line, equally divided between militaryand civil organizations, representing every part of the country, every shadeof political and social life. One interesting feature will be the largeturnout of colored troops, coming too, from both the south and the north.

Those who are entrusted with the preparations for the ball are showingcommendable energy with that important branch of work. The great hall issafely enclosed and is being put in readiness for the evening's festivities.There now can be no reason for doubt that the ball will be entirely successful.And those who don't care about the ball will learn with interest that twentycarloads of fire works have got here, ready to be touched off at the propertime.

A person attending in one of the lofty galleries of the Pension officethis morning would have viewed a more animated and lively scene than itis the fortune of most men to witness in their lives. Along the wide reachesof the immense hall were scattered squads of busy men. Decorators, gas fitters,carpenters, and other artisans of various kinds were engaged in their differentoccupations. The roof will be hung with bunting in the shape of half moons.There will be suspended from the roof thirty-six pennants, seventy-two feetlong, between which will swing garlands of natural flowers. The columnssupporting the roof and the galleries will be wreathed with smilax and flowers.Between the arches of the upper gallery will be placed devices, leavingthe coat-of-arms of various states. Beneath the gallery will be suspended144 elegant silk hangers. Within the arches on the lower floor will be placedlarge American shields, draped with flags, and adorned with silver pointedspears. At one end of the ball room will be placed an immense plate glassmirror, sixteen and a half by ten and a half feet, in a frame of cut glass,and at the opposite end of the President's floral chain under a Japanesecanopy. Pyramids of palms and tropical plants will be placed in each cornerof the ball room. One of the features of the floral decorations will bedevices symbolical of the various executive departments of government. Thecurtains will be of the richest fabrics.

The fireworks display will be the finest ever seen here. One set piecewill be as large as the front of the new pension building. There will bea fiery representation of the Capitol, 65 by 150 feet. One piece will bea portrait of Jefferson, sixty feet high, and a view of Niagara 65 x 300feet will be given.

Miss Kate Field is in Washington and began her crusade against the Mormonswith a lecture last night. She visited the White House for the first timelast week. Of course, it is her first visit to the National Capital, thoughshe is so traveled a woman in other places. Miss Field is making converts,and enlisting leading society women to become crusaders. In the Blue Roomof the White House a week ago, while the reception was going on, she wasdrumming up recruits. "Are you not among the coming women?" sheasked of the wife of Senator Cameron, of Wisconsin. "No, I'm the goingwomen. I go the fourth of March," was that lady's ready answer.

Miss Field says she did not go to Salt Lake to stay six months. But shegot interested. The more interested she got the more indignant. The moreindignant the more angry. The more angry the madder, till she was too madabout the Mormons to come away. So she spent six months there studying theevil, then returned to this better land and wrote a book. Now she is givinga sequel in lectures. Some women find it hard to keep track of a moderatelylarge family, but Miss Field is well up in arithmetic, and has Brigham'sentire household at her tongue's end, to say nothing of the several otherextensive families.

The court martial in the Swaim case did a bungling piece of work, andthe President in approving the sentence expresses his displeasure with thefindings. Swaim gets twelve years suspension on half pay, which is virtuallyhis forced retirement from the army, as he would retire by law in elevenyears with a total loss of $33,000 in pay. The common sense comment on thissentence is that if Swaim deserved it, he deserved to be dismissed.

On the surface the indications point away from an extra session, butof Congress it can always be said that no one can tell what a day may bringforth. L.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Wanted. A good wagon maker. John Drury, Maple City, Kansas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Wanted. Situation by stationary engineer. Address Lock Box 383.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

REMOVAL. Kyger's second hand store is being moved from 8^thAvenue to No. 31 South Main St. this week. Look out for his ad next week.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

FOR RENT. 160 acre farm 3 miles south of Winfield. Terms easy. Addresscare of the Brettun House on or about March 10^th. TIMME THE TAILOR.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

FOR SALE. Horses, Brood Mares, and Percheron Stallions; also Jersey GradeCows. Have several fine farms for sale, among them one of the best stockranches in the state, good improvements, one thousand acres under fence,plenty of shade, water, etc. Terms to suit purchasers. J. C. McMULLEN.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

I have a farm under lease of three years that I will re-lease, 102 acres,all in healthy growing wheat; also a farm of 80 acres to rent for 1 year;will also sell at private sale all my personal property, consisting of onegood team of horses, wagon and harness, 3 good milch cows, 40 head hogs,300 bushels corn, and various farming machinery.

P. M. FUNKHOUSER, Liberty township, one mile northwest of Rose Valleyschoolhouse.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

PUBLIC SALE. I will sell at public sale, in Vernon township, 3½miles east of Oxford and 1 north of Kellogg, on Wednesday, March 11^th,1885, the following described property, to-wit: 3 head of work horses (2mares), 1 colt, 1 wagon, 2 set harness, 1 Deering self-binder, 1 ten horsepower (J. I. Case) traction engine, 1 Advance separator, 1 Hapgood sulkystirring and sod plow, 1 Eagle sulky stirring plow, 1 riding or walkingand 1 walking cultivator, 1 wheat drill, household and kitchen furniture,and other things too numerous to mention. Terms: A credit of nine monthswill be given on all sums over $5 at 8 percent on bankable notes; all sumsunder $5 cash in hand. A discount of 6 percent will be allowed for cash.J. C. THORNBRO. Walter Denning, Auct.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Recap: Notice by Land Office at Wichita, R. L. Walker, Register, re noticeby settler.

Proof to be made before Ed Pate, District Clerk at Winfield, Kansas,on April 4, 1885. Settler: William J. Davis, of Winfield P. O., Kansas.Witnesses: John Marks, David Marks, Mary Page, and Charles Norton, all ofWinfield P. O., Kansas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Notice of final settlement in the matter of the Estate of Sarah DianaJohnson, deceased. Administrator: Ira L. McCommon. Date set for ProbateCourt hearing: April 6, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Notice of final settlement, estate of Francis C. Martin, deceased, onApril 6, 1885. A. Gilkey, Administrator, Hackney & Asp, Attorneys.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Notice of final settlement, estate of John H. Boggs, deceased, on April6, 1885. Joseph S. Hill, Administrator, Hackney & Asp, Attorneys.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Summons by Publication: Martha F. Worden, Plaintiff, against Linden O.Worden, Defendant, before 9^th day of April, 1885. Hackney &Asp, Attorneys for plaintiff.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Notice of final settlement, estate of Sarah J. Kimble, on April 6, 1885,Calvin Kimble, Administrator of the estate of Sarah J. Kimble.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Publication notice of suit: Justice Court before G. H. Buckman, Esq.,a Justice of the Peace, of the City of Winfield. Daniel D. Miller, Plaintiff,against C. W. Massie, O. M. Seward and Dalton & Madden, Attorneys forPlaintiff.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Notice of final settlement estate of C. B. Goforth, on April 6, 1885.Administrator: James A. Goforth, Hackney & Asp, Attorneys.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Land Office Publication, R. L. Walker, Register, re settler, WilliamP. Franklin, of Tisdale, Kansas, for final proof in support of his claimbefore E. S. Bedilion, Notary Public at Winfield, Kansas, on March 28, 1885.Witnesses: J. C. Powers, M. Herrod, Phillip Cook, and R. B. Mulford, allof Tisdale, Kansas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

A New Jersey town has fitted up the town hall as a skating rink in orderto raise money to pay off its debts.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Lieut. Colonel Burnaby, killed in the recent battle in Egypt, was nineteenthin descent from Edward I.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

St. John is no longer in demand to lecture for $50 per night. Nearlyall his engagements for the spring have been canceled.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Horses raised in the Rocky Mountains gain substantial bone and sinew,lungs of great capacity, ease and graceful motion, and freedom of action.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Imagine the Chaplain of the Senate standing up to say prayers and onlytwo Senators present. This actually happened one morning very recently.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

"THOU," the proposed new pronoun (impersonal, singular number)is being taught by some of the teachers in the public schools at Lewistown,Missouri.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Sarah Althea wants to compromise her suit with Sharon for $500,000, butSharon won't compromise. Sarah Althea has been too deliberative with heroffer.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The business situation taking the whole country over, is still unpromising.There is a general confidence in the coming of better times with the springtrade.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Harry Jones, of Butler County, appointed aid-de-camp on the staff ofGov. Martin, was a soldier in the Eighth Kansas, and was wounded at MissionRidge.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Since Mr. John F. Finnerty declares himself in favor of cowardly assassination,his defense for re-election to Congress is not to be considered an irreparablemisfortune.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

It is said that the editors of London journals make it a rule of theprofession never to notice or reply to any reflections concerning each otherpublished in their several papers.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The first Indian student has died at the Haskell Institute, Lawrence,of pneumonia. Civilization and pneumonia always accompany each other inthe case of Indians.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The fund of $250,000 raised a few years ago for Gen. Grant is said tobe entirely invested in Wabash securities, and some of the contributorsfeel very uneasy about their value.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

"Gold," says a Georgia editor, "is found in thirty-sixcounties in this State, silver in three, diamonds in twenty-six, and whiskeyin all of them, and the last gets away with all the rest.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

A Mexican railway manager reports that his purchasing agent has secured300 wooden saints for fuel. He bought them at fifty cents apiece from thenatives who stole them from the churches.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Kansas produced more than one-eighth of the total amount of winter wheatgrown in the United States during the year 1884, and three million bushelsmore than any other State in the Union.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Judge Guthrie, successor to Judge Martin, is, like his predecessor, makingit exceedingly sultry for the saloon keepers at Topeka. And the worst ofit for them is, a certain Mr. Glick is no longer Governor.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Carl Schurz is in the south trying to lecture, but he doesn't "draw"anything like a mustard plaster. Mr. Schurz's mouth was quite useful tothe south during the recent campaign, but it is not now in demand.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The Burden Enterprise says that all kinds of fruit buds on orchardtrees and also small shrubs sustained no injuries from freezing, but arelooking extraordinary well, showing good prospects for a heavy fruit crop.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

John A. co*ckerill, of the New York World, is out in a letteras a sort of reply to General Grant's article in the February Centuryon the battle of Shiloh. Mr. co*ckerill was a drummer at Shiloh, andseems to consider that on that stricken field he was a bigger man than Grant.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

It is stated that "information has been received that the Bendersare in Germany, living in luxury on their illegal gains." All the moneythe Benders secured by their murders and robberies would not support thema year. They are not in Germany; they are dead.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The bill introduced in the Senate to exalt the position of Commissionerof Agriculture into a Cabinet office is not likely to pass. The questionhas been discussed very frequently in the past twenty years, although thisis, we believe, the first attempt to give it the effect of a law. The Congressionalsentiment has always been against it.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The history of the Democratic party in Ohio is but a repetition of itsprevious record as a governing party elsewhere. It had complete controlof all departments of the Ohio state government in 1884, and the net resultis a deficiency of $114,616. The same method of financiering in the generalgovernment for one year will effectually dispose of the surplus.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

February 25^th was a horrid day for railroad collisions. NearAlbion, Pa., a freight train was thrown from the track and four personsfatally injured. Near Chicago, on the I. C. road, two passenger trains collidedand seven persons were killed and eight others seriously injured. Near Kankakeeon the same road a freight ran into two passenger trains, killing ten personsand seriously injuring many more.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The cost of conveying the Kansas electoral vote to Washington by messengeris $391.50, being a distance of 1,206 miles from Topeka to the capital city,at an allowance of 25 cents a mile. The cost of conveying the entire electoralvote of the country to Washington is $8,468.50. The smallest sum paid is$10.50 from Annapolis, Maryland, and the largest amount, $775.50, from Salem,Oregon. This 25 cents a mile constitutes all a messenger is paid.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The bang, it is understood, is going out of the fashion into which itwas brought by the children of the Prince of Wales. People who affect toregard the bang as a modern style of hair-dressing will be interested inlearning that it is decidedly old. Boughton, the artist, in his SketchingRambles in Holland, describing the dress of the woman of Marken, says: "Ina print in a Dutch book of 1737 there is the same fair hair, cut in a fringestraight across the brow, and level with the eyes--some even seemed to lookthrough the fringe with the bright, sharp twinkle of a heady-eyed Skye terrier.Others had the fringe brought level with the eyes, and then brushed up;this had a rather aggressive air, belonging, probably, to the caste of eligiblemaidens. Let those who fancy that the fringe--or bang as it is called inAmerica--is a new fashion go to Marken and see it in its glory."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

On motion of Senator Buchan a committee of five members of the Senate,and the President, Secretary, and Sergeant-at-Arms, were appointed to attendthe funeral of Hon. James S. Merritt, at Wamego.

The following Senators were appointed: Buchan, Hicks, Kellogg, Kellyof McPherson, and Smith.

Senator Miller called up the report formerly made of the committee ofthe whole on the question of a constitutional convention. The Presidentdirected the Secretary to read the journal. This being done, it was foundthat the committee had reported in favor of the indefinite postponementof the question, and that, pending a motion of Senator Redden to disagreeto the report of the committee, the whole matter had been laid over by consentto await the action of a full Senate. Senator Miller then moved to takethe question up, and the Chair stated the question to be on the motion ofSenator Redden to disagree to the report, and the yeas and nays being demandedresulted as follows.

Yeas: Buchan, Edmonds, Harkness, Harwi, Hewins, Kelly, M. C., Kelly,Jno., Kimball, Lloyd, Lingenfelter, Lowe, Miller, Redden, Rush, Sheldon,White, and Young.

Nays: Allen, Barker, Bawden, Blue, Case, Congdon, Crane, Donnell, Granger,Green, Hick, Jennings, Kelley, H. B., Kellogg, Kohler, Marshall, Pickler,Ritter, Shean, Smith, Wasson, and Whitford.

The bills to authorize cities to establish and maintain free librariesand reading rooms, relating to the Twelfth Judicial District, and providingfor holding an additional term of court in Republic County, were passedon third reading.

The following bills were passed on third reading.

Senate bill No. 327, an act fixing the terms of court in the Third JudicialDistrict, and authorizing the Judge of said District to appoint a stenographer,and fixing his compensation.

House bill No. 456, an act to authorize the Board of County Commissionersof Reno County, Kansas, to build certain bridges, and to assume the indebtednessincurred by the townships of Melford and Grant in the erection of certainother bridges.

Senate bill No. 309, an act making appropriation for State printing forthe balance of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1887.

Senate bill No. 321, an act making appropriation to pay per diem andmileage of Regents, Trustees, and Directors of State Institutions for thefiscal year ending June 30, 1886, and June 30, 1887, and for deficienciesfor the fiscal years ending June 30, 1882, 1883, 1884, and 1885.

Senate bill No. 322, an act making appropriations to the LegislativeDepartment.

Senate bill No. 193, an act relating to county boards of examiners, andrepealing chapter 151 of the laws of 1881.

House bill No. 402, an act providing for a uniform system of examinationof school teachers in the several counties of the State of Kansas.

Senate bill No. 266, an act prohibiting the selling, giving, or furnishingof tobacco in any of its forms to minors.

Senate bill No. 258, an act authorizing banks to be designated as depositoriesof public funds in certain counties, and providing for the deposit of moneytherein by County Treasurers.

Mr. F. J. Kelly presented petition for municipal suffrage for women.

Mr. Vance: Fixing terms of court in the Third District, and to providefor a stenographer for the same.

Mr. Vance moved to concur in Senate amendments to H. B. 367, the billwhich has become known as the temperance bill. Mr. Anthony preferred topass upon each amendment in order. This course was taken. In this way theamendments were agreed to down to and including section 16, when Mr. Carrollobjected to section 17, which makes it a misdemeanor for a common carrierto carry or deliver to or for any person to be sold in violation of thisact. And Mr. Finch moved that the House refuse to concur in the Senate amendmentsby insertion of this section. This motion was lost, and the House concurredin all of the Senate amendments to the bill.

Mr. Bond moved to raise his new mutual life insurance bill, No. 413,to third reading. The motion prevailed.

Mr. Clogston moved to raise H. J. R. No. 4 to third reading. It relatesto the judiciary. This motion prevailed.

Mr. Roberts gained consent to introduce H. B. 485, to create a chairof pharmacy in the State University. It was raised to third reading.

Mr. Burton procured advancement to third reading of two bills authorizingDickinson and Morris counties to build jails.

Mr. Faulkner procured the same order for H. B. 451, S. B. 152, H. B.49, and H. B. 347, providing for sale of lands belonging to the State.

This was followed by other like motions, but the House had become tired,and defeated the most of them. In this way a considerable time was spent.

Mr. Drought's H. C. R. 281 for appointment of a joint committee to inquireinto raid claims to report an itemized bill to the Legislature at its nextsession. Mr. Overmyer moved to substitute his H. C. R. directing the PriceRaid Commission to file a detailed statement with the Auditor. This prevailed,and Mr. Overmyer's substitute was adopted.

H. C. R. 30, providing for transcribing the journals of the Legislaturefor preservation in the office of the Secretary of State, was adopted.

Mr. Stewart's H. C. R. 32, recommending the claim of W. C. O'Brien tothe attention of the Kansas delegation in Congress, was adopted.

Mr. Burton's H. C. R. 33, relating to pending actions against SamuelLappin. It authorizes the Attorney General to dismiss such actions, providingthat in his judgment there is not sufficient evidence to procure a conviction,was adopted.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The H. C. R., relating to the settlement of quo warranto proceedingsagainst the Union Pacific railway, having been recalled from the Senate,was again read. The Speaker announced a communication from the counsel inthe case, upon Mr. A. W. Smith, moved that it be printed and be laid over.This prevailed.

S. C. R. 84, asking pensions for living ex-pensioners of war, was nextconsidered. Mr. A. W. Smith would prefer to ask for eight dollars per monthinstead of three dollars, and twelve dollars instead of five to such ashave reached the age of fifty-five years. Mr. Overmyer favored such an amendment.The amendment prevailed, and the resolution was then adopted.

Mr. Roberts' H. C. R. 34, constituting the Governor, Secretary of State,and Attorney General a commission to examine into Quantrell raid claims,next considered. After discussion, the ayes and noes were demanded uponits adoption; and it was adopted.

Substitute for H. B. No. 99, an act to create a Board of Survey to conductexperiments to determine the existence of coal or other materials, and thepracticability of securing artesian wells in the State of Kansas, and definingthe duties of said Board of Survey. The bill was so amended that one halfthe money should go west of that point, and on the final vote the bill waspassed. By the provisions of the bill a Board of Survey is formed, consistingof the Governor, Secretary of State, Chancellor of the State University,President of the Agricultural College, and Secretary of the State Boardof Agriculture, who will have charge of the expenditure of money.

The bill by Mr. Greer, an act making an appropriation and providingfor the erection of a suitable building for the Kansas Asylum for Idioticand Imbecile Youth, at Winfield, Cowley County, Ks., was next consideredand defeated, by a vote of 42 to 37.

The following bills were then read and passed.

Senate bill No. 1, an act making appropriations to the Kansas State AgriculturalCollege for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1886, and June 30, 1887.

Substitute for House bill No. 51, an act making appropriation for thecurrent expenses of the State Reform School for the fiscal years endingJune 30, 1886, and June 30, 1887.

House bill No. 267, an act making an appropriation for the current expensesof the Institution for the Education of the Blind for the fiscal year endingJune 30, 1885, and the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886, and June 30, 1887,and to provide for the purchase of two pianos for the use of said institution.

Substitute for House bill No. 178, an act making appropriationsfor the current expenses of the State Asylum for Idiotic and Imbecile children,for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1886, and June 30, 1887.

House bill No. 268, an act making an appropriation for the erection ofa boiler house and smoke stack, the purchase of a new boiler, and the removaland resetting of old boiler, at the institution for the education of theblind.

House bill No. 457, an act relating to the discharge of guardians, andrelease of sureties of guardians' bonds.

House bill No. 484, an act to regulate the terms of court in the 16^thJudicial District, and repealing all acts in conflict herewith.

House bill No. 415, an act to authorize school district No. 1, HarperCounty, to issue bonds.

House bill No. 480, an act to change the name of a minor child thereinnamed.

Senate bill No. 252, an act to vest the title to block 81, in the cityof McPherson, in the Board of Education of said city for school purposes,and to authorize said Board to use it for said purposes.

House bill No. 161, an act to regulate and fix the terms of the DistrictCourt of the Fifth Judicial District, and to repeal chapter 94, laws of1881.

House bill No. 173, an act to authorize the Board of County Commissionersof Franklin County to levy and appropriate money to build certain bridgesherein named.

Senate bill No. 281, an act to legalize the tax levy by the County Commissionersof Phillips County made in the years 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884,and 1855 respectively.

Senate bill No. 289, an act to provide for the agent of the State ofKansas for prosecuting claims against the United States.

Senate bill No. 230, an act making appropriation to reimburse the countiesof Labette and Montgomery for moneys received by the State as taxes forthe years 1872 and 1873, on lands not taxable.

Senate bill No. 227, an act for the relief of Charles Rath.

The following bill was defeated, after which the House adjourneduntil 7:00 p.m.: An act defining the boundaries of Tisdale township, inCowley County, Kansas, and attaching certain territory therein named toRichland township.

Senate bill No. 387, an act to provide payment to the counties of Sheridan,Trego, Ford, and Barber for costs and expenses incurred by unorganized countiesattached to them for judicial purposes. Passed.

House bill No. 420. An act making appropriations for repairs and improvementsat the State Reform School. Passed.

Substitute for House bill No. 55, for the relief of school district No.32, in Pawnee County, passed.

Substitute for House bill No. 79, making appropriations for the currentexpenses of the institution for the deaf and dumb, for the fiscal yearsof 1886-7, passed.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The report of the Committee on Revision of the Calendar, was discussedand adopted.

The concurrent resolution for the relief of Mrs. , whowas captured by Cheyenne Indians, and her father, mother, and all her familymurdered, was passed.

The House resolution to provide for iron railing on the east end of theCapitol passed.

Senate concurrent resolution No. 36, relating to dismissing suits againstthe Kansas Pacific Railway Company, and the directors of the Union PacificRailway Company, passed.

Senate bill No. 212, an act to provide for the organization, government,and compensation of the militia of the State of Kansas, and for the publicdefense, was passed while the cannon was firing in honor of the inaugurationof President Cleveland.

House bill No. 161, to regulate and fix the terms of court in the FifthJudicial District, passed a third reading.

Senator Edmunds pushed through, on a suspension of the rules, House billNo. 365, to build a township house

Senate bill No. 117, an act to authorize the County Commissioner to constructand improve roads, was passed. This bill takes effect on condition of apetition of one fifth of the voters, and a majority vote in its favor bythe county. It provides for issuing bonds.

Senate bill No. 124, an act to amend section 6 of article 3, and section8 and 16 of article 4, of an act entitled "An act for the regulationand support of common schools," passed.

Senate bill No. 202, an act to authorize cities to establish and maintainfree libraries and reading rooms.

S. C. R. asking that the residue of Osage lands be put on the market,was indefinitely postponed.

to H. C. R., ordering all laws published in the Daily Commonwealthand in not less than eighty other newspapers, was concurred in.

Also concurred in Senate amendments to H. B. No. 402, providing for uniformsystem of examination of teachers.

Mr. Anthony secured S. B. No. 73, advanced on the calendar. It providesfor the burial at the expense of the State of indigent ex-soldiers. Otherbills were advanced upon motion of gentlemen interested.

Mr. McNall moved to make a special order this evening for considerationof Senate bills. It was so ordered.

Substitute for S. B. No. 54, to establish a bureau of labor and industrialstatistics.

H. B. No. 451, reported by select committee, for sale of certain landsto create a fund to be expended in deep borings to prospect for mineralsand artesian water by the Board of survey.

S. B. No. 152, to transfer the balance of the fund in the Treasury, knownas the railroad fund; and the residue of the 500,000 acre grant to the Statepermanent school fund.

On motion of Mr. F. J. Kelley, the bill was amended so as to providefor the sale of the lands the same as other school lands. The bill was passed.

H. J. R. No. 4, for the submission of a proposition to amend the constitutionreconstructing the Judiciary, came next. Mr. Clogston explained the necessityfor such an amendment at length. A call of the House was ordered and had.

A vote on the passage of the joint resolution was reached. Passed.

S. B. No. 291, bridge bill for Bourbon County, was slightly amended andpassed.

S. B. No. 226. Legalizing bonds issued by School District 42 of LinnCounty, passed.

S. B. No. 160. Authorizing a levy of taxes in school district for supportof city library at Marion; passed.

Mr. Roberts' H. B. No. 485. To establish a chair of pharmacy in the StateUniversity; passed.

Hon. Geo. D. Orner, of Medicine Lodge, received the appointment of Judgefor the Ninth Judicial District.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

On motion of Senator Bawden the rules were suspended and the bill grantingjurisdiction to the United States over grounds in Fort Scott, belongingto the United States, was placed on third reading.

Senate Bill No. 151, the grand jury bill, was read a third time and passed.

Senator H. B. Kelly moved a suspension of the rules, and that the billrecommended by the minority of the Committee on Railroads be placed uponthird reading. Lost: yeas 17, nays 18.

The rules were suspended and the following bills were read a third timeand passed.

Substitute for House bill No. 51, an act making appropriation for thecurrent expenses of the State Reform School for the fiscal years endingJune 30, 1886, and June 30, 1887.

House Bill No. 267, an act making an appropriation for the current expensesof the Institution for the Education of the Blind for the fiscal year endingJune 30, 1885, and the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886, and June 30, 1887,and to provide for the purchase of two pianos for the use of said institution.

Substitute for House Bill No. 178, an act making appropriationsfor the current expenses of the State Asylum for Idiotic and Imbecile Children,for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1886, and June 30, 1887.

House Bill No. 268, an act making an appropriation for the erection ofa boiler house and smoke stack, the purchase of a new boiler, and the removaland resetting of old boiler at the Institution for the Education of theBlind.

House Bill No. 249, an act making appropriations to provide for the erectionof a kitchen building, two cottage buildings, and boiler house, and thecompletion of a system of heating and sewerage at the State Reform School.

Substitute for House Bill No. 79, providing appropriations for the currentexpenses of the Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, forthe fiscal years ending June 30, 1886, and June 30, 1887.

Mr. Finch presented a petition from fifty women asking for the establishmentof a State Reform School for Girls.

The House concurred in Senate amendments to H. B. 311, to create theTwenty-first Judicial District--Waubaunsee, Riley, and Pottawatomie counties.

S. C. R. 36, directing dismissal of quo warranto suits againstUnion Pacific and Kansas Pacific Railway Companies, next. Mr. Buck favoredadoption. Adopted.

On motion of Mr. Anthony, S. B. 328, ceding jurisdiction to the UnitedStates over site for Federal building at Fort Scott, was advanced to thirdreading.

The Senate message to the House the passage of a railroad fence bill,being the House bill with all after the enacting clause stricken out andthe Senate bill on same subject substituted. This amendment was concurredin by the House.

House Bill 483, Mr. Bond's mutual life insurance bill, was again takenup for consideration on third reading, and passed.

S. B. 284. Making appropriation for erection of building at Winfieldfor the Kansas Asylum for Idiots. It appropriates twenty-five thousand dollars.The bill passed.

S. B. 20. Appropriation for current expenses of the State University.Passed.

S. B. 89. Appropriation for the Topeka Insane Asylum. Passed.

S. B. 63. Appropriation for the Osawatomie Insane Asylum. Passed.

S. B. 61. Appropriation for the State Normal School. Passed.

S. B. 62. Appropriation for new buildings, repairs, drainage, etc., atthe Osawatomie Insane Asylum. Passed.

Substitute for S. B. No. 22. Appropriation of $50,000 for a buildingfor the department of natural history at the State University came next,and a call of the House was demanded. A considerable time was expended onthe call. The bill was passed, 79 to 39.

About twenty bills of a local nature were passed in omnibus.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Senator Jennings introduced a bill, by consent, providing forthe purchase of land at Winfield, Kansas, for the school for imbecile youth.An emergency having been created, it was read a second and third time andpassed.

Special order set for 9 a.m. was then taken up.

H. B. No. 116, an act for the protection of cattle against Texas splenicor Spanish fever, and repealing chapter 3 of the laws of 1884. Passed.

The following resolutions were concurred in.

House concurrent resolution No. 34, making governor, secretary of state,and attorney general a committee to examine into the losses sustained bycitizens of the state of Kansas by bands of guerrillas.

House concurrent resolution relating to the claim of W. C. O'Brien forproperty destroyed by rebels.

S. B. No. 329, an act making appropriation for miscellaneous purposeswas passed.

S. B. No. 331, an act to provide revenue for the fiscal year ending June30, 1886, and June 30, 1887, was taken up and after consideration the billwas passed.

House Bill No. 248, making an appropriation for the State penitentiaryfor the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886, and June 30, 1887, and for thedeficiency from the year ending June 30, 1885. An emergency having beencreated, the bill was put upon final passage.

S. B. No. 194, an act to amend section 6, chapter 152 laws of 1881, fixingthe compensation of county superintendents. Passed: ayes, 21, nays 15.

An act for relief of W. F. Harker, and an act making appropriation forthe erection of additional buildings, the purchase of furniture for thesame, and the purchase of additional grounds, at the state insane asylumat Topeka, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886, and June 30, 1887,and for lighting the asylum buildings, and completing air passage and fanfor the same. Passed.

The house then took up appropriation bills on third reading, and thefollowing were passed.

An act making appropriations to the state horticultural society for thepublication of their reports, and for the expenses of the society for thefiscal year ending June 30, 1886, and June 30, 1887.

An act making appropriations to pay the several counties of the statethe expenses incurred in the maintenance of destitute insane persons, fordeficiencies from the fiscal year ending June 30, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882,1883, 1884, 1885, and for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1886, and June30, 1887.

An act to provide for the erection of additional buildings at Olathe,Kansas, for the institution for the education of the deaf and dumb, duringthe fiscal year ending June 30, 1886.

An act making appropriation for the state fish commissioner for the fiscalyears ending June 30, 1886, and June 30, 1887, and for deficiency for thefiscal year ending June 30, 1885.

An act making appropriations for conveying prisoners to the penitentiary,for the deficiencies from the fiscal years ending June 30, 1879, 1880, and1881, and for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1886, and June 30, 1887.

An act making appropriations to pay per diem and mileage of regent, trustees,and directors of the state institutions for the fiscal years ending June30, 1886, and June 30, 1887, and for deficiencies for the fiscal years endingJune 30, 1882, 1883, 1884, and 1885.

An act providing for the remodeling and repairing of the east wing ofthe State house, and the erection of the central building thereof, and toprovide revenue therefor by special levy of taxes, and supplemental to anact approved March 5, 1883.

An act to establish a "soldiers' orphans' home," and for thegovernment and maintenance thereof, and making an appropriation therefor.

An act making appropriation for state printing for the balance of thefiscal year ending June 30, 1885, and for the fiscal years ending June 30,1886, and June 30, 1887.

The Legislative appropriation bill.

An act to provide for honorably discharged ex-union soldiers, sailors,or marines, who may hereafter die without leaving means sufficient to defrayfuneral expenses, and to provide headstones to mark their graves.

An act making appropriation for executive and judiciary departments ofthe state for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1886, and June 30, 1887,and for deficiencies from the fiscal years ending June 30, 1884, and June30, 1885.

The House then concurred in several senate amendments to house bills.

The House then took up bills on third reading and the following wereomnibussed through.

S. B. No. 251, an act to authorize the board of county commissionersof Douglas County to appropriate money to build a bridge in Douglas County.

S. B. No. 175, an act to amend an act entitled "An act for the regulationand support of common schools," such act being chapter 122 of sessionlaws of 1876, and repeal section 1 of chapter 149 of the session laws of1881.

An act fixing terms of court in eleventh judicial district.

An act to authorize the court, judge, or magistrate to exclude minorsin certain cases during trial.

An act for the relief of G. B. Crail.

An act for the relief of E. M. Stephens, and making an appropriationtherefor.

An act relating to the liens of irrigators, and regulating proceedingsto enforce the same.

An act to amend section 3 of chapter 112 of the session laws of 1874;entitled "An act supplemental to and amendatory of chapter 92; generalstatutes of 1868, and chapter 86, laws of 1869, and chapter 185 of lawsof 1872," and to authorize the condemnation of lands for schoolhousesites.

An act relating to the district court of Shawnee County, to certain actionspending therein, and to the powers and duties of the judge and clerk ofsaid court.

H. B. No. 114, an act relating to the liability of railroads for damagesby fire, which was passed by the house and amended by the senate, was calledup, and the house concurred in the amendments.

Mr. Barnes then called up Senator Kellogg's bill relating to county boardsof examiners, and it was read a third time and passed.

The miscellaneous appropriation bill which had been passed by the senatewas read a first and second time and referred to the committee of the whole,after which the house adjourned until 7:30 p.m.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The following appointments by the Governor were confirmed in executivesession.

For Regent of the State Normal School, for the term ending April 1^st,1899, Wm. M. Rice of Fort Scott; Milton Stewart, of Sedgwick County.

For the term ending April 1^st, 1887, J. H. Franklin, of RussellCounty.

For members of the State Board of Pardons, Gen. J. C. Caldwell, of ShawneeCounty; Robert B. Stevenson, of Allen County, and Andrew J. Felt, of NemahaCounty.

For State House Commissioner, Thomas A. Butler, of Rice County.

For Brigadier General of State Militia, J. N. Roberts, of Douglas County.

For State Fish Commissioner, S. Fee, of Pottawatomie County.

For Warden of the Penitentiary, John H. Smith.

Directors of the Penitentiary: O. S. Hyatt, of Leavenworth County; H.E. Richter, of Morris County.

Regent of State Normal School: E. W. Warner, of Phillips County.

At 4 o'clock p.m., the Senate adjourned sine die.

S. B. 59, providing stenographers for District courts was passed.

Mr. Buck moved to take up the Senate grand jury bill, but upon a vote,the Speaker declared the motion lost.

S. B. 159, relating to salaries of county officers as recommended bythe Governor's message, was passed.

The report of the Conference Committee on the appropriation to C. L.de Randamie, raising it to $1,000, was adopted.

Mr. Finch moved to reconsider the vote by which Senate bill 331 was passed.He had discovered that it duplicates the half-mill levy for the State House,provided for in another bill which had passed. The vote was reconsidered,and this feature stricken out of it. It was then passed again.

Senate amendments to the House bill removing political disabilities wereconcurred in.

S. B. 251, a bridge bill for Douglas and Butler counties, was passed.

The forenoon session was spent by tired and sleepy men in singing andlistening to it.

A resolution was adopted disputing a report in the Capital, whichcharged Mr. Burton with being intoxicated during the mob of the previousnight.

The following were adopted.

WHEREAS, The late Henry Hopkins spent the best part of his life in theservice of the State, and finally died a martyr in its service; therefore,be it

Resolved, By the House of Representatives, that one hour bedevoted to remarks to the memory of the lamented Henry Hopkins.

These resolutions were ordered to be engrossed and transmitted to Mrs.Hopkins.

Mr. Anthony made a motion to give the chairs occupied by the reportersto each one respectively. In support of his motion he stated that neverbefore has there been such pleasant relations existing between members andthe press.

Several conference committees made reports. That upon the railroad billhaving failed to adjust differences, another committee was appointed.

At 3:50 in the morning the conference committee on miscellaneous appropriationbills made report. It would have held out later had the members known ofthe further extension of time till 6 a.m. The report, although not satisfactoryto the House, was adopted under protest. The State Historical Society isleft in much better shape than was provided by the original bill, yet notso nicely fixed as the House had provided. The private asylums, hospitals,etc., which were in the bill were all left in, including Christ's Hospitalat Topeka and the Atchison Hospital, the two new additions to the list,but the amount for each one was cut down to $500.

The following was introduced by Mr. Anthony, and adopted by a risingvote.

Resolved, That the Speaker of this House be instructed to sendthe following message.

To Gen. U. S. Grant:

I am instructed by the Legislature of the State of Kansas, at the hourof adjournment, to send greeting to you, as grateful recipients of yourvalue in the field and wisdom as a statesman, and congratulations at therecognition of the nation in your restoration to a rank you surrenderedin the interest and at the call of your country.

May God in his wisdom spare you long to live and enjoy with us the fruitsof peace restored and a country saved.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

To Hon. Geo. F. Edmunds, President pro tempore of the United StatesSenate.

The accompanying communication, although an Executive message, may beread in open session.

The President pro tem of the Senate: Manifestations of applauseare not in order.

The Clerk read as follows:

To the Senate of the United States:

I nominate Ulysses S. Grant, General Commanding the Armies of the UnitedStates, to be General on the retired list, with the full pay of such rank.

The President pro tem then announced that the nomination wouldbe considered in open session. "The question is, will the Senate adviseand consent to this appointment? All Senators in favor will say 'aye.'"[A storm of "ayes."]

"All opposed say 'no.'" [Dead silence.]

"The ayes have it."

This announcement was received with thunders of applause both on thefloor and in the galleries.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Prof. Richard A. Proctor says the moon is the most interesting of allthe heavenly bodies. It has been particularly serviceable in the proof itaffords of the law of gravitation. It proves, too, what the world has beenin remote ages of the past and what it will be in the remote ages to come.Its most significant services to man has been as a measurement of time.The only perceptible effect which the earth has upon the moon's course isthat of attraction, by which its route in space is slightly deviated. Fromthe moon's present condition we may inform ourselves of the course of allplanetary life. There is every reason to suppose that our present conditionwas at one time hers; that she possessed an atmosphere, animal and vegetablelife. That has now passed away. Her surface is a sterile, rocky mass. Theatmosphere has gone or nearly so, and the seas are dried up. This same processis going on with our earth, and a similar result will eventually ensue,but by reason of the greater bulk of our planet, effects produced in tenmillions of years in the moon will require sixty millions with us.

New York Tribune.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The newly elected Senators sworn in at Washington, March 4^th,were: Joseph S. Blackburn, of Kentucky; Jas. B. Eustis, of Louisiana; Wm.M. Evarts, of New York; James K. Jones, of Arkansas; Henry B. Payne, ofOhio; John C. Spooner, of Wisconsin; Leland Stanford, of California; HenryM. Teller, of Colorado; and Ephraim K. Wilson, of Maryland. The re-electedSenators sworn in were: Wm. B. Allison, of Iowa; Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia;Wilkinson Call, of Florida; J. Donald Cameron, of Pennsylvania; John J.Ingalls, of Kansas; John P. Jones, of Nevada; Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont;Orville H. Platt, of Connecticut; James L. Pugh, of Alabama; Zebulon B.Vance, of North Carolina; George G. Vest, of Missouri; and D. W. Voorhees,of Indiana.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

AGREEABLE TO EVERYBODY. Col. Robert G. King, for ten years Deputy CollectorInternal Revenue, Baltimore, Maryland, writes: I endorse the Red Star CoughCure. I have used it in my family for a violent cough and found it excellent.Its use was entirely free from the depressing effects of other cough remedies.It can readily be taken, and agrees with and benefits everybody sufferingfrom throat and lung troubles. The relief is permanent, and there is noreaction.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

To the Legislature of Kansas:

Your Joint Committee appointed to investigate the matter of the saleof Normal School lands in Mitchell and Lincoln counties, Kansas, have performedthat duty and beg leave to make the following report.

The committee has had before it a large number of witnesses on the partof the State and on the part of the Board of Regents, and all persons requestinga hearing have been heard, to the end that the investigation might be thoroughand impartial.

Your committee find that in March, 1884, the State Normal School ownedabout 7,500 acres of land, all being in Mitchell County, excepting one sectionin Lincoln County, said lands being contiguous and comprising one body.That said lands up to March, 1884, had been on the market under an appraisem*ntmade in the spring of 1882, said appraisem*nt having been made by the Boardof Regents at an average of over six dollars per acre, at which time, March,1884, by order of the Board, said lands were all withdrawn from the marketand a committee appointed consisting of Sharp, Thanhouser, and Orner, membersof said Board, and directed to visit said lands with a view of ascertainingthe value of such lands and the advisability of their sale in a body. Saidcommittee visited said lands about July 1, 1884, and made a partial examinationthereof. That Isaac Sharp, President of the Board, afterwards prepared areport in blank, which was signed by the committee about the 10^thday of July, 1884; that said report was never presented to nor filed withsuch Board. Nor did said Board ever adopt, notify, or confer said report,or take any action therein whatever. During such time, one Van R. Holmes,of Emporia, Kansas, was the State agent for the sale of Normal School lands;that said Holmes, from March 1884 up to July 18, 1884, was not authorizedto sell said lands, except by private direction from the Board, at not lessthan $5 per acre in gross. That on or before the 19^th day ofJuly, 1884, Isaac Sharp, president of the Board, sold the entire tract ofNormal School lands in said Mitchell and Lincoln counties, aggregating 7,520acres, at the price of $3.50 per acre, to one H. C. Cross, of Emporia; andon said 10^th day of July said land agent Holmes made and executeda contract of sale to said Cross. That said sale was made by said IsaacSharp without consultation with the Board of Regents, and no order of theBoard was ever made for the sale of such lands, nor has the Board ever ratifiedthe same since; and no authority was ever given by the Board to said Holmesto make such contract of sales. That said lands were desirable lands, beingabout half tillable and the balance good grazing lands, well watered andmarketable. That the tillable lands were, at the time of the sale, worth$6 an acre, and the grazing lands $4 per acre, the whole worth in a body$5 an acre. That no notice was given, after the lands were withdrawn fromthe market, of any intention to again place the same on sale, and no effortmade by the Board or any member connected therewith to solicit purchasersfor the same. That many persons were anxious to purchase, and two responsiblepersons submitted formal offers for the lands to members of the Board at$4 per acre, taking the entire tract under one contract, either all cashor on deferred payments, as might be preferred. Said offers were made bothin person and by correspondence, and each of said parties would have given$4.50 an acre for the entire tract as one sale if an opportunity had beengiven. That on the 19^th day of July, 1884, when such contractwas executed, Agent Holmes refused to sign the contract without an orderfrom the Board to that effect; that President Sharp directed Secretary Dicksonto write up such an order, purporting to be an order of the Board; thatDickson declined on the ground that the Board had never made such order.That hereafter an order was prepared from said committee to Holmes to sellthe lands to H. C. Cross for $3.50 an acre, signed by Sharp and Thanhouser,and purporting to be signed by Orner, but, in fact, Orner's name was writtenby Sharp, without his knowledge or authority. That Holmes retained the sumof about $800 as his commission for such sale. That in the latter part ofJuly or August, Sharp wrote a letter addressed to the members of the Board,stating that he had an offer of $3.50 an acre for the land, and asking theopinion of such members as to the advisability of accepting that price;said letter purposed to bear the endorsem*nt of Thanhouser, Dickson, andHaller in terms approving of the offer, and was by Sharp forwarded to Ornerin California, asking that he should endorse his approval thereon, whichwas done with the qualification, "Provided that was all that couldbe got for the lands," and returned by Orner to Sharp. That as a matterof fact said letter was written by Sharp after the sale had been concluded,and the pretended endorsem*nts by Haller and Dickson and Thanhouser werenot written or made by them. That all the conversations and negotiationsleading to and resulting in the bargain and sale of the land to Cross werehad and made by said Isaac Sharp, and with a studied effort on the partof both Sharp and Cross to consummate said sale and to avoid the solicitationof competing bidders, as well as in disregard of satisfactory offers fromresponsible parties to take the land at a better price, and on terms inother respects as good as those imposed upon Cross.

Your committee are of the opinion that said sale was made by collusionand fraud; that the same was without authority of law, and against the bestinterest of the school; and that the responsibility therefor rests almostwholly upon the President of said Board. That in the opinion of your committeethe said sale should be set aside.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

A Cowley County student of the State Agricultural College, at Manhattan,sends us the following college notes.

The cooking class furnishes a lunch Fridays to all those so disposed,for the little sum of ten cents.

A few of the professors are wont to be absent occasionally, for thisis the time of farmers' clubs and institutes.

Prof. Snow, of the State University, gave a lecture here in the ChapelFebruary 20. His subject was "Pre-historic Man," of which he gaveus the scientific side in a straight forward style.

There evidently is one good act of the Regents, and that is the mattingof the halls, so now the tramp of three hundred and thirty pairs of feetthrough the main hall is greatly modified by a strip of carpet 240 feetlong.

Mrs. Kedzie gave the Chapel lecture on Friday last. Of all the studentsbesides many visitors, none could have imagined a more correct and completeidea of the sights in New Orleans during Christmas vacation except by beingthere themselves, besides a very graphic account of the history and mannerof living of the old French Creoles of that "quaint old city,"as she calls it.

On Saturday evening, February 28^th, the College social ofthis term was held. The entertainment consisted of music by the orchestraand singing class and a concert, after which the time was occupied until10 o'clock by social greetings and parades up and down the halls, providingsomebody didn't get ahead of you which was the case with your honorablecorrespondent.

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A free delivery postoffice will be established at Lawrence, Kansas, May1.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

President Cleveland has appointed Gen. John C. Black, of Danville, Ill.,Commissioner of Pensions.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The Oliver Chilled plow works at South Bend, Ind., which have been idlesince the strike-riot in January, resumed operations last week.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The first copy of the Thomas Cat, of Catby, Thomas County, Kansas,has made its appearance. This is a newspaper enterprise to aid in the settlementof Thomas County, Kansas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

A. J. Root, in Gleanings, aptly says "When one really gets the beefever, or strawberry fever for that matter, or any of these passions foroutdoor work, he loses all taste for lower pleasures. In watching the waysof animal and vegetable growth, he seems to be drawing nearer to natureand nature's God.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Scientific men are advocating the execution of criminals by means ofelectricity. A chair is to be prepared into which the doomed man will betied and by clock work at a given moment the current will pass through hisbody--a lightning stroke--and all will be over. The counting of the lastfew seconds will make the scene impressive and solemn.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Beecher recently lectured in Dover, Delaware, and in his speech referredto "the damnable fable about the Garden of Eden and Adam and Eve."Delaware people are generally orthodox and old fashioned in their beliefs.They say they don't want Beecher again--they will send for Bob Ingersollwhen they get ready to listen to such talk.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

High license has been defeated in the Minnesota legislature. The samekind of a fight was made against it as if it were a prohibitory measure.Though Minnesota is near enough to Iowa to be effected by the symptoms overthere, there are enough Swedes in Minnesota to defeat any such stringentmeasures of prohibition as are being tried to be enforced in Iowa.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

A good joke is told on Ex-Gov. Glick, Gen. C. W. Blair, Col. A. S. Everest,and two or three other prominent Democrats who called upon President Clevelandbefore the inauguration: "Did I understand those fellows to say,"asked the president-elect of his secretary as the party were taking theirdeparture, "that they constituted the Democratic party of Kansas?"

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

In the good old days of Hayes and Garfield to be an Ohio man was consideredto be politically fortunate. Now comes the era for New York men. PresidentCleveland has started out with two New York men in his cabinet, three ofthe eight of that company being New Yorkers. It is presumed that New Yorkmen will continue to get at least three-eighths of the appointments to office.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Another famous legend has struck a snag. It is now asserted that whenRome burned fiddles had not been invented, and consequently Nero could nothave indulged in the musical past-time attributed to him. Alas! With thedisappearance of the Captain John Smith Pocahontas, the Toll-apple, andother allegories, what will the school children of the future do for prettyfables?

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Of Cleveland's cabinet Bayard was during the war a Union man with a goodmany scruples. Manning was thinking about politics and reporting conventionsand paid little attention to the conflict; Vilas was a Colonel in the Unionarmy; Garland was in the Confederate Congress; Lamar was in the Confederatearmy and in Russia. Nobody remembers what Endicott was doing.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The completed Washington monument is double the height of Trinity spirein New York City and three times as high as the Tower of Pisa. The Europeanstructure making the closest approach to it is Cologne cathedral, 511 feet;Strasburg cathedral, 468 feet, and St. Peter's, Rome, 445 feet. The originalheight of the Great Pyramid was 485 feet. The Washington obelisk, with itsvertical line of 555 feet, towers above the grandest structures of the OldWorld.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

It seems that the Conference Committee on the Indian appropriation billfinally agreed on the amendment to authorize the President to negotiatefor the Oklahoma lands. Now let the boomers stay out of there until thePresident performs that duty and proclaims these lands open to settlement.It is not at all likely that the new President will change the policy ofthe previous one as to keeping men out of that country until such time asthey can go legally.

Commonwealth.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The number of applications for postmasterships which are pouring intothe office of First Assistant Postmaster General is simply wonderful andastonishing. Nothing like it was ever heard of before. The first assistanthas detailed a very large corps of extra clerks to file these petitions.Schuyler Crosby, the late first assistant, has found the work too much forhim and resigned. We fear that several tons of these valuable documentswill be lost and that most of the balance will be buried so deep in the30 feet by 80 feet little pigeon-holes that they will not be resurrectedand acted upon for months to come. It would be too bad.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

We note the death of Miss Florence Blue, the daughter of Senator R. W.Blue, at her home in Pleasanton, Linn County, Kansas. Miss Blue had justattained her 19^th birthday, and was to have been married on the11^th inst. Her death was sudden, wholly unexpected, as she droppeddead while engaged at some household duty, without any premonition of sickness,or indisposition even. Senator Blue is widely and favorably known throughoutKansas, and the COURIER unites with his numerous friends in the condolencethat is extended him and family in the hour of their grievous sorrow andaffliction.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The Globe-Democrat's report says: "When the President-electpassed along the avenue, with uncovered head glistening in the sun, amiablynodding first to one side, and then to the other, there was cheering. Therewas more when Mr. Hendricks stood up in his barouche and waved his hand.But when Fitzhugh Lee came up at the head of the Virginia troops, he andthey wearing the gray, there was shouting which made the welkin ring. Soit was at night. Fitzhugh Lee, because he was the son of his father, wasthe idol of Inauguration Day, day and night. "We take off our hatsto a sentiment," was the apologetic explanation of this adulation.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The most useful engraving for the next Kansas agricultural report wouldbe a picture of the Mennonite stove and a description of its make, form,and use. The fuel used by these people--Germans who came here from Russia--ishay, straw, and cornstalks--what the Missourians called "roughness."They spend no money for coal, they do not burn the golden corn, and theydo good cooking and have warm rooms to sleep in. The Mennonites who cameto Harvey, Reno, and other counties in 1873 are already rich--farms paidfor, groves planted, fine gardens, sweet homes. And they have always beenwarm. Hiawatha World.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The Legislature adjourned Saturday. The House and the Senate failed toagree upon the railroad question, hence it failed to give the people therelief they asked for. The bill passed by the House after a long and bittercontest, was as near perfect in all its provisions as it would be possibleto enact. It was fair to the railroads and just to the people. But the Senatecould not see it that way. That body was evidently not in favor of verystringent measures and rejected the House bill for a mild and harmless oneof its own. Thus the matter hung until Friday night at nine o'clock whena conference committee was asked for by the House. The committee on thepart of the Senate was Senators Buchan, Blue, and Loyd, and on the partof the House, Messrs. Gillett, Blair, Simpson, Rhodes, and Greer. The sessionof the committee lasted until four o'clock in the morning when an agreementwas finally reached, and a bill reported containing the vital and salientfeatures of the House bill. This report was unanimously adopted by the Senate,but a few of the rabid anti-railroad members of the House refused to endorseit and the report failing to receive a constitutional majority was lost.A second conference committee was then appointed and Cowley was representedagain thereon by Senator Jennings, but this committee was made up of therabid antis on the part of the House, refused to agree, and the sessionexpired without a line of legislation on this, one of the most importantsubjects before the public.

This result is traced directly to the lack of judgment and hard-headednessof a few of the most radical members. While the bill reported by the firstconference committee was not all that could be desired, it was a very greatimprovement over the present law, and the fact was plainly evident thatit was all that could be secured at that session. The vote on acceptingthe report was taken at five o'clock in the morning, when nearly half themembers were worn out and gone home. It stood forty-nine for and twenty-oneagainst, and required the constitutional majority of sixty-three to carry.The votes against were cast by members who should have been for it. Theirmistake was in demanding everything when a moment's exercise of judgmentshould have convinced them that such action meant nothing.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

While we regret exceedingly that the Imbecile Asylum will be removedfrom Lawrence and that consequently our city will assume very importantproportions, still there are views in which the removal has a more favorableappearance. If the institution were permanently located here the antagonismof certain portions of the State would be aroused at every session of thelegislature when the necessary appropriations for the asylum and the universitywere asked for. There exists a natural jealousy among the legislators representingdifferent sections of the state in regard to state institutions and thereis and always will be a strong opposition to the monopolizing by one cityof any large portion of the funds devoted by the state to educational andcharitable purposes. There is no doubt that the absence of the asylum andthe necessity of asking appropriations for it will materially facilitatethe obtaining of liberal appropriations for the far more important institution,the state university. Cowley County will hereafter be an applicant for theappropriation of state funds and we can safely count upon her delegationfor assistance in our similar needs. We do not wish to be understood asbeing satisfied or pleased with the loss of the asylum but we merely mentionpoints in which it can be seen that in this case as in all others, it is"an ill wind that blows no good." Equally with losing the institutionwe regret the loss from our ranks of our citizens of Col. H. M. Greene,the efficient superintendent. Mr. Greene is a gentleman of high cultureand attainments and Lawrence can ill afford to lose him. Lawrence Journal.

The only bad feature about the distribution of state institutions isin the fact that the counties in which they are located have a communityof interests, and consequently form a powerful combination which is almostirresistible. They generally get about what they want from the legislaturein the way of appropriations, and about everything else. It is a nice thingfor those counties which form the "ring," but a little hard onthe "outs." Cowley has been taken into this mutual admirationleague. She need not wail seriously over this matter, however.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

We wish to say that Frank S. Jennings has covered himself with gloryin his work as State Senator. He attained an influence and respect secondto none in that able body, and has been one of its most industrious andefficient workers.

In this connection we are not going to let sentiments of sham delicacyprevent us from saying that Ed. P. Greer has done in the House as well asFrank has in the Senate, and has attained the same degree of influence andefficiency. No member of either House has worked more hours or more skillfullyin carrying out the wishes of his constituents. He returns very much workeddown, but happy in his success.

Louis P. King and John D. Maurer have represented their constituentsably and well and have earned the gratitude of the districts they have representedand of the whole County.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

A general strike of employees throughout the whole system of Gould railroadstook place last Saturday. The following from Atchison, Kansas, gives a generalview of proceedings at that place and from it we may infer what was occurringat many other places in Kansas, Missouri, and Texas: "The shop employeesof the Missouri Pacific railroad at this place went out at 9:40 tonight.The strikers number between 200 and 300 and are well organized and theyare acting under orders from Sedalia, where the shopmen struck at 3 p.m.today. They held a meeting preliminary to the strike which was fully attended.They first visited the yards and took possession of the switch engines andran them to the round house, and committees are now stationed in all theyards to receive and take charge of all freight engines and prevent handlingof freight. At present they will not interfere with passenger trains. Theirdemands are a restoration of wages to the figures previous to the last cut.Good order prevails.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Ed. Greer and his friends are again happy, as the House this morningreconsidered its action relative to the home for Idiotic youths, and passedthe bill transferring the institution from Lawrence to Winfield. It alsoappropriates $25,000 to begin with, and once firmly established, the homewill probably be generously looked after by the State. The eastern portionof the State has heretofore secured and held all the public institutions,and the members take the ground that they should be more generally distributed.Kansas City Times.

For ten years the southern and western portion of the State has beenasking for an equal distribution of State favors, commercial and political,but the seven or eight river counties insisted on keeping everything thatwas worth having, and up to this time they have succeeded. However, we trustthat this experience will teach them that the earth and the fullness thereofdoes not belong exclusively to the eastern tier. Cowley only asked fairtreatment and if she had not got it, someone would have had their fingerspinched.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

ROTHACKER, of the Denver Opinion, says: "There is but onevoice and this is the contralto. A tenor is a sugared pretense; a sopranois a thrill at passion; baritone is too outdoorish; a basso is a loud noise,but a contralto is the soul of harmony in a wail of longing. It is the tone-mistressof the emotions: a rich, low, sweet, sensuous twilight of song; a nevermore set to music; a white hand which draws aside the curtain of the pastand shows the present lying prone before it in tears."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Sheriff C. H. Thompson, of Marion County, Kansas, passed through KansasCity last Thursday on his way to the Leavenworth penitentiary, having incharge Robert Calhoun, a baker by trade and formerly of Marion Center, wherehe was convicted and sentenced Monday to serve forty-two years at hard laboron the charge of seduction. The fiend incarnate and rascal, whom it wouldbe gross flattery to call a man, was the principal to a premeditated anddiabolical series of crimes that have no parallel in the criminal annalsof the state of Kansas. Until recently Thompson has been engaged in thebakery business at Marion Center, and his conduct has been such that nosuspicion rested upon him until recently, when, upon investigation, startlingdevelopments were made. It seems that for some time past Calhoun, who isa married man, has been in the habit of enticing young girls into the rearof his shop, by making them presents of sweetmeats and other things attractiveto them, and then by force or persuasion, as the case necessitated, committinga criminal assault upon them and by threats and other cunning methods, asbecame the fiend, had them repeat their visits, that he might further gratifyhis beastly desires. He is known to have ruined thirteen young girls, someof whom are not yet in their teens. On the discovery of his crimes he wasarrested, and the people of Marion Center were so enraged that it is a wonderthe man escaped as he did with his life, instead of being fruit for thehangman's noose, a fate he so justly merited. The wretch was arrested lastMonday, having eight indictments hanging over him, was tried on the sameday, sentenced to forty-two years in the penitentiary, and by a shrewd movementon the part of the authorities escaped being hanged by being placed aboardthe cars and started for his future residence. In appearance Calhoun isa slim built, cadaverous looking wretch, wearing chin whiskers and a blackbeard and is about 43 years old. He has hitherto been a prominent memberof the Presbyterian church, superintendent of the Sunday School, and onSundays his voice ascended on high, singing praises as a member of the churchchoir. It would be difficult to find a more hardened and despicable scoundrel,were the penitentiaries of the whole country scoured with that object inview.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Deputy United States Marshal Captain O. J. Rarick, of Arkansas City,arrived at Wichita, March 5^th, with the following Oklahoma boomersin custody: W. L. Couch, H. H. Stafford, C. E. Streeter, T. W. Eickleberger,A. C. Cord, D. J. Odell, W. H. Miller, George T. Brown, and A. J. Statle.They were arraigned severally before United States Commissioner Shearmanon the following complaint, sworn to by Lieutenant M. W. Day.

"On or about the 13^th day of February, 1885, at thatpart of the Indian Territory lying north of the Canadian river and eastof Texas and the one hundredth meridian, not set apart and occupied by theCherokee, Creek, and Seminole Indian tribe, the same being a place underthe exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, and annexed to, and constitutinga part of the United States' Judicial District of Kansas, did unlawfully,maliciously, and feloniously incite, set on foot, assist and engage in arebellion and insurrection against the authorities of the United Statesand the laws thereof, and did give aid and comfort thereto."

The complaint is made according to section 5,334, Revised Statutes. ColonelJ. R. Hallowell, United States District Attorney, and C. Hatton, AssistantUnited States Attorney, represented the Government. The boomers were notrepresented by counsel. Each pleaded not guilty and waived a preliminaryexamination. They were bound over in the sum of $3,000 each to answer thecharge in the United States District Court, an adjourned term of which willconvene in this city on the 9^th inst. The bonds were furnished.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Lawrence has lost her asylum for Idiots! Winfield wins the field in theLegislature after two pitched battles. In the first Lawrence seemed to prevail,but yesterday when the struggle was resumed, Winfield won, and got an appropriationof $25,000 to erect a new building at the flourishing young city of thesouthwest.

And behold our house (on the bill) is left unto us desolate. At leastit will be evacuated by the "gorgeous idiots" at the expirationof the two years term, or as soon as the new edifice can be completed. Well,well, if we can't find a better use for a ten acre lot with its handsomeold college edifice on Mount Oread, it will be a great pity indeed.

On sober second thought we have concluded that we don't want the idiotshere "no how." It would be idiotic in us to do so, and we wishthe Winfield fellows joy of their big luck.

Lawrence Journal.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The house did nobly yesterday in its action on the Imbecile asylum billand on the university natural history bill. The first of these providesfor the removal of the state imbecile asylum from its temporary locationin Lawrence to a permanent place at Winfield in Cowley County. Hon. E. P.Greer and Hon. L. P. King, and Hon. J. D. Maurer, the members from Cowley,made a splendid fight; and the gentlemen from Douglass County showed theirgood sense by offering no particular opposition. The state university neverought to be hampered by the immediate presence of any other state institution,and the south-central part of the state now feels that it has been properlyrecognized. We congratulate Cowley County on its success. Capital.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Captain Couch and General Hatch have both gone to the border from WichitaMarch 7^th, the former to confer with the colonists assemblingthere, and the latter to station his troops to prevent the contemplatedmovement of the Oklahoma country. It is said the boomers will start forOklahoma on Wednesday next.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The bill compelling railroad companies to fence their track through landenclosed with a lawful fence passed the House during the closing hours ofthe session and is a law. This was a measure of much importance to manyCowley County farmers, and was earnestly pressed by their delegation.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

It is stated that Gov. Martin has vetoed only one bill, that changingthe name of Ozawkee to Wabash City. We do not know his reasons for thisveto, but do know what our own reasons would have been for so doing. Ozawkeeis a good enough name for any town. It is a historic name and essentiallyKansan and is the only place in the State of that name. Wabash City hasnone of these attributes and besides the affix "City" is veryobjectionable. We would not attach that affix to a dog's name. If a Cityis a City it will be known as a City whatever its name, and it is well knownthat city is attached to the name of many places with no place of businessexcept a blacksmith shop.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Someone in the German Reichsstadt recently hinted that the German empiremight soon be found "standing against England in arms." Bismarckrose to reply: "I absolutely dispute the possibility," was hisfirst emphatic sentence, and those which followed were of the same character.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Mr. Greer's bill to appropriate $25,000 for the location at Winfield,Cowley County, of the asylum for idiotic and imbecile youth was then calledupon third reading. This bill, which removes the institution from Lawrenceto Winfield, was defeated once in the committee of the whole house, afterit had passed the Senate, and by persistent effort on the part of Mr. Greer,the action was reconsidered, and was passed to third reading. The roll wascalled, and as it progressed it was amusing to notice the change of heartsome of the members had experienced. Mr. Greer's dulcet pleadings had beentoo much for the most of them, and it was noticed as a remarkable fact thatthose gentlemen who voted against the bill were gentlemen who had no tradesto make. The bill receiving 73 ayes was passed, and Winfield was declaredthe new location for the asylum, and Ed. Greer heaved a large sigh of happiness.Capital.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Mr. Greer, of Winfield, this morning succeeded in capturing the Imbecileand Idiotic youth, and two years from now the school for this purpose willbe removed from Lawrence to Winfield, and will serve all purposes as a highschool for that beautiful little city.

Kansas City Journal.

There can be no doubt but that its removal to Winfield will elevate thetone of the institution, to such a degree, we hope, that its alumni willno longer consent to serve as Topeka correspondents for Kansas City papers.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Great excitement was created at Parsons, this State, Friday afternoonabout 4 o'clock by the discharge of a pistol five or six times in rapidsuccession. The police hurried to the spot and found two men lying on theground, fatally shot by a third, who stood calmly surveying the scene. Whenapproached by an officer, he resisted arrest and threatened to shoot anyonewho should molest him. He was finally arrested by Detective M. B. Masonand locked up. The men were all strangers, having arrived in that city fromFort Scott on the noon train that day. One, a tall, large man, was fatallyshot through the bowels. The other, a short, heavy-set man, was shot inthe back of the neck, the ball coming out of his mouth, and is also in acritical condition. They are both hard looking, and one is recognized byOfficer Mason as an old offender.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Mr. Cleveland has confirmed the semi-official announcement of his cabineta few days ago, by sending to the Senate for confirmation the followinggentlemen to the respective departments indicated.

Secretary of State: T. F. Bayard.

Secretary of the Treasury: Daniel Manning.

Secretary of the Interior: L. Q. C. Lamar.

Attorney General: A. H. Garland.

Postmaster General: Wm. F. Vilas.

Secretary of War: W. C. Endicott.

Secretary of the Navy: Wm. C. Whitney.

The appointments were promptly confirmed by the Senate.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

To enable cities of the second class to extend their corporate limits,and to repeal section 133 of chapter 100 of the laws of 1872, and chapter73 of the laws of 1875.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:

SECTION 1. That whenever the city council of any city of the second classdesire to enlarge the limits thereof from the territory adjacent thereto,said council shall, in the name of said city, present a petition to thejudge of the district court of the county in which said city is situated,setting forth by metes and bounds the territory sought to be so added, andpraying that such territory may be added thereto. Upon such petition beingpresented to said judge, with proof as notice to the time and place saidpetition shall be presented has been published for three consecutive weeksin some newspaper published in said city, he shall proceed to hear testimonyas to the advisability of making such addition, and upon such hearing, ifhe shall be satisfied that the adding of such territory to the city willbe to its interests, and will cause no manifest injury to the persons owningreal estate in the territory sought to be so added, he shall make an orderdeclaring said territory a part of the corporate limits thereof, and subjectto the laws and ordinances pertaining thereto:

Provided, That no such proceedings shall be necessary, whenthe territory sought to be added is subdivided into lots and blocks, butin such cases the city council of said city shall have power to add suchterritory to said city by ordinance.

SEC. 2. If from any cause said petition cannot be heard by said judgeat the time specified in the notice, the same may be continued from timeto time until it can be heard, without any further publication.

SEC. 3. Application for adding separate parcels of territory to saidcities may be made in the same petition, and upon such application beingmade the Judge may order any or all such parcels added thereto. Any decisionof such judge making any such addition shall be spread at length upon thejournal of the District Court of said county, and a certified copy thereofmay be recorded by the Register of Deeds of such county.

SEC. 4. That section one hundred and thirty-three of chapter 100 of thelaws of 1872 and chapter 73 of the laws of 1875, be, and the same are herebyrepealed.

SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after itspublication in the official State paper.

Approved March 4, 1885.

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of theoriginal enrolled bill now on file in my office.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed myofficial seal. Done at Topeka, Kansas, this 4^th day of March,A. D. 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

During the two sessions of the Forty-eight congress there has been introducedin the house 8,286 bills and 345 joint resolutions. The following namedmeasures of general importance have been enacted into laws: Bills to establishthe bureau of labor; to establish the bureau of animal industry and preventthe exportation of diseased cattle, and to provide for the suppression andextirpation of pleuro pneumonia and other contagious diseases among domesticanimals; to repeal the test oath act of 1862; to limit to three years thetime in which prosecutions may be begun against persons for violation ofinternal revenue laws; to establish a bureau of navigation in the treasurydepartment; to grant letter carriers at free delivery offices fifteen daysleave of absence with pay in each year; to provide a retired list for soldiersand marines who served continuously for thirty years or upward; to reducethe rate of postage on newspapers and other periodicals of the second-classwhen sent by others than publishers or news agent to one cent for each fourounces; to remove certain burdens from the American Merchant marine (theDingle shipping bill); to provide a civil government for Alaska; to preventand punish counterfeiting in the United States of bonds or other securitiesof foreign governments; to extend the duration of the court of commissionersof the Alabama claims; to make all public roads and highways post roads;to make it a felony for any person to falsely personate an officer or employeeof the United States acting under the authority of the United States orany department thereof; to relieve from the charge of desertion certainsoldiers of the late war who, after having served faithfully until the closeof the war, left their commands without leave; to provide for the locationof the branch home for disabled volunteer soldiers of the Mexican war andthe war of 1812, whose disabilities were not incurred in service againstthe United States; to reorganize a corps of Judge advocates of the army;to declare forfeited certain lands granted to and in construction of railroadand telegraph lines from Portland to Astoria, Oregon; to reorganize theinspectors general department of the army; to provide for the ascertainmentof claims of American citizens for spoliations committed by the French priorto July 31, 1801, by referring them to the court of claims; to prohibitthe importation and immigration of foreigners and aliens under contractor agreement to perform labor in this country; to declare the forfeitureof lands granted to aid the construction of the Texas Pacific railroad;to prevent the unlawful occupation of public lands; to repeal the pre-emptionand timber culture laws; to forfeit lands granted to the Atlantic &Pacific Railroad company; to provide for the settlement of claims of officersand enlisted men in the army for private property destroyed in the serviceof the United States.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

FELLOW CITIZENS. In the presence of this vast assemblage of my countrymen,I am about to supplement and seal by the oath which I shall take, the manifestationof the will of a loyal and free people. In the exercise of the power andright of self-government, they have committed to one of their fellow citizensa supreme and sacred trust, and he here consecrates himself to their service.The impressive ceremony adds little to the solemnity of the responsibilitywith which I contemplate the duty I owe to all the people of the land. Nothingcan relieve me from anxiety about their interests, lest by my neglect theirinterests may suffer; nothing is needed to strengthen my resolution to engageevery faculty in effort in the promotion of their welfare. Amid the dinof party strife the people's choice was made, but its attendant circ*mstanceshave demonstrated a new strength and safety of government by the people.In each succeeding year it more clearly appears that our Democratic principleneed no apology, and that in its fearless and faithful application is tobe found the surest guaranty of a good government. But the best result inthe operation of a government is where every citizen has a share largelydependent upon the proper limitation of purely partisan zeal and effortand a correct appreciation of the time when the heat of the partisan shouldbe merged in the patriotism of the citizen.

Today the Executive branch of the Government is transferred to new keeping,but this is still the Government of the people, and should be none the lessthe object of affectionate solicitude. At this hour animosities, politicalstrife, bitterness of partisan defeat, and the execution of partisan triumphshould be supplanted by acquiescence in the popular will and sober, conscientiousconcern for the general weal. Moreover, if from this hour we cheerfullyand honestly abandon all sectional prejudice and distrust, and determinewith manly confidence in one another to work harmoniously for the achievementof our National destiny, we shall deserve to realize all the benefits whichour happy form of government can bestow.

On this auspicious occasion we may well renew the pledge of our devotionto the Constitution, which, launched by the founders of the republic, andconsecrated by their prayers and patriotic devotion, has for almost a centuryborne the hopes and aspirations of a great people through prosperity andpeace, and through the shock of foreign conflicts and perils of domesticstrife and vicissitudes. By the father of his country our Constitution wascommended for adoption as the "result of a spirit of amity and equalconcession." In that same spirit it should be administered in orderto promote the lasting welfare of the country and insure the full measureof its priceless benefits to us and to those who will succeed to the blessingsof our national life. The large variety of diverse and competing interests,subject to Federal control, persistently seeking recognition of their claims,need give us no fear that the "greatest good to the greatest number"will fail to be accomplished if in the halls of National legislation thatspirit of amity and mutual concession shall prevail in which the Constitutionhad its birth. If this involves the surrender or postponement of privateinterests, and the abandonment of local advantages, compensation will befound in the assurance that thus the common interest is subserved and thegeneral welfare advanced. In the discharge of my official duty I shall endeavorto be guided by a just and unrestrained construction of the Constitution,a careful observance of the distinction between the powers granted to theFederal Government and those reserved to the States or to the people, bya cautious appreciation of those functions which by the Constitution andlaws have been especially assigned to the Executive Government. But he whotakes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution ofthe United States only assumes a solemn obligation which every patrioticcitizen on farm, in workshop, in busy marts of trade and everywhere shouldshare with him.

The Constitution, which prescribes his oath, my countrymen, is yours;the Government you have chosen him to administer for a time is yours; thesuffrage which executes the will of free men is yours; the laws and theentire scheme of our civil rule, from the town meeting to the State capitols,and National Capitol, is yours. Your every voter as surely as your ChiefMagistrate is under the same high sanction, and though in different spheres,exercises a public trust. Nor is this all. Every citizen owes to the countrya vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair andreasonable estimate of his fidelity and usefulness. Thus is the people'swill impressed upon the whole framework in civil politics: municipal, State,and Federal. And this is the price of our liberty and the inspiration ofour faith in the Republic. It is the duty of those serving the people inpublic places to closely limit public expenditures to the actual needs ofthe Government economically administered; because this bounds the rightof the Government to exact tribute from the earnings of labor or the prosperityof the citizens, and because public extravagance begets extravagance amongthe people. We should never be ashamed of simplicity and prudential economieswhich are best suited to the operations of a republican form of government,and most compatible with the mission of the American people.

Those who are selected for a limited time to manage public affairs arestill of the people, and may do much by their example to encourage, consistentlywith the dignity of their official functions, that plain way of life, whichamong fellow citizens aids integrity and promotes thrift and prosperity.The genius of our institutions and the needs of the people in the home lifeand the attention demanded for the settlement and development of the resourcesof our vast territory dictate a scrupulous avoidance of any departure fromthat simple policy commended by the history and traditions and the prosperityof our Republic. It is the policy of Independence, favored by our position,and defended by our known love of justice, and by our power; it is the policyof peace, suitable to our interests; it is the policy of neutrality, rejectingany share in foreign broils and ambitions upon other continents and repellingintrusion here; it is the policy of Monroe, Washington, Jefferson: "Peace,commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances withnone." A due regard for the interests and prosperity of all the peopledemands that our finances shall be established upon such a sound basis asshall secure the safety and confidence of business interests; make the wagesof labor sure and steady; that our system of revenue be so adjusted as torelieve the people from unnecessary taxation, having due regard to the interestsof capital invested and the workingmen employed in American industries,and preventing the accumulation of a surplus in the Treasury to tempt extravagancesand waste. Care for the property of the Nation, and for the needs of futuresettlers, require that the public domain should be protected from purloiningschemes and unlawful occupations. The conscience of the people demands thatthe Indians within our boundaries shall be fairly and honestly treated asthe wards of the Government, and their education and civilization promotedwith a view to their ultimate citizenship.

Polygamy in the Territories is destructive of the family relation andoffensive to the moral sense of the civilized world and should be repressed.The laws should be rigidly enforced which prohibit the immigration of aservile class to compete with American labor, with no intention of acquiringcitizenship, and bringing with them and retaining habits and customs repugnantto our civilization.

The people demands reform in the administration of the Government andthe applications of business principles to public affairs. As a means tothis end, civil service reform should be in good faith enforced. Our citizenshave a right to protection from incompetency in public employees who holdplaces solely as the reward of partisan service, and from the corruptinginfluence of those who promise, and the methods of those who expect suchrewards. And those who worthily seek public employment have a right to insistthat merit and competency shall be recognized instead of party subserviencyon the surrender of honest political belief.

In administering a Government pledged to do equal and exact justice toall men, there should be no pretext for anxiety touching the protectionof the freedmen in their rights, or security in the enjoyment of their privilegesunder the Constitution and its amendments. Discussion as to their fitnessfor the place accorded to them as American citizens is unprofitable exceptas it suggests the necessity for improvement. The fact that they are citizensentitles them to all its rights, and that relation charges them with allthe duties, obligations, and responsibilities. These topics and the constantand ever varying wants of an active and enterprising population may wellreceive the attention and patriotic endeavor of all who make and executeFederal laws. Our duties are practical and call for industrious applicationand intelligent perception of the claims of public office, and above all,a firm determination by united action to give all the people the full benefitsof the best form of the government ever vouchsafed to man.

Let us not trust human effort alone, but humbly acknowledge the powerand goodness of Almighty God, who presides over the destinies of nations,and who has at all times been revealed in our country's history. Let usinvoke His aid and His blessings upon our labors.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

During the two sessions of the Forty-eighth Congress there have beenintroduced in the House 8,286 bills and 345 joint resolutions.

The following named measures of general importance have been enactedinto laws.

The bill to establish a bureau of labor.

To establish a bureau of animal industry, prevent importing diseasedcattle, and to provide for the suppression and extirpation of pleuro-pneumoniaand other contagious diseases among domestic animals.

To repeal the test oath act of 1862.

To limit to three years the time in which prosecutions may be begun againstpersons for violation of the internal revenue laws.

To establish a bureau of navigation in the Treasury Department.

To grant letter carriers of free delivery offices fifteen days leaveof absence, with pay, in each year.

To prepare a retired list for soldiers and marines who have served continuouslyfor thirty years or upwards.

To reduce the rate of postage on newspapers and other periodicals, secondclass when sent by others than the publisher or news agents, to 1 cent toeach four ounces.

To remove certain burdens from the American merchant marine (the Dingleshipping bill).

To provide a civil Government for Alaska.

To prevent and punish counterfeiting of, in the United States, bondsor other securities of foreign Governments.

To extend the duration of the court commissioners on the Alabama claims.

To make all public roads and highways post roads.

To make it a felony for any person to falsely personate an officer oremployee of the United States, acting under the authority of the UnitedStates or any department thereof.

To relieve from the charge of desertion certain soldiers of the latewar, who, after having served faithfully until the close of the war, lefttheir command without leave.

To provide for the location of a branch home for disabled volunteer soldiersof the Mexican war and the war of 1812 whose disabilities were not incurredin service against the United States.

To reorganize the corps of Judge Advocates of the army.

To declare forfeited certain lands granted to aid in the constructionof railroad and telegraph lines from Portland to Astoria, Oregon.

To reorganize the Inspectors-General Department of the army.

To provide for the ascertainment of claims of American citizens for spoliationscommitted by the French prior to July 31, 1801, by referring them to theCourt of Claims.

To prohibit the importation and migration of foreigners and aliens undercontract or agreement to labor in this country.

To declare the forfeiture of the land granted to aid in the constructionof the Texas Pacific Railroad, and to prevent the unlawful occupation ofpublic lands.

Among the important measures yet remaining with the Conference Committeeupon points of difference between the two Houses, are the House bill torepeal the pre-emption and timber laws, the House bill to forfeit the landsgranted the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Company, and the House billto provide for the settlement of the claims of officers and enlisted menof the army for private property destroyed in the service of the UnitedStates.

The most important measures which have come before this Congress foraction and failed are as follows.

The Morrison tariff bill, to reduce import duties and war taxes.

The McPherson bill, to provide for the issue of circulating notes tothe National Banks.

The Blair bill, to provide for the establishment and temporary supportof common schools.

The bill to provide for the collection of statistics relating to marriagesand divorces.

The bill to provide for the performance of the duties of the Presidentof the United States in case of the death, removal, resignation, or inabilityof both the President and Vice-President.

The proposition to suspend the coinage of the standard silver dollar.

The substance of the House bill to provide for an appropriation for thecommencement of work on the Hennepin canal.

The House bill to provide for the restoration of Fitz John Porter tothe army. Passed both Houses, but was vetoed down.

The House bill to authorize the purchase by citizens of the United Statesand admission free of duty of foreign built ships for use in the foreigncarrying trade.

The House joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitutionto provide that the right of the citizens of the United States to vote shallnot be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account ofsex.

The Senate bill to provide for copyright for newspaper articles.

The House bill to provide that hereafter the appointed Governors of Territoriesshall be limited to persons who have been residents of said Territoriesfor at least two years.

The Senate joint resolution for passing an amendment to the Constitutionto provide that the right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridgedon account of nativity.

The bill to provide for the establishment of a uniform system of bankruptcythroughout the United States.

The House bill to establish a Board of Commissioners on Inter-State Commerce.

The bill to provide for counting the electoral vote.

Of the measures of general interest introduced during the lifetime ofthis Congress, which fail of final action, a large number passed one house,but did not pass the other, and many hundreds have never got further thanthe calendar of the house in which they originated, and will die there,while a great number have never even been reported from the committees towhich they were reported.

The bill to punish bigamy (the Hoar anti-polygamy) passed the Senate,but failed in the House.

Among the bills which passed the House, but failed to pass the Senate,are the following.

To declare the forfeiture of unearned railroad land grants.

To amend the Thurman act and provide for the investment of the sinkingfunds of the Pacific Railroads, and for a settlement of their accounts withthe Government.

To establish a Department of Agriculture, and to regulate the forms ofbills of lading and liabilities of sheep owners in regard thereto.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

There are many persons who are seriously impressed with the importanceof growing forest trees; knowing it would afford pleasure to themselvesand family, and perhaps a pecuniary benefit also provided life should belengthened to ordinary limits; or in any aspect of the case, it would bea safe investment for the children, the value of which would augment yearby year, without the ordinary risks and dangers of investments in bondsand stocks or in commercial enterprises. Yet, the question presents itself,how shall I commence? A proper realization of its importance bring to thethinking, careful person, the necessity of proper preparation and an attentionto the details of each part of the work without which there can be no certaintyof success in this or any other undertaking.

Knowing the needs of inexperienced tree planters, I have drawn from myown experience and observation, and as far as I have had facilities, havecollected like experiences, written by others in regard to the commencementand prosecution of the work. In my last article (No. 2), a list of treesis given suitable for planting in this section. Small trees of most or allof these can be bought from reliable nurserymen at reasonable rates, butthe reader may not know where he can get them and if he should, he may nothave the cash to spare to purchase them; thus he may fail to plant at allunless he can grow his own trees. I will try to give particulars in as plainand concise a manner as possible.

1. Seeds maturing in spring, and that should be planted as soon as gathered:The Elms: White, Red or Slippery and Corky. Willows, Cottonwood, Maple--Soft,Red and White. The Willow, Elm and Cottonwood having very small seeds, mustbe covered very lightly and kept moist until they germinate by a partialshading and daily watering. All the above kinds will be greatly benefittedand perhaps saved from the sun scalding them by partially shading them untilthey are two inches high; removing a part of the shading at a time untilall is removed.

2. Mulberry--Native and Russian, ripen their seed in June. The berriesshould be carefully crushed and mashed free from the pulp, and sown at once,covering lightly, and treated as above stated with other seeds. They maybe kept until the following spring, but one year will be lost by doing so.

3. Linden or Basswood ripens its seed the last of July and it shouldbe gathered as soon as the seed pods begin to turn yellow, and mixed withsand to prevent heating as well as drying, placed in some vessel in thecellar and kept slightly moist until the following spring. Do not planttoo early, as they come up quickly and are liable to be killed by springfrosts.

4. The following kinds ripen in autumn and should be planted soon afterbeing gathered, or preserved in a moist condition until spring: Hickorywith Pecan, Oak, Ash, Maples that ripen their seed in the fall, Walnut,Butternut and Persimmon. On account of the danger from mice and squirrels,none of these should be planted until spring. Hickories, Oaks, Walnut andButternut may be put on the ground and slightly covered during the winter,where you may see that the above named enemies do not rob you. Ash and Mapleripening in the fall, should be treated as directed for keeping Linden seed.

5. Seed ripening in autumn that are kept in a dry state and safe frommice are Catalpas, Red Bud, Ailanthus, Green Ash and Box Elder.

6. Dogwood, by cleaning in the fall the seed from its pulp and packingin sand, in the cellar or in a box out of doors and planting in early spring,some may grow, but oftentimes the seed will not germinate until the secondand sometimes the third season. Red Cedar Evergreen: This should be savedand cleaned the same as the above, but should be left in the box in theopen air, thus subjecting them to the freezing of winter. Plant in moistwell prepared soil, in early spring, the last two named, covered one-halfinch deep and partially shade during the entire season the led of Cedar,allowing the led to remain undisturbed for the second season.

7. Kentucky Coffee Bean, Honey Locust and Black Locust seed must havescalding water poured on them until they are just covered before they areplanted. Osage seed must be soaked in water for several days, changing thewater each day to prevent souring. If the water is kept tepid warm, it willhasten their sprouting; when the sprouts begin to show, they should be plantedin shallow drills and covered almost one inch deep.

8. Cottonwood, Willow, Ailanthus, Catalpa, Black and Russian Mulberrycan be propagated by cuttings taken from last year's growth. The cuttingsshould be ten inches long and cut before severe freezing occurs. If cutimmediately after the falling of the leaves and buried in a half uprightposition with butt ends down, covering them near, or quite to the tops andleft thus until early spring, and then forced down in a half inclined positionto the same depth, in deeply worked soil, either in nursery rows or wherethey are to remain permanently, but a small proportion of them will failto strike root and grow. Another plan is, after making the cuttings andtying in small bundles, they are inverted in a trench say twelve inchesdeep on top and thus left to callous the butt end, it being up by the sun'sheat in early spring, after which they are planted as above directed.

The Cottonwood, Ailanthus and Willows are readily propagated from cuttingsprepared and treated in almost any manner, but Catalpa and the two kindsof Mulberries I would not propagate in this way, as they grow readily fromseed and make much finer trees.

In growing trees, the seed bed should be deeply worked and well pulverized,and if the bed is free from weed and grass seed, the seed may be sown broadcast;if not, then sow in drills one inch or so deep, covering the seed from one-fourthof an inch to three-fourths of an inch deep, being governed generally bythe size of the seed. The larger the seed, the deeper you may cover them.

The Maples are quite easy to grow and require very similar treatmentas given in growing a crop of corn.

All trees having a strong top root and not many lateral roots, such asWalnut, Butternut, Hickory, Pecan, Persimmons and Oaks, should be plantedwhere they are to grow, as they do not transplant well. All these enumeratedabove should be grown in nursery row or led and transplanted at one yearof age. It is apparent that 10,000 seedlings can be grown and taken goodcare of in the matter of culture and transplanted where they are to remainat less expense of labor than in growing the same number scattered in hillsfour feet apart over near four acres of ground. Always prefer one year oldtrees for transplanting. Older trees will do well, but require especialcare in handling, etc.

Locusts, Mulberries, Catalpas and Osages seed should be sown in drills,three feet apart; the drills are best made by an ordinary corn masher; theseed dropped, say forty of them per foot. The best tool to cover the seedwith is a steel toothed rake drawn rapidly back and forth across the drills,being careful not to cover them too deep. As the sprouts begin to burstthrough the ground, by dexterously using the rake as above described, thecrust will be broken and all small weeds destroyed. This will save muchfuture labor.

All nursery trees should be kept clean of weeds and the ground well cultivateduntil about the middle of August, when all cultivation should cease thatthe young trees may properly ripen their wood. These directions are alsoapplicable to the forest plantation, the orchard and the berry patches.In collecting seeds and cuttings, care should be given to get branch fromtrees of vigorous growth and fine form.

One tree I have neglected to name in this article; that is the Sycamore.The buttons containing the seed may be cleaned and treated as directed forBasswood or Linden. It may also be grown from cuttings, treated as describedunder that head.

We have now come to the last of October and November, the nursery treesbeing of one season's growth. They should now be lifted with the spade orif there is a quantity to be taken up, it can be done by running a two horseplow deeply under the row. They should be counted and sorted, the smallerfrom the large trees. Then hell them in deeply in a trench, covering thetops one-half that all may be protected from severe freezing and suddenthawing. The following spring brings the planting operation.

In every case use all the facilities at your command in order to preparethe ground in the best possible manner by deep plowing and pulverization.Without occupying space in referring to the great number of the best authoritieson tree planting, allow me to state most emphatically that the proper distanceto plant your trees is four feet each way. You may doubt this statement,but your experience, as it has with others, will have its correctness. Iwill not give the advantages of thus setting except someone requests meto do so.

Marking your ground one way with a common corn marker and furrowing asdeeply as possible the other way, with two strong horses and a large plow,is the best method. In handling trees, ever bear in mind that if the rootsare dead, your trees will not grow and if the roots are in any materialdegree injured by mutilation or drying in the open air, the tree is to thesame degree injured and its life endangered.

The cultivation of the trees should continue three years and should beabout the same as a good farmer would give his corn crop. If the soil isgood, the cultivation may stop at the close of the second season, and thespring following the grove may be sown to Red Clover and used for hog pasture.If any of the trees head too low or have any side branches that interferewith working them, such limbs should be cut off; but nature will ordinarilydo the trimming in the best manner. If you wish to plant only a few treesand do not want to cultivate them by mulching them heavily, you will applyfavorable conditions for success.

The roots of evergreen trees are extremely sensitive to exposure to theatmosphere and especially a drying wind, so much so that they will not livebut little, if any longer, in the open air than a person will with his headunder water. A lack of this knowledge or a proper attention of the sameis a more prolific cause of the many failures to grow trees than all otherscombined.

Your ground being ready, prepare a puddle (of earth and water) of theconsistency of thick paint, into which dip the roots of your trees. Beingthus heavily coated with mud, they will not injure by the exposure untilthey are planted. Each tree should be held in an upright position whilethe loose earth is drawn over the roots by a hoe or spade; care being takento set them at the depth they stood in the nursery row and that all spacesabout the roots are filled with mellow soil; then pack the same by steppingon each side of the tree. To complete filling about the trees and the deepfurrows between, throw a light furrow with a low share plow or other suitableimplement. In planting, the help of a boy to carry and hold the trees inposition will expedite the work. JAS. F. MARTIN.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

In a previous article the profits of forestry were treated of, instancesbeing given demonstrating the fact that but few, if any agricultural pursuits,will yield larger returns for the investment; and where the conditions arefavorable and proper attention given, no enterprise is so certain of favorableresults financially. Some may say that most of the cases previously cited,were "far fetched," and that like success is not to be found nearhome and among our acquaintances. The care of the farm and ill health inmy family have prevented me from visiting the owners of a great many grovesto be found all over this section of the state; but I have called upon afew of my neighbors, and have collected the following important facts, whichfacts outweigh my theories.

Our esteemed friend, J. W. Millspaugh, in visiting his old home in Mt.Pleasant, Iowa, saw lumber made from soft maple trees, set by his own hands22 years previous, that squared [?] inches; in order to do this the trunkwas 24 inches in diameter, being a growth of over one inch per annum. Thislumber was made into furniture for which it is well adapted.

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Mr. M. L. Martin has catalpa and box elder on his upland farm, plantedeight years ago. The former measure 7½ inches in diameter, and willaverage one good post and one to two heavy stakes per tree; and the latterwill average eight inches in diameter. It may be well to say just here,that all measurements of trunks are taken one foot from the ground.

Mr. T. B. Ware has nearly two acres of soft maple, walnut, and cottonwood,and is certainly almost the finest artificial grove that it has been thepleasure of the writer to visit. The soil is excellent, second bottom, andthe trees have received careful attention from the competent owner. Theywere planted 8 x 8 feet, and corn was grown between the rows for the firstthree years, and a crop of pumpkins the fourth year; since which, no cultivationhas been given them. All were planted the spring of 1875. The nuts beingdropped for the walnut trees; small trees being transplanted of the otherkinds. The following are the measurements, carefully taken.

Walnut. Circumference 21 to 27 in. Height: 35 ft.

Elm. Circumference 18 in. Height 30 ft.

Soft Maple. Circumference 30 in. Height: 50 ft.

Cottonwood. Circumference 45 in. Height 65 ft.

One cottonwood, growing isolated from the grove, measured sixty inchesin circumference and will make three-fourths of a cord of wood.

There are 800 soft maples, which would at a bare estimate make 100 cordsof wood. It is difficult to correctly estimate the present and cash valueof this grove, but it is not less than $600. Mr. Ware took an importantprize two years ago, for the largest yield of wheat, per acre, in this section,and is uniformly successful with his farm operations. Yet none has broughtso large a profit as his timber. One important factor of the value of thisgrove is the attraction it gives to birds; thousands seek it as a roostingplace. One of the results of this, being a natural accumulation of guano,from one to two inches thick, which Mr. Ware finds to be the best fertilizerhe ever used on the farm. This beautiful belt of trees is very justly thepride of its owner and the admiration of all who see it.

Mr. I. I. Hilliard has standing in his front yard a sycamore tree, twelveyears of age, that is forty-two feet in circumference and twenty-five feetin height. This is a beautiful specimen and, like all of this species, whenstanding alone, makes a handsomely formed head and a desirable shade.

We found on the farm of Mr. Pennington, in the Arkansas bottom, walnuts,catalpas, and cottonwoods of eleven years growth.

Largest Walnut circumference: 25 in.

Average: 17 in.

Average height: 30 ft.

Largest Catalpa circumference: 40 in.

Average: 26 in.

Average height: 30 ft.

Largest Cottonwood circumference: 73 in.

Height will average one cord of wood: 60 ft.

The walnuts and catalpas stand from six to ten feet apart. Mr. Penningtonhas the black locust growing in a small way, but on account of its sproutingtendency is trying to destroy it, but with a poor prospect of success. Thecatalpa being a much more desirable tree, renders the growing of black locustquite unnecessary.

The last grove examined belongs to Mr. Josiah Hahn, who is a neighborof Mr. Pennington. He has an acre of catalpas. The seed having been broughtfrom Harrison County, Indiana, in the spring of 1875, growing in a seedbed that season and transplanted the following spring by Mr. Pennington.The age of the trees being nine years from the seed. They were cultivatedfor three seasons. The following gives the present size.

Largest circumference: 31 in.

Average: 18 in.

Height: 24 ft.

Number of trees: 1,136

They will average three good posts to the tree, making 3,408 posts; estimatingthese at fifteen cents each, which is below their true value, it amountsto $511.20. This is equal to $584.22 per acre for the time, which is eightyears that they have occupied the ground, or at the rate of upwards of $73.00per acre. The cost for labor, rent, and interest on this seven-eighths ofan acre will not exceed forty dollars, which leaves a net profit of $417.20,or $58.90 per year, and this without labor. This grove, if properly managed,will be a perpetual income to the proprietor, for by cutting the timberwhile in the dormant state, and permitting only one sprout to grow fromthe stump, this will in six years time make as large a tree as its parentdid in eight years.

Who will say that timber culture is unprofitable? Why, brother farmer,what others are doing, may you not do likewise? Would it not be wise tocommence this spring.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Recap. R. L. Walker, Register, Land Office at Wichita, Notice re settler,William J. Davis, of Winfield P. O., before Ed. Pate, District Clerk atWinfield, on April 4, 1885. Witnesses: John Marks, David Marks, Mary Page,and Charles Norton, all of Winfield P. O.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Recap Notice of Final Settlement from R. L. Walker, Register, Land Officeat Wichita.

Settler establishing proof of claim: Richard . District Clerkat Winfield, Ed. Pate. Witnesses: Casper Ralf, Winfield; R. Q. Paugh andPeter Paugh, Silverdale; W. H. H. Maris, Winfield.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

I have moved my horses to Smith's Stable, north of the Court House, Winfield,Kansas, where they will stand for services during this season. S. ALLISON.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

I will pay $2 for the best trio of Plymouth Rock chickens exhibited atthe Cowley County Fair next fall raised from eggs bought of me.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Other Goods in proportion. These goods and prices only need to be seento be appreciated.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Represent the widely known and solid German Insurance Company, of Freeport,Illinois, which makes a specialty of Farm Risk against Fire, Lightning andTornado; also other sound companies.

Are Agents for The Mutual Trust Fund Life Association and the MutualBenefit Life Association, of New York, conducted on the assessment plan,and furnishing the safest and cheapest plan of Life Insurance known.

Also Agents of the Metropolitan Safety Fund Accident Association, ofChicago for accident insurance.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Capt. H. H. Siverd has signified his candidacy for re-election to theoffice of constable at the coming city election, and will receive the warmsupport of every voter in favor of fealty to duty and good government. TheCaptain has filled this office for years and is thoroughly well schooledin its every intricacy. He has shown himself to have no superior as an officer.A man of firm convictions, strict integrity, and undaunted courage, he isalways found on the side of right and duty. Law-breakers find no leniencyin Capt. Siverd, and yet in dealing with them his genuine kindness of heartinsures treatment in harmony with human justice and equity. His transactionof civil business within the scope of his office is always expeditious,reliable, and satisfactory. His general capability and popularity insurehis almost unanimous election. Many of the strongest enemies to principlesthe Captain so warmly advocates, recognize and honor his boldness in favorof right and duty and are found among his supporters.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Says the Wellington Press: "Last night a stranger fromthe east stopped in the city, but he could not be induced to remain here.He said he would go to Cowley County and take a homestead. The enterprisingpapers of Winfield ought to publish the advantages of homesteading on theprairies of that county and get the territory settled up. We imagine itwill take about $5,000 to 'homestead' in Cowley."

Yes, Mr. Wellington Press, the wonderful beauty, enterprise,and productiveness of our "territory" are being truthfully heraldedto the world and are drawing like a mustard plaster. Every train bringsin immigrants who have passed others of the grand counties of Southern Kansas,for a "homestead" in the Belle of the Union and the Paradise ofKansas. Cowley is climbing the golden stair of worth and popularity in amanner bewildering to her neighbors. Her development so far has been magical,but this year will outstrip all previous records.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Died, on 8^th Avenue, at her late home, on the 6^thinst., Mrs. Clara M., wife of Samuel H. Houk. Mrs. Houk was born in PennsylvaniaAugust 3, 1882; was at the time of her death aged 32 years, 6 months, and23 days. She was united in marriage to Samuel Houk June 20, 1883, by Rev.Cairns. She was baptized into the fellowship of the Baptist church of Winfieldby Rev. Cairns February 2, 1881. She was greatly beloved by all who knewher. Though a great sufferer during her last illness, she offered no wordsof complaint, but patiently waited the Master's call. She leaves her husband,two little sons and a little daughter, with a large circle of friends tomourn their loss. The funeral services were held in the Baptist church,on Sabbath last, before a very large audience of mourning friends, conductedby the pastor.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Ten of Sheridan township's young boys from fifteen to twenty years ofa*ge are on trial in Justice Buckman's court, on charge of bad conduct atthe Sheridan lyceum, with fair chances of paying fines and costs. It seemsthat these boys have been making trouble at Sheridan gatherings for sometime past: cutting horses loose, turning collars upside down on horses,taking nuts from wagon axles and letting the wheels drop, and other diabolicalacts. This is a habit too often indulged in by the youths of country gatherings,not with malicious intentions but under the idea that it is smart. A goodlesson or two will teach the boys that manly, honorable conduct is the onlysuccessful and sure basis to build on.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The Social Club has arranged to close its "hops" for the seasonwith a calico ball on Friday evening, the 29^th inst. Invitationswill be extended personally by members of the club to those for whom theyare willing to vouch, and indications point to a pleasurable affair. Alwaysbeautiful and charming, how much more so will Winfield's young ladies bewhen attired in simple, fresh, and captivating calico. Among the socialfeatures of the city, none have been more successful or universally enjoyedthan the bi-weekly hops of the Winfield Social Club and the popularity ofthis winter will not soon be forgotten by devotees of the Terpsichoreanart.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

"H. W. Creswell, one of the best known ranchmen in the Texas Panhandle,"says the Arkansas City Traveler, "who has just returned fromEurope, has sold to a company of foreign capitalists, the 'C' ranch, consistingof 150,000 or 200,000 acres of land and about 40,000 cattle. The price ofthe land we do not know, but the cattle are to be counted out in the summerat $27 per head, this season's calves to be thrown in. The transaction willfoot up over $1,500,000, on which $100,000 has been paid as a guarantee.This is the largest sale made in this country for many years."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

At the regular business meeting of the Ladies Library Association onTuesday of last week, the following named ladies were elected as officersand directors for the ensuing year: President, Mr. D. A. Millington; Vice-President,Mrs. W. R. Kirkwood; Secretary, Mrs. N. J. Lundy; Treasurer, Mrs. C. M.Wood; Librarian, Mrs. W. L. Mullen. Directors: Mrs. G. W. Miller, Mrs. F.W. Finch, Mrs. C. Taylor, Mrs. Dr. Graham, Mrs. Dr. Perry, Mrs. Dr. Tandy,Mrs. J. S. Myers, Mrs. C. Strong, and Miss E. Strong.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Our spring catalogue will soon be ready for distribution, and we willvisit Winfield this spring with plants, bulbs, seeds, etc., and desire thosewishing anything in our line to wait our coming and make selections fromour stock. We will be at Friend's music store. Exact date later. BristolSisters, Topeka, Kansas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

A fine line of residences in the city for sale at prices to suit buyers.Farms for sale in all parts of the county. Insurance written on all classesof insurable property. Money loaned on farms and city property by H. T.Shivvers. Office in McDonald building, 2^nd door upstairs.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Dr. T. H. Elder, who has been practicing medicine at Udall during thewinter, has permanently located in Winfield, with rooms over Curns &Manser's building. He is a physician of ability and experience, having practicedfor twenty-one years in his former home, Albia, Ia.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Our hose companies have been presented with splendid fireman's rubbercoats, M. L. Robinson and A. H. Doane being the donators. It was a presentvery much needed and is highly appreciated by the boys.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The young people of the Baptist church have changed the time of theirprayer meeting from Thursday to Tuesday evening. All are invited to attendthe Tuesday evening meetings.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

A series of very successful revival meetings are being conducted at theChristian church by the pastor, Elder J. H. Myers, assisted by Elder H.D. Gans.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The progressive euchre mania has struck our neighboring cities. WillWinfield catch the infection?

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Several more were baptized on last Sabbath evening at the close of theservices at the Baptist church.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The large audience room of the Baptist church was completely filled onlast Sabbath at both services.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The Cowley County Bank, of Arkansas City, has been made a First National.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

S. Kleeman is in the east on a purchasing tour.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Dr. W. R. Kirkwood is in Chicago on business.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Will Robinson came in from the Crescent City Friday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Fred Barron left Monday for a permanent residence at Ashland.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Judge H. D. Gans leaves Monday next for a trip to the World's Fair.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Mr. J. R. Atkins, of Cherryvale, spent Sunday with Winfield friends.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Will D. Rothrock and bride left Tuesday for a future home in Portland,Oregon.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

M. L. Robinson has joined his wife and Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Read for avacation at New Orleans.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Rev. J. H. Reider left Monday for Toledo, Ohio, summoned by the dangerousillness of a brother.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Nancy Johnson has made report of real estate to the Probate Judge, inestate of John Wesley Snyder.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Lee Bales, from Windsor township, languishes in waiting for a preliminary,on charge of adultery.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Will Green, of Champaign, Illinois, an old friend of Hop Shivvers, isvisiting here and may locate, in dentistry.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Mr. O. G. Randall, in the Utah mail service, spent last week visitinghis uncle, Mr. Irve Randall, of this city.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Miss Maggie Taylor, of the millinery firm of Taylor & Taylor, departedyesterday for an eastern purchasing tour.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Capt. J. B. Nipp is among Winfield's delegation who are attending theG. A. R. encampment at Fort Scott this week.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Frank Doane, brother of our A. H., with his wife, came in last week fromDanville, Illinois, to permanently locate.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Mr. C. M. Riggin, of Mt. Sterling, Ohio, is visiting his uncle, Mr. F.W. Maddux, of Walnut township, and may purchase property and locate.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Billy Dawson is visiting his parents at Independence. We shall not accuseBilly of matrimonial intentions this trip.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Miss Clara Brass, of Lawrence, and Mrs. Sherman, of Springfield, Mo.,are visiting their sister, Mrs. D. L. Kretsinger.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Joe H. Buckman, late of McLean County, Illinois, brother of our G. H.,has been visiting here during the past week. He has located in Osage County.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Dr. W. R. Davis has been up from Vinita, I. T., for several days. Hecame to plat a part of his farm, near the mounds, for an addition to thecity.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Master Fred Dunham's fourteenth birthday was enjoyably celebrated atthe residence of his aunt, Mrs. C. H. Greer, by a large number of his youngfriends, Monday evening.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Mr. J. S. Neer, of Windsor township, one of Cowley's largest sheep raisers,was in the "hub" Tuesday, and reports that his sheep have comethrough the winter splendidly.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

T. H. Soward, J. E. Snow, Chas. Steuven, and others are in attendanceupon the Grand Encampment of the G. A. R. of Kansas, as representativesand visitors from Winfield Post.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

John Black and Nancy Sicks, Albert Whiteman and Alvira Tomlin, BenjaminCampbell and Irene Goodwill, have committed matrimony since our last, asappears by Judge Gans' record.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Mr. Wm. Dowler, from Marshall County, West Virginia, an acquaintanceof Mr. W. R. McDonald, arrived last week. He has purchased property in PleasantValley and cast his lot permanently with Cowley.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Mr. Wm. H. Richardson, of Pleasant Valley, enjoyed a visit recently fromhis brother, Mr. H. T. Richardson, of Macoupin County, Illinois, who wasgreatly enchanted by the beauty and possibilities of Cowley.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Capt. J. S. Hunt and wife left Monday for a week at Fort Scott. The Captaingoes as a delegate from Winfield Post to the Grand encampment of the G.A. R., while Mrs. Hunt is a delegate from our Woman's Relief Corps.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Messrs. James Ostrander and John Stayman arrived last week from ChampaignCity, Illinois, and will open a foundry and machine shop in the Jordon buildingon north Main street as soon as the machinery can be put in.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

E. H. Nixon and L. D. Zenor, two of Winfield's most popular young men,have arranged to launch in the real estate and loan business at MedicineLodge soon. Their departure will cause regret among many friends, whosebest wishes for success will accompany them.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

A jolly crowd of Winfield's best young men, composed of Robt. Hudson,Addison Brown, Jas. A. Cairns, W. L. P. Burney, R. J. Brown, Will H. Hodges,Robt. Rogers, James Lorton, and George Reed spent Sunday last in Wellington.Their comparison is largely in favor of the Queen City of Southern Kansas,Winfield.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Mr. B. B. Vandeventer, now of Versailles, Illinois, is here looking afterproperty interests. Mr. Vandeventer is one of Winfield's early-day settlers,when he secured the splendid piece of land just north of the Southern Kansasrailroad. It is now worth a handsome sum, and will be platted for anotheraddition to the city.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Rev. B. Kelly dedicated a fine new Methodist church at Peabody, MarionCounty, last Sunday. He raised twenty-five hundred dollars by voluntarycontributions in forty minutes, more than removing the entire debt of thechurch. The Reverend speaks very highly of the enterprise and moral worthof Peabody's citizens.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

T. R. Bryan last week sold his interest in the grocery establishmentof Bryan & Lynn to his partner, J. B. Lynn, who continues it in connectionwith his dry goods business. Mr. Bryan is now a "gentleman of leisure,"but of course has an eye on some new enterprise in the Queen City that willsoon make him as busy as ever. T. R. is one of Winfield's most influentialand valued permanencies.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

George Cairns is spending this week in Winfield, after two months' evangelicalwork with Major Penn at Wichita and Newton. George is devoting his splendidmusical and intellectual talents to a noble work and has already been themeans of accomplishing much for the spiritual elevation of humanity. Hestarts for New Orleans Monday, where he will spend a short vacation beforereturning to Texas. James A. will likely accompany him.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

R. S. Howard came in last week. He was appointed deputy sheriff for thepurpose of assisting in running down Spencer, who committed the cold-bloodedmurder near Ashland last week, the particulars of which appear elsewhere.It was on this mission that he reached Winfield and Arkansas City, thinkingperhaps the murderer would try to skip for Oklahoma with the boomers. Mr.Howard says Ashland is having a wonderful boom. Over thirty new houses havegone up since the break of winter and others are being built as fast aslumber and mechanics can be secured.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Wm. Schafstall and Lewis Miller were brought before Justice Buckman Saturdaynight on charge of assault and battery, committed upon Chas. Bode, nearBurden. The three got into a dispute over a game of euchre, at the houseof a neighbor, and "passed the lie," but finally Schafstall andMiller started for home. Bode waited some time and also started for home.When some distance from the house, his antagonists came from their lairalongside the road and gave him an awful thrashing, making his note as flatas a pancake, and gashing his head badly. The defendants got off with twentydollars apiece and costs. Miller cashed up, but Schafstall languishes.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The relatives and friends of John R. Smith, of Sheridan township, madehim a complete surprise Saturday evening last and took possession of hishome, in honor of his 45^th birthday. A congregation of Smith'swas there gathered that did great honor to that historic and familiar name.About thirty-five relatives of John R. were present and with assistanceof friends did obeisance to a grand feast. Mr. E. J. Johnson says it wasone of the pleasantest occasions yet given in Sheridan. It will ever remaingreen in the memory of Mr. Smith and those present. John R. is an old lineDemocrat, but withal one of the staunchest citizens of Cowley and we areglad to note this testimony of esteem on the part of his neighbors and friends.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Sheriff McIntire took in Bob Dowty, wanted for murder in Wayne County,Ohio, at Arkansas City, Monday. Mr. John Croco, formerly of Wayne County,recognized Dowty in Winfield last week and later at Arkansas City, and havingnoticed in his old home paper that Dowty had shot a man in the back in asaloon row and skipped, notified Sheriff McIntire, who at once telegraphedthe authorities of Wayne County, receiving an answer that the right manhad been spotted and to arrest him at once. Dowty is reported as a desperatecharacter and kept the handle of a savage looking revolver in sight duringhis perambulations, but McIntire's manner of "bringing down" onhim silenced his bravo. Dowty acknowledges that he is the man wanted andsays his object in coming west was to move on Oklahoma with the boomers.He now languishes in waiting for the Wayne County officials.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The Winfield Enterprise Association is now thoroughly organized and isbringing its power to bear on various schemes whose success will set Winfieldseveral rounds up the ladder of prosperity. Its third meeting was held onThursday evening last, when the membership was found to have reached overtwo hundred of our prominent businessmen, most of whom were present andhave since put two dollars each into a sinking fund. J. C. Long was chosenchairman and D. L. Kretsinger secretary. A committee consisting of G. H.Allen, T. H. Soward, Walter Denning, C. M. Leavitt, and Frank H. Greer wasappointed to report a list of names for directors of the Association. Thefollowing were reported and unanimously elected: Wm. Whiting, J. B. Lynn,M. L. Robinson, J. C. Long. H. B. Schuler, J. L. Horning, D. A. Millington,T. H. Soward, A. H. Doane, W. P. Hackney, J. E. Conklin, J. P. Baden, andW. G. Graham. No better men could have been chosen as directors. They areall men of enterprise and energy: men who have the interests of our cityand county at heart and the necessary nerve and ability to secure everyenterprise possible for our advancement. The committee previously appointedto devise a plan for the establishment of a college in Winfield, composedof W. R. Kirdwood, J. H. Reider, A. H. Gridley, and A. H. Jennings, reportedas follows.

Your committee, appointed to consider and report upon the subject ofan educational institution of a higher grade, beg leave to present the following,viz:

1^st. We believe it to be eminently desirable that such aninstitution should be located in Winfield, and at the same time entirelyfeasible.

2^nd. We are informed that the South Western Kansas Conference,of the M. E. Church is about to locate a College in the southern centralportion of the State.

3^rd. We therefore recommend that a committee of businessmenbe appointed who shall make a canvass of the city and county, solicitingsubscriptions to a fund to be used for the purpose of securing the locationof said College in Winfield; and we recommend that the work be done at once,inasmuch as the conference above named, meets on the 16^th inst.

4^th. Inasmuch as it is proposed at an early day to vote bondsto the amount of $15,000 for the purpose of erecting another school building,we beg to suggest whether it be possible legally to vote for the erectionof such building--to build it on plans suitable for College purposes, and,if the College can be secured, to be turned over to the board of trusteesof the College for their use, while the high school should be merged inthe preparatory department of the College, it being understood that, incase the College is located here, it shall be properly endowed and equippedby the Conference.

The Directors held their first meeting on Friday evening last and permanentlyofficered the Association as follows: President, H. B. Schuler; Vice-President,D. A. Millington; Secretary and Treasurer, T. H. Soward. Committees wereappointed to sift and develop certain enterprises that have been sprung.This organization means much for Winfield and Cowley County. It is composedof the most harmonious and enterprising lot of businessmen that any citywas ever blessed with--men who are determined to make Winfield the metropolisof Southern Kansas and Cowley the most populous, prosperous, and popularcounty in the State. With natural advantages unexcelled, citizens a unitfor advancement, substantial immigration pouring in, and public and privateimprovements all around, the future of Cowley looks bright indeed.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Chas. Schmidt and Mr. Wagner made a novel wager Tuesday. Schmidt bet$11.50 against $5 that Wagner couldn't walk every sidewalk in the city inten hours. Wagner started out yesterday morning at 9 o'clock, Schmidt ridingalong the different streets traversed to see that the job was done accordingto agreement. Much interest was manifested, and it looks as though Wagnerhad a mammoth contract on his hands; but he is a man of powerful muscleand is climbing over the smooth stone pavements at this writing at a stem-windinggait, in a drizzling rain.

Final. At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon Wagner had traversed every sidewalkas per agreement and was declared winner. Though an exceptionally wiry manand used to hard labor, he caps this as his hardest day's work, and wouldn'ttry it again for twice the wager won. He estimates the distance traveledat from thirty-five to forty miles, a record unparalleled by an amateur.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

W. H. Gustin, Road Master of the central division of the Santa Fe railroad,met a horrible death at Arkansas City Monday. He came down from Newton onthe regular passenger train, on official business, and as the train pulledup to the depot in Arkansas City, he attempted to jump from the engine tothe platform while the train was yet in motion. He lost his balance, strucksome baggage on the platform, and fell backward under the wheels of thebaggage car. The wheels passed over the center of his body, almost severingit and causing instantaneous death. Gustin resided at Newton and leavesa wife and four children. He had been a faithful official of the Santa Fefor years, and had the esteem of many acquaintances.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The Woman's Christian Temperance Union desire us to state that none ofthe money given to the Local Relief Society went to the care of the unfortunategirl for whom the Union has secured a place in the Leavenworth Home forthe Friendless. The ladies paid all these expenses from their own individualcontributions. The ladies took the girl from the jail in response to anappeal from the County Commissioners, cared for her through pure christianmotives, and willingly shoulder any responsibility that attaches to thematter.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

A. Herpich, the Merchant Tailor, has just received an elegant assortmentof seasonable foreign and domestic suitings, has a corps of experiencedworkmen, and is thoroughly prepared to turn out work unexcelled. In qualityand artistic design his stock is always superior and his workmanship andmanner of dealing universally satisfactory. Those anticipating a springor summer suit in style, quality, and fit the equal of any, should leavetheir order with Mr. Herpich.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Sheriff McIntire and Jailor Finch have been circulating petitions andhave secured the names of a large number of the voters of the County askingthe appropriation of $15,000 for the building of a new jail. No argumentis necessary to show the necessity of this new jail: every man who everlooked into the old rookery we now have is convinced of it. The petitionwill likely be acted upon next Monday when the County Commissioners holdan adjourned session.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Several persons have been bitten by mad dogs in Wellington recently.They went to Paola, applied the mad-stone in possession of a party there,and were cured. The stone adhered to the hand of one of the victims forten hours. Wellington is now killing every canine that perambulates herstreets without its "chawing" apparatus muzzled.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

All persons having ordered trees of the "Star Nursery," Dayton,Ohio, please meet at the COURIER office next Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock,for the purpose of combining, if necessary, against said nursery, and totalk over matters pertaining to the same. Pleasant Valley.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The Band of Hope meets Friday next at the Baptist church. This band,under superintendency of Mrs. E. D. Garlick, is proving a potent featurein educating the youth of our city in temperance principles.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Mrs. Hartwell and Miss Books, accomplished teachers, who have recentlyarrived from the east, will open a preparatory school in the Farringer building,south Main street, Tuesday next.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Farmers should note carefully the article of Dr. C. Perry in anothercolumn, and assist in the elevation and advancement of their vocation byaiding him in collecting the facts desired.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Parties desiring hair work of a superior make, such as hair chains, necklaces,ear-drops, etc., also first-class stamping, will do well to call on Mrs.Addie W. Sykes, north Menor St.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

There will be an examination of applicants for teachers' certificatesin the East Ward School building on the 14^th inst., commencingat 10 o'clock a.m.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

For Sale: On the Fair Grounds, Winfield, Kansas, 20 head of fine cross-bredyearling Galloway bulls. J. Wade McDonald.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

A bevy of nine musicians awoke the echoes Tuesday evening as a serenadingparty. Their music was charming.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

It is with deep regret that we chronicle the death of Ben B. Manning,son of Col. E. C. Manning, a pioneer of Winfield and for years one of hermost influential citizens, which occurred at his home in Washington, D.C., on Friday night last. The writer had the pleasure of spending severaldays with Ben at his home last summer and found him to have developed intoa bright, fine-looking, and reliable young man--one of good habits and splendidpromise. The Colonel, in a letter to Capt. T. B. Myers, gives the followingparticulars of the death: "As previously announced by telegraph, Benis dead. He died at 5 p.m. March 6^th, at home. On March 4^th(Inauguration day) there were more than 100,000 strangers in the city. PennsylvaniaAvenue, the principle thoroughfare of the city, is where the greatest throngassembled. During the ceremonies no vehicles were allowed upon this Avenue;but after 5 p.m. this restriction was removed. Ben, accompanied by a youngman named Malony, had gone down to the Avenue to see the fireworks and aboutthe time the Kansas Flambeau club were giving their exhibition, a one horsecab struck Ben in such a way as to throw him violently to the ground andpass over his body. When he was picked up, he was insensible and never wasfully restored to consciousness again. He was at first taken to what isknown as the Emergency Hospital, not far from where the accident happened,where his wounds were dressed, and then his companion procured a cab andbrought him home about 10:15 p.m. I had two doctors with him. Everythingwas done that could be done to relieve and save him. The blow that is supposedto have caused death was received in the back of the head, and is believedto have been inflicted by the end of the shaft. From both surgeons and hiscompanion I learn that he had not used any intoxicants that day. In fact,Ben had grown to be a good boy. He minded me, was steady and worked everyday. He attended church on Sabbaths and was really a comfort and pleasureto us. I refer to his condition at the time of the accident particularlylest some of his Winfield acquaintances might think he had been drinkingon that day and was intoxicated. I have had the body embalmed and will haveservice at the house tomorrow (Sabbath) at 4 p.m. and in the evening sendit west by express. Meet them at the depot and take them to the cemetery.Should any of his or our friends accompany you in this sad office and desireto look at the remains, you can open the outside case and slide the lidoff the casket, where they can be seen through the glass of the casket.Bury him next to and on the south side of his mother. So long as I havecontrol of the children, I want them buried by her side. And there is whereI want to finally lie myself. While writing this letter Mr. and Mrs. G.S. Manser of Winfield called. E. C. MANNING."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Those persons who have been so hasty in condemning the action of theladies of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in trying to reclaim thepoor girl over whom so much fuss has been raised should be able by thistime to take a sober second thought and must be ashamed of their action.The ladies did no more and no less than their duty. Their attention wasfirst called to the matter by the following letter.

"To the W. C. T. U. of Winfield: I am directed by the Board of countycommissioners to appeal to you in behalf of a young girl, Lydia Vandermark,now incarcerated in the county jail. The Board has been petitioned to dischargeher from said jail, but as she is young, friendless, and without money,her discharge under these circ*mstances seems like closing the last avenueof hope for the poor girl, hence this appeal to the well known christiancharity of your order. The Board hopes that you will be kind enough to investigatethis case and likely be able to place her under the protecting influenceof some christian family, or at least suggest something that will be betterthan absolute ruin. The Board will be happy to cooperate with you in anysteps you may be pleased to take, and will stay until tomorrow all furtherproceedings in hopes to hear from you in this matter. Done by order of theBoard of county commissioners of Cowley County, Kans., J. S. HUNT, countyclerk and clerk of said Board."

Acting through this appeal they took the girl from the jail and one ofthe noble ladies opened her home to her, and everything that human kindnessor christian charity could suggest was done to reclaim her from the pathsof sin. The silly stories that she had implicated most of the city in herdownfall were largely without foundation, and what she did say would neverhave been given a second thought had not the young men of the city beenseized with a morbid and dyspeptic fear that they might be "on thelist." The young girl was taken to the Home for the Friendless at Leavenworthby one our ladies and is now under influences where it is to be hoped thather young life may be trained to paths of virtue and usefulness. For theladies who braved the storm of public criticism and opened their heartsand their homes to this poor outcast girl, the COURIER has not words toexpress its admiration. Their action was self-sacrificing and prompted bythe noblest instincts of womanhood.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

County Attorney Asp has filed the following opinion in the Probate Court.

"Hon. H. D. Gans, Probate Judge: Dear Sir: In response to your questionpropounded to me yesterday, 'Is a druggist's permit lawfully issued underthe prohibitory liquor law of 1881 valid under the new law of 1885, andmay a druggist holding such permit, it being unexpired; lawfully sell underthe same?' Permit me to say that in my opinion, no druggist holding a permitissued under the prohibitory law of 1881, and unexpired, has any right tosell thereunder since the taking effect of the new law of 1885. Section2 of the prohibitory law of 1881 provides: 'In order to obtain a druggist'spermit under this act, the applicant therefor shall present to the ProbateJudge of the county wherein such person is engaged in business, a petition,signed by at least twelve citizens of the township or city in which suchbusiness is located, etc.' The act of 1885 provides: 'The applicant thereforshall present to the Probate Judge of the county wherein such applicantis engaged in business, a petition signed by at least twelve freeholdershaving the qualifications of electors, of the township or city wherein suchbusiness is located, etc., and the original section is repealed by section19 of the new act, and since it took effect, no druggist may lawfully sellintoxicating liquor except upon a permit issued upon a petition as prescribedby the new law. HENRY E. ASP, County Attorney." It might be well toremark in this connection that under this new law prosecutions are not discretionarywith the County Attorney. When a complaint is made, he must prosecute andno excuse of having sold under an old permit under impression that it wasvalid will shield the druggist in the least.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The trial of W. L. Pridgeon for illegally selling liquor some time agoin the Blair building came off in Justice Buckman's Court, Monday. A juryof twelve found the defendant guilty on two counts, and fines of $100 onthe first and $200 on the second, with costs of suit, were assessed: anaggregate of nearly five hundred dollars. Pridgeon gave notice of appealand his bond was fixed at $800, which at the present writing has not beenfurnished and the defendant seems likely to languish in durance vile. CountyAttorney Asp informs us that but one more liquor case remains on file underthe old law, the case of the State vs. Dr. Irwin, of New Salem. The mansilly enough to undertake violation of the new prohibitory law, which wentinto effect Tuesday, will strike the ceiling of justice with a thud thatwill shake his frame with remorse deep and awful. Our County Attorney hason his armor and will make it sultry for every violator; but we think thewhiskeyites have grasped the situation and will accept water in peace.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The home of K. A. Kelly, a tenant on A. B. Graham's farm across Dutchcreek just north of the city, was destroyed by fire Wednesday evening oflast week and a babe of the family perished in the flames. The mother lefther three children in the house, the oldest of which is but five years,while she went out to milk. During her absence the house took fire, supposedlythrough some action of the children around the stove. Two of the childrenwere rescued alive, but the babe was taken out too late to save its life.All the household goods were lost, on which there was no insurance.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Chas. C. Black, secretary of the D., M. & A. railroad company, gotin Monday from an eastern trip in the interest of that road. He was accompaniedby Major Joe Hansen, general manager. Prospects for that line seem flattering.If Winfield gets the D., M. & A. and the K. C. & S., as is now almostcertain in the near future, Winfield and Cowley County will have a solid,substantial boom that will outdistance anything yet on record. J. N. Young,president of the K. C. & S., is expected to arrive from Chicago today.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The new prohibitory law is too large a dose for Wichita saloon keepers,according to the Beacon. "Monday and Tuesday witnessed theclose of all the Wichita saloons. About fifteen continued open after thefirst of the month. The revenue to the city will be cut off at once to theamount of twenty-five to thirty thousand dollars per annum. There seemsto be no possibility of running a saloon under the new law."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The Cowley County Horticultural Society held its regular monthly meetinglast Saturday at the COURIER office, President Jas. F. Martin in the chair.The Secretary, Jacob Nixon, read minutes of last meeting, which were adopted.

Members present expressed the conviction that the peach buds were uninjuredand that prospects indicated another big crop this year.

R. I. Hogue, chairman of the committee previously appointed to preparea fruit list suitable for Cowley horticulturalists, submitted a list whichwas discussed and adopted as follows.

Summer Apples: Red June, Sweet June, Early Harvest, Summer Queen, EarlyPennock, Keswick Codlin, Benoni Cooper's Early White and Red Astrachan.

Fall Apples: Maiden Blush, Rambo Late Strawberry, Fameuse and Fall Wine.

Early Winter Apples: Artley, Wine, Grime's Golden, Jonathan, Rome Beauty,and Smith Cider.

Late Winter or Long Keepers: Ben Davis, Missouri Pippin, Winesap, WillowTwig, Rawles Janet, Gilpin, and McAfflers Nonsuch.

List of 1,000 trees for a commercial orchard. 10 Red June, 15 Early Pennock,25 Cooper's Early White, 50 Maiden Blush, 50 Artley, 50 Rome Beauty, 200Missouri Pippin, 200 Ben Davis, 200 Winesap, 100 Willow Twig, 100 Gilpin,and 50 Rawles Janet.

Mr. Hogue said the Snyder grape was not injured by severe winter.

Mr. DeTurk spoke in favor of Kittatinny grape; considered the berry ofthe Snyder small and worthless. He grafted the grape last spring with goodsuccess; had grafts to grow fifteen feet on wild stocks.

Mr. F. A. A. Williams, appointed at last meeting to solicit membershipsto the Society, reported fifteen new members and four renewals. Mr. Williamswas continued, and Messrs. G. L. Gale and John Mentch were also appointedto assist in enlarging the membership.

Mr. Williams offered the following resolution, which was unanimouslyadopted.

Resolved, That the able articles of President Jas. F. Martin,on Forestry, are earnestly commended to our tree planters.

Mr. Gale broached the Hessian fly subject, and said that the egg is depositedon the leaf of wheat, instead of the root, as some recent writer has said,and is carried down to base of stock by dew and rain; also, that a dry,warm spring was very much against this fly.

President Martin reported the tender by Mr. T. A. Blanchard of a collectionof insects; the tender was gratefully accepted and Mr. Blanchard voted anhonorary member of the Society. Mr. Martin appointed to procure cases forsame.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Will A. McCartney sends us the following particulars of a tragedy nearthe new town of Ashland. "Ashland was thrown into a state of excitementon Tuesday night of last week, the 3^rd inst., by a rumor broughthere by a horseman to the effect that a shooting affray had taken placeabout twelve miles northwest of town. The facts as reported by him werethat Spencer, the man who did the shooting, and Warrick, his victim, hadbeen living together on a claim. After supper Tuesday night, Spencer toldWarrick to wash the dishes, which the latter refused to do. Spencer tookhold of him by the shoulder and told him that he had been playing off onthe work and that he must wash the dishes. Warrick broke loose, when Spencergrabbed a bull-dog revolver and shot him twice, once through the head andonce through the body. He then turned to two other boys that were in thedugout and demanded their money. Being satisfied by them that they had none,he took $10 from the pocket of his victim, armed himself with a long rangegun, and left the scene of his bloody crime. One of the witnesses of theact went to the 76 Ranch and got one of the boys from the Ranch to cometo town for the sheriff and a doctor. Dr. Parks in company with SheriffSughrue started for the place of the shooting, but when within two milesof the place the team ran off, throwing Sheriff Sughrue out and dislocatinghis shoulder. The Sheriff was brought to town and his shoulder replaced.It was found on reaching the place of the shooting that Warrick must havedied almost instantly. A number of citizens and boys from the 76 ranch areout in search of the murderer and all hopes are entertained of his capture.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The undersigned having been appointed by the Farmers' Institute a committeeon soils and cultivated crops, is desirous of obtaining a full descriptionof the various soils in this County, differing as they do very materially,and therefore he earnestly requests that all who feel interested in thesuccess of the Institute will send him facts and descriptions relating tothe soils and crops in their respective localities, as follows.

1^st. Surface soil, general characteristics: color, depth,preponderance of clay or sand.

2^nd. Subsoils: color, general character; whether porous orhard-pan; underlaid by lime-stone, slate, or sand-stone.

3^rd. Gumbo soils: their peculiarities; what your experienceas to the best method of making them friable or mellow.

4^th. Alkali soils: their peculiarities; what experiments haveyou made in their cultivation and what (in your opinion) is the best methodof treating them.

5^th. Any other suggestions in relation to soils.

6^th. Crops: Wheat--the best and most productive variety; thickor thin sowing the best; has continuous cropping of wheat materially reducedthe yield.

7^th. Corn--Deep or shallow plowing and cultivation the best;listing or check-rowing best.

8^th. Oats--the most productive variety; best plan of cultivation.

9^th. Experiences and opinions relating to other cultivatedcrops.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

In reading the COURIER of February 26^th, I noticed a localentitled "Dr. Tanner Outdone," telling of a hen's forty-one daysfast, which caused my mind to think of days long gone by. It was in thedays of flax growing, scutching, and spinning that the hero of my storylived. On a cold winter's day, I think about the middle of January, 1836,I was tramping wheat with horses and in removing the wheat from the mowI uncovered a live hen. She had concealed her nest in a lot of flax thathad been built upon some rails across the corner of the log barn. She couldnot have been confined there much less than four months, as we usually hauledin about the first of August or sooner. Now, had this happened in the daysof newspaper correspondence, I would have made a note of it and been ableto give exact date of time confined, but must rely on memory alone. Thehen was confined to, or within eighteen inches of her nest, and may havepicked some few grains of wheat and eaten her eggs, but had no way of gettingdrink. If you think this too big a story to publish, you can place it awaycarefully where none can see it. CHAS. PROVINES.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Mr. H. S. Libby, a stock raiser near Maple City, this county, writes:

"I have had an experience in handling cows this winter and springthat I never have had before in all of my Kansas life, and that is my cowsare nearly all losing their calves; born before their time, most of themdead when born, and those that are born alive live but a short time. Whatis the matter? Our feed consists of about one-third fodder, one-third milletcut while it was in the milk, and the balance prairie hay. I cannot formany idea the cause of it unless it is the long cold winter we have passedthrough. If any of my brother farmers can give me more light in this matter,I should be very glad to receive it.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The surety of the K. C. & S. and D., M. & A. railroads reachingWinfield very soon, is waking up the Santa Fe and it now gives vent to strongintentions of shoving its line from Douglass to this city at once. We willaccept such move with pleasure. Think of the Queen City having five railroadsby fall! Whoop!!

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

John Davis, of the general merchandise firm of Davis & Johnson, NewSalem, was in the metropolis Tuesday. The boys are working up a splendidbusiness and deserved reputation in the rustling little city of Salem.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Rev. W. H. Harris, of Arkansas City, filled the Methodist pulpit lastSunday morning and evening. He is a minister of experience and force andhis sermons were very acceptable.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

People who have not paid their taxes on real estate for the year 1884should be doing so immediately, as another 5 percent penalty will be attachedon the 20^th of the present month.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Rev. B. Kelly will preach his last sermon before the convening conference,at the Methodist church next Sunday morning and a praise meeting will beheld in the evening.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Mrs. Ed. A. Allen, of Vernon township, died very suddenly last Friday,aged forty-two years.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

T. R. Timme came in from Kansas City yesterday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

White bonnets are South Bend's latest rage.

Thorn Seacat and John Himes are visiting Clark County friends.

Will Birdzell is feeding his cattle on Mr. Carter's farm on Posey creek.

Mr. Harader will soon make a fish-way in his dam, so I am informed.

Rev. Crawford failed to fill his appointment last week at our schoolhouse.

George Morton and Sam Gregg will manipulate their plows on Stringer'sfarm this year.

Died, on the 4^th inst., Mary, infant child of Mr. and Mrs.Adin Post. The obsequies were conducted by Rev. Mr. Harris.

One day last week Mr. Holcomb entertained Prof. E. M. Garret, of Kentucky,and Mr. Watt, of Hackney. The Professor is looking at Kansas clime withthe notion of becoming a Jayhawker.

Sampson Johnson has bought E. Johnson's farm adjoining his on the east.The purchaser will now farm for all there is in it, and the other will migratetoward the setting sun.

Miss Mollie Holcomb has returned from Topeka where she has been visitingrelatives and attending school. She arrived at the "mushroom city,"Hackney, and took her trunk to Teter's Hotel on Timme street, between thedepot and north hedge row.

Mrs. James Jordan has been afflicted several months with hemorrhagesof the lungs, and recently her case assumed a very serious condition. Hopesare now entertained, however, that the dreaded disease will not prove fatalin her case.

Will Scott, of Posey Creek fame, and Miss Cordia Armistead, one of ArkansasCity's fairest ladies, were united in the holy bonds of double life, recently.May fortune smile upon a happy voyage across the sea of futurity, is thewish of their many friends.

One of Red Valley's young energetics once smiled with all his might uponone of South Bend's fairest maidens. He came and went, and many times didhe cause South Bend's victuals to do likewise. He arrived at home recently,and there, in the light of the morning star, he found a note on his saddle'shorn. The message thereon did not tell him to call and kiss anyone, butit politely invited him to remit on board bill and horse feed. There isnot enough atmosphere to supply his organs of speech.

Last Friday night our teacher gave a spelling match and entertainment.The spelling lasted until recess and Al Bookwalter and Mr. Tousley werepronounced champions. After recess the pupils entertained the audience withthe following program: Select Reading, Will Welman; Recitation, Rosa Wilson;Recitation, Emma Welman; Laughing Hyena, Harry Shaw; Likee Melican Man,Dick Chrisman; Little Horner, Mr. Stephenson. The program concluded with"The Neighbor's Cat," by the leading stars, and "Old Maids,"by Misses Welman and Sitter.

A goodly number of our citizens met at Mr. Broadwell's a few eveningssince to celebrate the 11^th anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Broadwell'swedded life. The evening was passed very pleasantly by playing light gamesand discussing matters of general interest. The artichoke question was ablydiscussed, and "Skipper Hokern," whose feathers have stood againstthe wind because the people would not go wild over "German carp culture,"spoke words of consolation to his political friends who had "recentlykissed the walls of the White House a sad farewell." An excellent repastwas served, and all present agreed that it was good to be there.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Stock of all kinds healthy and looking well.

Now that winter is over, the farmers are preparing for spring work.

Mr. C. Manny has moved to Greenwood County. We are sorry to lose him.

Sam Sample and sons-in-law are all going west soon and grow up with thecountry.

L. Moore, our Justice of the peace, has moved near Glen Grouse on a No.1 bottom farm. He will make it pay of anyone can.

The Armstrong school closed Friday evening the 6^th, with anexhibition. Mr. Ramage has taught a good school and gave splendid satisfaction.

H. Glaves is feeding two carloads of fat cattle and Mr. Mosier one carload.Al. Mathews is feeding two or three carloads and all ready for the market.

Dr. N. R. Luther, our popular physician at Glen Grouse, informs me thereis almost no sickness in this locality. He says Mr. and Mrs. Will Rash arehappy: it's a fine boy, and all doing well.

J. N. Turner has gone back to Missouri to stay one year. He is one ofour best young men. I think he will return in the spring and bring withhim an assistant to improve his new farm and make home happy.

Dr. Luther is talking of going south this spring, thinking he will finda location that will suit him better. It is very healthy here and sometimesa rough, bad road, etc., but I think he had better remain here, as he hasall the practice there is to do, and a good reputation, both as a physicianand citizen. He has been located at Glen Grouse for nearly four years, andthe people will very much miss him, as there is no other doctor within twelvemiles.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Hon. J. D. Maurer has returned home from Topeka.

Joseph Furman has sold his fat cattle to Mr. Hardwick.

Mr. Kulp, of Minnesota, is visiting his sister, Mrs. D. Hawkins.

Mrs. John Reynolds has returned home from her visit in Illinois.

School is progressing finely and the term has been extended one month.

A little boy of Mr. Hardwick's has been suffering severely from an attackof inflammatory rheumatism, but at present writing is some better.

Miss Iowa Hargis has returned to her home in Cameron, Missouri. She hadformed many warm friends while here who regret her departure: especiallyJack.

Miss Nettie McKinne left for her home in Illinois last week. She willbe sadly missed by our young people and we can all account for Ed's lookingso sad.

Elder Kersy, of Wyandotte, Kansas, of the Christian denomination, isholding a protracted meeting in Dexter. A large audience has been in attendanceevery night. His sermons are very interesting.

School closed in District No. 7 last week with an entertainment at night.Quite an interesting time was reported. J. R. Smith, Jr., conducted theschool there this winter. The school at Fairview, Crab Creek, also closedlast Wednesday evening with an entertainment, assisted by the literary societyand Dexter band.

Considerable stock has been shipped from this locality of late. W. W.Underwood sold a carload of fat cattle, and Henry Branson two carloads offat cattle, while other parties have been shipping hogs and sheep. A moreenterprising and business class of men than Grouse valley affords is hardto find. Messrs. Hardwick and Peabody have been buying and shipping allwinter.

The festival held in the A. O. U. W. hall was a success financially andsocially. Great credit is due the ladies of Dexter and vicinity in preparingand arranging the supper. The table fairly groaned under its burden of goodthings. After supper was over quite a number of cakes, pies, chickens, andother eatables were sold to the highest bidder. The proceeds to go to thepastor of the Presbyterian church. Everything passed off quietly and allappeared to enjoy themselves.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The Excelsior schoolhouse was painted and plastered last fall. It isnow the neatest school room that we have seen in Kansas.

They have discovered a quarry of stone on the farm of Mr. Group's thatwill furnish heavy stone superior to any found in this county. Parties arenow making arrangements to work it this season.

There have been so many changes in this district during the past yearthat many are strangers to their near neighbors. The splendid gatheringat Excelsior last Friday gave an opportunity to get acquainted. We shouldhave more such occasions.

Last Friday was a pleasant day for the scholars and patrons of Excelsiorschool. The occasion was the close of the winter term of Miss Wolf. Beforenoon the parents and friends of the school began to gather and by noon therewere as many as the house would hold. The morning session was dismissedand the scholars and men repaired to the yard; the pupils spending the timeat play and the men in conversation while the ladies took possession ofthe house. Soon they called and when we entered the room, we beheld twotables the length of the room filled with as nice and good a dinner as wasever set in Cowley County. So great was the variety that one could not tastebut a small part of any one thing. After dinner the time was spent in songs,select readings, essays, dialogues, and declamations, of which there wasvariety enough to keep up the interest until the close. This, we believe,is Miss Wolf's first term in Kansas. The school has made rapid progressunder her direction. The next term begins the 23^rd of March.

The following is a report of the weather kept by D. M. Adams, of thispart of Pleasant Valley, for the year ending March 1^st, 1885.

Average temperature of the year: 56½ Degrees.

Highest temperature during the year: 100 Degrees.

Average of warmest day: 86 Degrees.

Lowest below zero: 5 Degrees.

Average temperature of coldest day: 1 Degree.

Depth of rain and melted snow: 30½ Inches.

Greatest quantity of rain in one day: 1½ Inches.

Inches of snow during the year: 14 Inches.

Days rain fell: 74 Days.

Days snow fell: 15 Days.

Days at or below zero: 10 Days.

The warmest month was July; the average temperature was 81 degrees; thewarmest day was July 12^th; average temperature, 86.

The coldest day was December 24; average, 1 degree above zero. The lowestwas 5 below, January 17.

The greatest fall of rain during one month was August, making 4.95 inches;rain fell on 12 days.

The driest month was March. There were light showers on four days, makingonly of an inch of rain.

The first frost was October 9; it was light. Vegetation was not injureduntil October 22^nd.

First ice and a light snow on November 18. Potato vines were not killeduntil that date. The first snow of winter fell December 11 and lay untilJanuary 8. Snowed again the 15^th of January and lay until Februarythe 4^th; then another snow February 23^rd, which layuntil the 27^th. The ground was covered with snow 52 days thiswinter.

Persons who have observed closely find that this report differs fromthose made on lower grounds and that the valleys are colder than the uplands.Vegetation was killed several weeks on the bottom between Winfield and theriver before it was killed here. There was solid ice in the valley in lessthan ½ mile of my home before there was any ice at my home on anelevation in the edge of Pleasant Valley. It is generally supposed thatthe hills are the coldest. It has been the opposite this winter. The valleyshave been colder than the high ground on extreme cold days. It has been5 degrees colder in Winfield than here.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

It will soon be time to lay in a stock of garden seed.

The roads are drying up and afford better traveling.

George Burt has sold out his lease of Mr. Lacey's farm to Mr. Wilson.

Mr. W. L. Thompson will haul his freight hereafter on a spring wagon.

Miss Lillie Wilson's arm is slowly improving although it causes someinconvenience yet.

The Holiness meeting that is in progress at Valley Center schoolhouseis succeeding very slowly.

J. J. Tribby is ornamenting his farm with a fine two-story residence.Mr. A. Sipe is doing the carpenter work on Mr. Tribby's house.

The wheat looks very bad in some localities, especially on the upland.On examining it, it can be found that the roots are black and decayed.

The school is progressing at Akron quite successfully under the ablemanagement of Prof. R. B. Corson.

Misses Mary E. Curfman and Maggie Wilson were visiting at the residenceof Mr. J. A. Savage last Sabbath.

Rev. Wesley preached his farewell sermon last Sabbath. The Presbyterianchurch elected a new set of officers last Sabbath. For elders: Mr. Mann,Mr. Pember, and Mr. Morton were elected for terms of three to five years.W. H. Huston, E. L. Wilson, Charles Huston, and T. S. Covert were electedtrustees.

A certain young man was coming home from church last Sabbath night withhis girl in a one horse conveyance. The horse became so demoralized withthe scene behind it that it refused to carry them any farther until afterconsiderable coaxing and petting from Mr. . He was finally satisfiedwith his share and they went on their way rejoicing with very little damageto either party.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

We are anxiously waiting for the ground to dry sufficiently to beginfarming operations.

Seed oats are almost as scarce a commodity as corn in this section. Alarge acreage of this cereal will be sown this spring.

Rev. Castle has severed his pastorate with the Irvin Chapel and returnedto Ohio to continue his studies: a move in the right direction.

Today Mr. Lucius Walton commenced threshing his last year's crop of oats.He will have no difficulty in disposing of every bushel of them to his neighborsfor seed at a profitable figure.

Mrs. Della Snyder, after a very short vacation, has begun her secondterm of school at the Victor schoolhouse in No. 115. This is a just recognitionof her services in the quite recent past.

This morning (Tuesday) Mr. Wm. Culloch shipped the first carload of hogsfrom this point. Having only thirty-seven of his own, he paid four centsper pound to his neighbors for the remainder of the carload.

Last week Messrs. Will Beach, Moses Teeter, and John Vandever receivedtwo carloads of corn at our station. They paid thirty-two cents per bushel.The Green Bros. also availed themselves of the convenience of our switchby shipping in a carload of corn.

M. H. Markum has ordered his third carload of corn. He deems one week'sfeeding now more profitable than a whole month during the reign of frigidity.While in Kansas City a few days ago, he visited the great Union Stock Yardsand noticed that the stock being received were mostly of an inferior quality--mainlyowing to too early shipment, and as a natural consequence, the market, instockmen's parlance, was "badly off."

Since his last contribution, "Mark" enjoyed a week's recreationat the State Capital and Manhattan, returning by way of Kansas City. Werehe to give a description of the sights, scenes, and pleasures incident tohis trip, the columns of the COURIER would be too much crowded. During hissojourn at Topeka he was the recipient of many valuable favors and appreciatedcourtesies from Representatives Greer and King and Senator Jennings, forwhich they have his hearty thanks. Having spent much time in the House partof the Legislature, he was pleased to notice the active part Hon. Greertook in the debates of that August assembly. Hons. King and Maurer, althoughmore conservative, appeared none the less interested and solicitous concerningthe disposition of bills. Senator Jennings seemed to have but few, if any,superiors in the Senate, and was quite fortunate in accomplishing what heundertook. "Our boys," with possibly one single exception, madeas clean and clear a record as legislators as any county delegation in theState. The fact that they finally secured the Imbecile Institution aftera close and sharp contest, entitles them to the just recognition of ourpeople in the future. The "boys" are now acquainted and couldexert a more powerful influence in the next Legislature. At Manhattan, "Mark"enjoyed a "feast of reason and a flow of soul," as the guest ofProf. Thompson, of the State College. Prof. Shelton, of the Farm Department,kindly placed himself at ye scribe's service and a rich treat was enjoyedin the agricultural line, which space forbids describing. Many valuableimprovements have been made in and to the College and farm since "Mark"was an honored student three years ago. The only regret that his visit occasionedwas the fact that he is not now numbered among the four hundred studentswho are daily enjoying its delightful comforts and advantages. This institutionis rapidly becoming, and deservedly too, the most popular school in theState. It is now more thoroughly equipped than ever before, with comfortablebuildings well lighted and heated, neatly carpeted and artistically decorated.A corps of able instructors who have no superiors in their special fields,in or out of the State, and all necessary apparatus for the education ofmechanical and scientific subjects. The Industrial Department of the Collegeis a grand success. Every student is not only taught theory, but practiceis compelled in some one of the several useful trades taught and fosteredby the institution, thus laying the ground work of an honorable and usefulcareer of its alumni.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

A. L. Gay meditates a trip to Illinois soon.

The ground hog legend is about "kerect."

M. Ellinger is happy over the return of his wife.

Our mite societies still flourish; quite a fund on hand.

We all swear by Jennings and Greer. They are daisies.

We feel like giving three cheers and a tiger for Frank and Ed. for whatthey did for Cowley. That "Imbecile Bill," as it is called, isa big thing for Cowley, if J. J. J. didn't think we wanted it.

Workmen are pushing the new church rapidly towards completion.

The frost is almost out of the ground, but corn is not all gathered.

It's a mistake about J. J. Johnson living in Richland; he can't leaveTisdale.

Hugh McKibben and Dick Chase are boss lobbyists and "don't you forgetit."

We almost feel as though we had a new neighbor, Richland is so near,you know.

It's too bad about J. S. Baker. Ask him about it if you have an accidentpolicy.

S. W. Chase is setting them up to the boys. A new thresher at Dick'sis what is the matter.

Dr. Griffin and wife have returned to Chicago; too healthy in Tisdale.Georgia Davis accompanied them.

Somebody ask Johnson about those colored tickets that they didn't useat the last election at Tisdale.

We regret to learn that our old time friends, John R. and Will Smith,have sold their farms. Soon the old settlers will all be gone.

We trust that our Salem friends will be easy on the rest of Richland,at least until they get a little used to their ways, which are at timessomewhat mysterious.

Wonder what caused so many explosions near the south line of Richlandtownship one afternoon of last week. Could it have been because Baker gothome alive?

To our Salem friends let me say our fight has not been in any way personal.We entertain nothing but the best feeling toward them and shall ever welcomethem to Tisdale most cordially.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

We welcome you, gentle spring.

Rev. Castle preached his farewell sermon on March 1^st at IrwinChapel.

If you want to subscribe for the Iowa Tribune, Mr. McCurleywill take your order.

Thirteen freight cars on the side track at Hackney. This certainly meansbusiness.

Wanted. There are a good many farmers that want to know what corner ofthe field they left their plow in.

About eighteen couples of young folks met at Mr. Cy. Fisher's a few eveningsince. They report a pleasant time and of course they did to the oystersjust what any of the rest of us would have done.

Look out for tramps. They are in the neighborhood. If they were gatheredup as they come around and taken to Winfield, or some other place, and puton the stone pile to breaking stone, we would not have so many.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Weather beautiful and farmers have commenced plowing.

Miss Bell Winters made a flying visit to the "hub" Monday.

Mr. John Himelick has rented the Cambridge House and took possessionMonday.

Miss Blanche Palmer, who has been visiting in your city for the pastthree weeks, returned home Saturday.

The deputy sheriff was in town Monday and all of our boys who have beennaughty looked frightened.

Sam Greenlief has sold a half interest in his livery stable to Lee Harris.The firm will be known as Greenlief & Harris.

Preaching at the schoolhouse next Sunday at 11 a.m., by Elder Dwyer andin the evening at half past seven by Rev. Jas. Tull.

Mr. Himelick's brother, whom we reported last week as being very lowwith consumption, died last Thursday. His remains were sent to Indiana forinterment.

We understand the Good Templars of this place are talking of moving toa larger room, their membership having increased very rapidly during thelast month. The members say the meetings grow more interesting each evening.

Dr. Jones did not remain with us as many friends hoped he would, butleft for his home at Holden, Mo., Thursday. The Doctor expects to visitthe World's Fair and take a prospective tour through the south. We wishhim success wherever he may go.

A juvenile singing class was organized at the schoolhouse yesterday,under the leadership of N. S. Crawford. The motive Mr. Crawford has in viewis to teach the Sunday school children, especially, how to sing, and inthe near future give a Sunday school concert. Mr. Crawford is well versedin music and he cannot be complimented too highly for his enthusiasm inthis matter.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

H. H. Swim spent Saturday in Winfield.

Mr. Will Swim spent Wednesday in Winfield.

Mr. Matt Jackson has a cousin and his family visiting him.

Jim Haygood left Monday for Dexter, to work for Mr. Harden.

Several of our young people spent Sunday evening at J. L. Higbee's.

Fred Collins, of Burden, passed through our city Sunday, southward.

Miss Eva Reynolds was in Burden Tuesday visiting Miss Harden's school.

Miss May Bedell leaves tomorrow for Iowa, where she expects to spendthe summer.

Miss Laura Elliott, the instructor of the young minds at Dexter, Sundayedat home.

Miss Eva Reynolds spent the latter part of last week down the creek ingetting up a school. She will commence teaching Monday week.

Miss Mattie Rittenhouse opened a select school yesterday morning. Asshe is a favorite among the children, I feel confidence she will be successful.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

H. C. Hutchins, of Wabash, Indiana, arrived here on Friday and will locatewith us.

The mush and milk social at Abbott's on Friday night was a very enjoyableaffair.

John House, of Newton, Kansas, General agent for the Wood twine binder,is spending a few days in our city.

Our merchants are all having a good trade since the warm weather setin and the roads have become passable.

Mr. Ben Kerr, a friend of E. M. Buffington, arrived from Aurora, Indiana,on the 3^rd inst., and will probably locate here.

The city has purchased a lot and will proceed to erect a "cooler"at once. Who will be the first to secure lodgings there?

Someone without the fear of the Lord on their souls helped themselvesto three boxes of Ammon cigars Saturday night.

The R. R. Co. have put in a first-class street crossing on First street.This is an improvement which our citizens appreciate highly.

Melvin Carter, of Grundy County, Illinois, who owns several farms inthis county, is here looking after his financial interests.

Our efficient County Attorney made this city a visit on the 3^rd,and enriched the State School fund to the extent of $100, at the expenseof Charles Martin.

The series of meetings that are being carried on by the Christian churchunder the auspices of Brother Kane are meeting with good success as evincedby their crowded house each night, and the numbers of new converts thatnightly unite with the church. Let the good work go on.

A young child of Marion Fitzsimons had a very narrow escape from deathon Saturday, by being run over with a carriage driven by James Napier. Fortunatelyhe escaped with slight injuries. John McCallister also had a narrow escapewhile digging in a well for the railroad company. At a depth of 65 feet,an empty hoisting bucket slipped and fell from the top, striking John aglancing blow on the shoulder.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

An act to enable the City Council of the City of Winfield, Cowley County,Kansas, to appropriate money to purchase a site for the Kansas Asylum forIdiotic and Imbecile Youth, and levy taxes therefor.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:

SECTION 1. That the City Council of the City of Winfield, Cowley County,Kansas, is authorized to appropriate out of the city treasury of such cityin the amount not to exceed twenty-five hundred dollars for the purposeof purchasing a site for the Kansas Asylum for Idiotic and Imbecile Youth.Provided, That if said city has no funds in the city treasury for the purpose,that the City Council of said City may issue its scrip to the above amountin lieu thereof for such purpose, and at the next annual levy of taxes,may levy a tax on said property of such city in addition to other taxessufficient to pay such scrip.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and afterits publication in the WINFIELD COURIER.

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of theoriginal enrolled bill now on file in my office.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed myofficial seal. Done at Topeka, Kansas, this 7^th day of March,A. D. 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

The unanimous verdict on the inauguration is that it was the most brilliant,enjoyable, and generally successful occasion of the kind in the historyof the government. More people were here, and they enjoyed themselves betterthan ever before. The festivities proceeded without a hitch or disappointmentfrom beginning to end. But the chief sight was not what the people saw,but the people themselves. Never was there such a notable gathering on thiscontinent. And in mere numbers, the crowds excelled anything known outsideof a few exceptional gatherings, such as the Philadelphia Centennial. Themultitude which faced President Cleveland to hear his views and be witnessesto his covenant with the nation, was perhaps the largest body of citizensever collected in one spot. Experts differed widely as to the number, butmany judges of crowds estimated it as high as one hundred thousand, or evenhigher. Fully a quarter of a million people flanked the procession, andat night the same vast crowd choked the broad acres of the White Lot tosee the fireworks. The ball was a popular as well as an artistic triumph.Here again the people crowded by thousands in an unprecedented jam. Andscarcely a speck of trouble of any sort dimmed the universal joyousness.

There were no railroad accidents, no platforms collapsed, no quarrels,jealousies, or misunderstanding broke the harmony. In short, the peopleand the pageant lived up to the weather.

"Cleveland's luck" stood him in good stead at his inauguration.The day was all that could be desired, the streets were in perfect condition,and nothing was wanted to complete the comfort of those who marched andthose who looked on. The weather evidently made up its mind to fall in stepwith the times and show its fair face as used to be the case in the daysof "the fathers." Since the time of Pierce, the weather inaugurationday has been almost uniformly execrable; but before that President, theday was frequently very pleasant.

One novel feature in the ceremonies of inauguration day was letting thepublic get a peep for the first time at an executive session of the Senate.The House did not pass the Grant bill till after 11 o'clock. The Presidentwas at the Capitol, and promptly sent an executive communication to theSenate naming Grant as the "one person" whom he wished on theretired list as general. But it was now half-past eleven, and it was manifestlyimpracticable to clear the galleries and turn out the distinguished guestswho crowded the floor. Hence the Senate, by unanimous consent, proceededto executive business with open doors. But for some reason those free andeasy scenes which gossip pictures in executive sessions did not take place.Nobody smoked, no Senators put their feet on the desks, no one told creamystories. The public is now in doubt as to whether the hilarities of executivesessions are a myth, or whether they were only partially initiated intotheir mysteries after all.

The forty-eighth Congress has at last expired. Nominally it was two yearsold, but its conscious and wakeful days amounted in all to only 234. Anunprecedented volume of business was presented to it for attention, butonly a small proportion was acted upon. Among the few important bills thatescaped the common fate were those establishing bureaus of labor, navigation,and animal industry; to repeal the test oath of 1862; to reduce the rateof postage; to remove certain burdens on navigation; to provide a civilgovernment for Alaska; to declare forfeited the Texas Pacific land grant,and to provide for the ascertainment of the French spoliation claims. Amongthe failures of note were the Morrison horizontal tariff, the various bankingbills, the Blair education bill, the electoral count, the bankruptcy bill,and the silver suspension bill.

It is authoritatively denied that Arthur is in ill health. He is theguest of Mr. Frelinghuysen. He may or may not go to Fortress Monroe fora week or so. He has no intention of making a yacht trip south, but willprobably go to New York, and from there start in the early summer on a fishingexpedition to St. John, N. B. LENOX.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Piano to rent. Inquire of J. W. Hall, at Spotswood's grocery.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

I am selling the celebrated La Belle wagon at $66.00. Come and examineit. W. W. LEE.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Remember the sale of Short Horn yearling calves at Frederick's liverystable Saturday next, at 2 o'clock. H. S. SHIVVERS.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Nursery stock as cheap as the cheapest and good as the best. 15,000 appleand peach trees at the very lowest prices. Good apple trees at $7. Per hundred.Two miles west of Winfield, on Oxford road. J. G. PIERSON.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

PUBLIC SALE. I will offer at Public Auction at my residence 1½miles south of Grand Summit, Cowley County, Kansas, on Thursday, March 26^th,1885, at 10 o'clock a.m., the following property, to-wit: 2 good span ofwork mules; 1 stallion; 4 saddle horses; 2 yearling colts; 2 good milchcows; 1 yearling bull, three-fourths Short Horn Durham; 22 yearling steers;10 yearling heifers; 40 head of stock hogs, Poland China breed; and 2 farmwagons, 1 spring wagon, 2 sets double harness, 1 mowing machine and sulkyhay rake, stirring plows, cultivators, etc., 1 cane mill, good horse powerand evaporator, and many other things not mentioned. Also my farm will befor rent for cash; 115 acres in cultivation. Terms of sale: A credit ofnine months will be given on all sums over $5 by giving note with approvedsecurity drawing 10 percent interest from date; 5 percent discount for cash.J. W. HIATT.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

PUBLIC SALE. I will sell at Public Auction at my residence 2 miles eastand 2 miles north of Winfield, at ten o'clock a.m., on Thursday, March 19^th,1885, the following property, to-wit: 54 head of yearling steers and heifers,three first-class milch cows, all giving milch, 2 of them fresh; 2 calves,1 thoroughbred Short-Horn Durham bull; 80 head of stock hogs, including10 young brood sows; 1 sewing machine; 1 kitchen Range; household and kitchenfurniture, 1 set double harness, 1 combined reaper and mower, 1 sulky hayrake, 1 spring-tooth harrow, 1 stirring plow, 1 Climax corn planter; 1 Courtlandspring wagon, 8 dozen hens, and various other articles too numerous to mention.I also have 3 good work horses that I will sell for cash or trade 2 of themfor a team of mules suitable for the road. I also have several hundred bushelsof corn and a lot of hay that I will sell for cash. I also offer the farm,which is one of the best in the county, for sale on reasonable terms, withpayments, or will rent it for cash to the right person, if not sold soon.Terms of sale: A credit of nine months, without interest, will be givenon all sums over $10, exclusive of horses, hay, and corn, by purchaser givinggood bankable notes. C. A. ROBERTS.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Recap. Administrator's Notice: Estate of Edward Richardson, deceased.Catherine Richardson, declared Administratrix. Jennings & Troup, Attorneys.Effective date: March 10, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Recap. Notice of Final Settlement: Estate of Francis C. Martin, deceased.April 6, 1885.

A. Gilkey, Administrator. Hackney & Asp, Attorneys.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Recap. Notice of Final Settlement: Estate of Nellie Sellers, deceased.April 6, 1885.

James A. Goforth, Administrator. Hackney & Asp, Attorneys.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Recap. Notice of Final Settlement: Estate of J. H. Boggs, deceased. April6, 1885.

Joseph S. Hill, Administrator. Hackney & Asp, Attorneys.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Recap. Notice of Final Settlement: Estate of C. B. Goforth. April 6,1885.

James A. Goforth, Administrator. Hackney & Asp, Attorneys.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Recap. Notice of Final Settlement: Estate of Sarah J. Kimble. April 6,1885.

Calvin Kimble, Administrator.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Recap. Notice of Final Settlement: Estate of John H. Boggs, deceased.April 6, 1885.

Joseph S. Hill, Administrator. Hackney & Asp, Attorneys.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Recap. Summons: Martha F. Worden, Plaintiff, against Linden O. Worden,Defendant.

Suit: April 23, 1885. Hackney & Asp, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

[This was a very long ad covering the history of stallions owned by McDonald.I skipped details. Stallions mentioned: Mastiff, sired by Administrator--2:29½;Malcom Sprague, sired by Governor Sprague--2:20¼.]

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Don't fail to call when you want anything--from a Picture Nail to a ParlorSuit. I will not be undersold (quality considered) by any dealer in thesewoods. Chairs till you can't rest, for child, miss, or adult.

N. B. A full line of Caskets, Burial Cases, Robes, etc. Will take chargeof funerals: city or country. Satisfaction guaranteed in all cases. Rememberthe place.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Only listing some of the items in ads for real estate...

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

80 acres, nice slope, land, about 2 miles northwest from the railroadstation of New Salem and about 8 miles from Winfield; frame dwelling house;2 rooms, a fair orchard, bearing; about 10 acres enclosed by wire fencefor pasture; about 50 acres under cultivation; pleasant location. Price$2,000.

80 acres, about 10 miles from Winfield and 2 from Tisdale; running water;small stone dwelling house, some stone fenced corrals and stone stable partlycompleted; a few acres plowed. Price $800.

155 acres, about 25 miles from Winfield and 3 from Maple City and corneringwith the village of Otto; 40 to 50 acres cultivated; very fine bearing peachorchard and some other fruits; good 3 or 4 room dwelling house, stable,etc.; a large number of forest trees of good size, well, etc. Price $3,000.

240 acres, about 25 miles from Winfield and 3 from Maple City; about½ miles from Otto; about 30 acres under cultivation; 2 small dwellings;a few bearing peach trees of good variety; lasting water; about 60 to 80acres of bottom land. Price $3,000.

160 acres, about 6 miles southwest of Dexter and 22 from Winfield; about30 acres under cultivation; a bearing peach orchard; 2 springs. Price $1,000.

160 acres, about 4 miles from Winfield; about 40 acres under good stateof cultivation; a small frame dwelling; good well with pump; a nice bearingpeach orchard; nice building site in view of Winfield. Price $1800.

160 acres, about 3 miles from Seely and 10 from Winfield; small house;fine bearing orchard; 120 acres enclosed for pasture; all enclosed by hedgefence; running water most of the year. Price $5,000. [Note: Seelyor "Seeley." Both were used.]

160 acres, about 3 miles from Winfield, in full view of city; about 40acres under cultivation; a fine assortment of fruits; good well with pump;good four-room dwelling house with good cellar; about 80 acres enclosedby wire fence in one pasture and 20 acres in another pasture; good hog corralfenced with stone fence; frame chicken house, frame stable, good cattlecorral. Price $5,000.

160 acres, about 3 miles from Winfield; about 80 to 100 acres under cultivation;good 4 room dwelling house; good well; a very large orchard of peach, apple,grapes, and berries; a lot of forest trees; mound slope land. Price $5,000.

240 acres, nice prairie land; 30 miles from Winfield and about 6 fromMaple City; running water most of the year. Price $1800.

80 acres, about 12 miles from Winfield and 3 from New Salem; 15 acresunder cultivation; 5 acres timber; 15 acres Timber creek bottom land; house,stable, corn crib, and some other buildings; some fruits and berries; runningwater all the year; a good hog ranch. Price $1,000.

100 acres, about 3 miles from Winfield; nice location; a large youngorchard of various kinds of trees; fair dwelling house, 2 good wells; 40acres enclosed for pasture; good hog corral, fenced. Price $3,000.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

We will take great pleasure in showing our lands to those who may visitus, or will answer promptly any correspondents who desire information, aboutthe country. We give below a partial list of lands we have for sale.

160 acres, 90 in cultivation, 70 in grass, good frame house of 4 roomswith cellar, Kansas stable, granary and corn cribs; 20 acres fenced forpasture, good hog corrals with living water; watered by well and two goodsprings in pasture, 4 or 5 acres of orchard, 6 miles from railroad depot,¾ to school, 2 to post office, 10 to Winfield. Price $4,000.

80 acres, 45 in cultivation, 35 in grass, frame house 14 x 18 with addition10 x 14, stable for 4 horses, wheat granary, corn cribs, wagon and cattlesheds, 60 rods of hedge and 40 rods of picket fence, good well, about 6acres in fruit, consisting of apple, peach and cherry trees, grapes, blackberries,½ acre of strawberries, two miles to railroad depot, 1 mile to school,2 Winfield. Price $4,000.

186 acres, 123 in cultivation, 60 in grass, a grove of about 3 acres;a frame house of 4 rooms, stable and corn cribs, 20 acres fenced for pasture,2 acres in hog lot, 100 rods of wire and 80 rods of hedge fence, wateredby well and 2 good springs, four acres of orchard, consisting of almostall kinds of fruit trees; railroad depot 1¼ miles, school 100 rods,about 100 rods to nice church, Winfield 7 miles. $7,000.

2 lots, frame house 10 x 24 with basem*nt, 5 rooms; good barn; buggy-shed;coal house, etc., lots full of fruit and ornamental trees; good sidewalk;5 blocks to Post Office. Price $1400.

3 lots with frame house, 4 rooms, stable, poultry house and yard, fruitand ornamental trees, good well, good sidewalk to Post Office, a specialbargain in this property. Price $1500.

2 lots on Main street, house 18 x 24 and shed kitchen, fruit and ornamentaltrees, well, 5 blocks from P. O. Price $700.

We also have 100 acres of land outside the city limits, which we willdivide to suit the purchaser, from 1 to 5 acres, at price ranging from $125to $235 per acre according to location. Those desiring a suburban residenceshould call soon, as these lots are selling rapidly. Easy payments to thosewho will improve the same.

Remember that the above described property is but a partial list of whatwe have for sale. In looking over this, if you see nothing that will suityou call at our office. We are confident that we can suit you in any kindof property you want.

$150,000 to loan in sums from $500 up to $10,000 on first-class mortgagesecurity. All applications for loans must be accompanied with Abstract ofTitle.

The title to the property is good or no sale. Come and see us and wewill show you around free of charge. We aim to do business on the square,and to not misrepresent. If you have a friend in the East or elsewhere whowants to buy property in the best county in Kansas, please mail him thisdescriptive price list. For a more complete list, send for a copy of our"Real Estate News."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

H. B. SCHULER, PREST. J. B. LYNN, VICE PREST.

CAPITAL $50,000.00

RESERVE FUND $50,000.00

Oldest Bank in the County. Established 1871.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

and will be sold at prices which defy competition. Call and be shownthrough my establishment by accommodating salesmen, and notice some of theextraordinary bargains.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Bain and Mitchell Wagons, Racine and Studebaker Spring Wagon, Buggiesand Carriages, Cassady Sulky Plows, Weir Sulky Plows, Deere, Weir and GardenCity and Moline Plows and Cultivators, Brown Barlow Corn Planters, Buckeyeand McCormick Reapers and Mowers, Deering's Twine Binders, Cooking and HeatingStoves, Glidden Barb Wire, Blacksmith's Supplies, Spouting, Roofing, andall kinds of

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.

Recap. Land Office at Wichita, R. L. Walker, Register, Notice by settlerto make final proof on his claim April 4, 1885. William J. Davis, of WinfieldP. O., Kansas. Made before Ed. Pate, District Clerk at Winfield, Kansas.Witnesses: John Marks, David Marks, Mary Page, and Charles Norton, all ofWinfield P. O., Kansas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885. Front Page.

Defining the boundry lines of Tisdale township, in Cowley County, Stateof Kansas, and attaching certain territory therein named to Richland township,in said county and State.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:

SECTION 1. The township of Tisdale, in Cowley County, Kansas, is herebybounded as follows: Commencing at the northeast corner of section No. 1,in township No. 32 south of range No. 5 east running thence west five miles,to the northwest corner of section No. 5; thence south six miles, to thesouthwest corner of section No. 32; thence east five miles, to the southeastcorner of section No. 36; thence north six miles to place of beginning.

SEC. 2. All of that part of old Tisdale township not herein embracedin the foregoing boundaries, is hereby attached to Richland township, insaid county and State.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect after its publication once in theWinfield COURIER.

Approved March 6, 1885.

I do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy ofthe original enrolled bill now on file in my office.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed myofficial seal.

[SEAL.] Done at Topeka, Kansas, this 6^th day of March, A.D. 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

with the latest and most attractive designs. Their machinery is completefor turning out all classes of turned work, Scroll Work, Brackets, Windowand Door Frames, Circle Moulding, and everything in fancy carpentry. Estimatesfurnished on all classes of buildings at short notice, and contracts takenfor the same.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

AN ACT Amendatory of and supplemental to chapter 128, of the sessionlaws of 1881, being an act entitled "An act to prohibit the manufactureand sale of intoxicating liquors, except for medical, scientific and mechanicalpurposes, and to regulate the manufacture and sale thereof for such exceptedpurposes."

I did however take note of another act which is listed below...

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885. Front Page.

To authorize school districts and boards of education in any county inthe State to adopt a uniform series of text-books, and to repeal section1, chapter 157, laws of 1879.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:

SECTION 1. School districts may, at their annual meetings for the electionof school officers, indicate by a majority of all the votes cast at suchmeeting their desire for a county uniformity of text books, which vote shallbe transmitted to the county superintendent of public instruction by theclerk of the aforesaid school district, within ten days from the time ofsuch vote.

SEC. 2. Whenever a majority of all the districts of a county in any oneyear shall indicate as in section one their desire for a county uniformityof text-books, the county superintendent of public instruction shall notifythe districts of such vote, and at the same time call for one delegate fromeach municipal township and city of the third class in the county, to beelected at a meeting of the school board of such township, on a day andat a place and hour specified in said call: Provided, That if,by virtue of section 8 of this act, any city of the first or second classshall decide to adopt the provisions of this act in the matter of countyuniformity, then the city so adopting shall send the superintendent of thecity schools, and one other person to be elected by the board of education,to be the representatives of such city on the county text-book board.

SEC. 3. District boards shall vote in the county and township in whichtheir schoolhouses are located.

SEC. 4. The delegates so elected shall constitute a county text-bookboard, whose duty it shall be to select and prescribe the text-books tobe used in each branch of study required by law to be taught in the publicschools.

SEC. 5. No text-book shall be prescribed in pursuance of the provisionsof this act unless the publishers thereof shall have first filed with thecounty superintendent of public instruction a guarantee of its price, qualityand the permanence of supply for five years, together with a good and sufficientbond for the faithful compliance with said guarantee, conditioned in suchsum as the county text-book board may determine and approve.

SEC. 6. The county superintendent of public instruction shall be exofficio chairman of said county text-book board and shall furnish eachschool district a list of the text-books selected and prescribe in pursuanceof the provisions of this act, which list shall be posted by the districtclerks in their respective schoolhouses, and said list shall comprise theonly legal text-books for the schools of said county, and it is hereby requiredof the school board to conform to the said lists in the text-books prescribedfor use in their schools.

SEC. 7. A county text-book board may be elected once in every five yearsin each county, in the manner prescribed in this act, whose powers and dutiesshall be the same as those herein before enumerated.

SEC. 8. Any cities of first and second class are hereby exempted fromthe provisions of this act, except that any such city may, by a vote ofits board of education, decided to join in a uniformity of text-books withthe county in which each city is situate, and so deciding such city shallbe represented on the county text-book board, as provided in section 2 ofthis act.

SEC. 9. When a uniformity of text-books shall be adopted in any countyin pursuance of the provisions of this act no change shall be made in suchcounty for a period of five years from the date of said adoption of anyparticular series of text-books; but no member of any board of education,school board or text-book board, and no teacher, while employed in teaching,shall act as agent for any author, publisher or book seller; nor shall anymember of said boards, or any of them, or any employed teacher, directlyor indirectly receive any gift, emolument or reward for his or her influencein recommending or introducing any book, school apparatus or furniture ofany kind whatever; and any member of either of said boards and any teacherwho shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guiltyof a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished as provided in section2 of chapter 157 of the laws of 1879.

SEC. 10. Section 1 of chapter 157 of the laws of 1879 is hereby repealed.

SEC. 11. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after itspublication in the official State paper.

Approved March 5, 1885.

I do hereby certify that the forgoing is a true and correct copy of theoriginal enrolled bill now on file in my office.

Subscribed my name and affixed my official seal.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

Sidney Carnine, an old Winfield boy, who left a few weeks ago for anabode in Oregon, took in Salt Lake City on his way and sends the COURIERthis description of its principal sights.

The population of the city is estimated at 24,000; Salt Lake City possesses140 acres of public parks. There are three hospitals in the city: St. Mary,Catholic; St. Mark's, Episcopalian; and Deseret, Mormon. The streets runwith the four points of the compass, and are eight rods wide including sidewalksof twenty feet. There are 92 miles of streets in the city. Salt Lake Cityis partly lighted by the electric light. An extensive telephone system isin operation with its own limits. The elevation of the city above the sealevel is 4,261 feet. The large Tabernacle was planned by President BrighamYoung and is situated in the west center of the Temple block. It was commencedon the 26^th of July, 1864, and was completed and dedicated October6^th, 1867. There is nothing very attractive about the outsideappearance of the building. To be appreciated it must be viewed from theinside. It is elliptical in shape, 250 feet long by 150 feet wide and 70feet in height from the floor to the ceiling at its highest part, or 80feet from the floor to the top of the roof. The interior of the buildingpresents an oval arch without any center support. The largest self-supportingarch in America, constructed wholly of wood. The bents of the roof are composedof a lattice truss, and rest upon forty-four sand-stone piers, each threefeet by nine in size and from fourteen to twenty feet in height. The gallery,which extends around the building except at the west end, is 480 feet longby 30 feet in width. The entire building has a seating capacity of about10,000. It has twenty doors, most of which are nine feet wide and all openoutward so that an audience of 10,000 could gain egress in case of an accidentin a very few minutes. In this respect the building is certainly withouta rival in the world. In the west end of the Tabernacle is situated thelarge organ; second to none in the United States in appearance and sweetnessof tone, and is exceeded in size by but one. It was constructed entirelyby Utah mechanics, under the direction of Joseph Ridges, Esq. A small amountof the material used in its construction was imported, but the principalpart of it was produced at home. To hear the melody of the organ richlyrepays a visit to the Tabernacle. The front towers of the organ have analtitude of fifty-eight feet and contain the thirty-two feet gilded pipes.The side towers are nearly the same height as the front. The dimensionsof the organ are 30 x 33 feet and it requires four blowers. S. B. C.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

There are a great many traveling frauds going through the eastern portionof the State victimizing the farmers. Patent plows, harrows, job lots ofgroceries, cloth and other articles are palmed off on the unsuspecting,which, upon examination, prove to be worthless. It does not make any differencewhether they can get the money for their goods or not; they will take notes,and by selling to a third party, who is innocent of any complicity in thefraud, all defenses are cut off. The latest scheme was one practiced onJacob Geyer, a worthy farmer living about twelve miles from Lawrence. Aslick-tongued agent of the Star lightning rod company persuaded him to investin lightning rods. The agent agreed to put up sixty feet of rod with allthe ornamental paraphernalia used on the modern lightning rod for the insignificantsum of $5.40. The agent gave as a reason for offering such low rates thathe wanted this as an advertisem*nt. The unsuspecting granger signed a contractand the stranger departed. In a few days another man arrived and proceededto put up the rods, after which he figured up the cost and presented a billof $190. Mr. Geyer refused to pay this, and warm words ensued, but finallycompromised the matter by giving his note for $115.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

Captain John Smith, the new Penitentiary Warden, will enter upon thedischarge of his duties April 1.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

Gen. Grant's salary under the retirement bill will be $13,000 per year.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

Gen. Hatch declares that he will not permit the boomers to advance beyondSalt Fork, forty miles south of Arkansas City.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

Secretary Bayard has nine girls and three boys, and we cannot understandwhy one of the latter does not succeed to the Bayard family seat in thesenate.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

Thomas County, Kansas, has a new paper called the Cat--Thomas Catwe presume. The name sounds as though D. O. McCray had returned toKansas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

Of all the fool names for newspapers, Kansas takes the cake. We havethe Prairie Dog, the Astonisher, and Paralizer,and now a paper to be started in Thomas County to be called the ThomasCat.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

A woman has been engaged by the faculty of the Cincinnati Law Collegeas professor of elocution. The students have shown an unexpected favor towardthe innovation, and take a lively interest in the additional study.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

The first official act of President Cleveland was the nomination of hisCabinet, the second, affixing his name to the commission of U. S. Grantas an officer on the retired list of the United States Army, with the rankof general.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

Casey, Murphy and Smith, the bandits who robbed the Wells Fargo expressat San Joaquin, Cal., last October, have been sent to the San Quentin penitentiaryfor ten years: a year for every cent stolen, as the Wells-Fargo box onlycontained a stray dime.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

It has been recently estimated that 7,000,000 sermons are preached tothe American people every year; and yet men go on voting the Democraticticket just as if they expect to shirk responsibility for their sins bypleading ignorance and want of proper warning.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

Congressman Perkins secured passage by the House of an appropriationof $4,000 to erect a monument in the cemetery at Baxter Springs, Kansas,to the memory of the slain of Gen. Blunt's bodyguard, who were massacredthere in September, 1862, by Quantrill's band.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

A bill has passed the Minnesota Legislature forbidding the sale of flashystory papers, obscene and lascivious pictures, and illustrated papers givenup to chronicling crime, under the pretense of being sporting papers. Thelaw is good enough to be speedily passed by all legislatures.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

When Lincoln was asked to put one of his warmest Illinois friends, anda most capable man, into his cabinet, he declined on the ground that itwas enough for Illinois that she had the Presidency. "We must not actthe hog," he said in his quaint way, "because we happen to havebeen entrusted with the key to the pig-pen."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

Kansas has the most perfect common school system in America, not exceptingMassachusetts. We have six thousand schoolhouses, costing $60,000,000. Wehave better schoolhouses, better equipments, and better instructors thanany other state. That accounts for the high grade of intelligence and civilizationamong our youth.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

A Southerner complains in the Philadelphia Press that northernvisitors make fun of the country on their way to New Orleans. "Thelines of railway," he says, "run through the most desolate tractsof Alabama and Mississippi into New Orleans, and the poor houses, lean cattle,and even the raw-boned pigs, call forth shouts of laughter from both menand women who should know better."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

The wealth of the United States is estimated at $20,000,000,000 and thatof Great Britain at four-fifths that sum, giving to each inhabitant of theformer $900 and to the latter an even $1,000. In the United States 72 partsof the wealth go to the laborer, 23 to capital, and 5 to the government.In Great Britain $1 parts go to labor, 33 to capital, and 23 to the government.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

The New York Sun, in the interest of reform in English "asshe is spoke," demands that the word "position" shall notbe used to designate office or employment. A position materially consideredis a standing point, a place. In an intellectual sense, it may be used toexpress the mental standing-ground of the thinker. It behooves us in thesedays to carry our Murray around with us.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

A New York paper publishes the portraits of a couple of cowboys, labeledthe champion terrors of the border. This will destroy another of the gladillusions of the young who have been wont to fondly picture the cowboy withhair a foot long and bad eyes; these terrors look like a pair of clergymenwho have suffered a relapse in the measles; a pair of revolvers is all thatsuggests war about them.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

The number of George Washington's kin to whom invitations were sent onthe occasion of the dedication of the Washington monument was 300. Theyare most numerous in Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky, but a considerablenumber of them also reside in Ohio, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, California,and Georgia, where they have usually settled on the most productive farmlands.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

When he was inaugurated, Grover Cleveland lacked fourteen days of being48 years old. Only one younger man has been inaugurated president, and thatwas General Grant, who lacked some six weeks of being 47 years old whenhe entered the White House. Franklin Pierce was three months over 48, andArthur and Garfield were each a trifle less than 50. All other presidentshave been older, William Henry Harrison, with his 68 years, being the oldestof them all at taking the oath of office.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

Kentucky blue grass makes as luxuriant a growth in Kansas as in Kentuckyand it is difficult to overestimate its value, as a good growth means sixweeks later pasture and a month earlier in the spring. There is no grassthat grows that stock will fatten on more readily than our native prairiegrowth, but the first severe frost kills it, and it is late starting inthe spring, and again it is easily killed by close pasturing, does not makeso dense a growth as blue grass, and consequently takes one third more acresto supply food for a given number of cattle. We hope in five years to seea portion of every farm in Cowley County well seeded with cultivated grasses.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

A revival of religion is spreading over the Ohio valley from Wheeling,West Virginia, to the Kentucky line. At Barnesville 300 have been converted,and as many more at Bellaire. At Fairmount the churches will not hold thepeople. Scores of other towns and cities report conversions ranging from25 to 500 each. The country press is filled with accounts of revivals. AtGallipolis the great meeting still continues. The First Methodist Episcopalchurch, which will seat 1,000 people, is filled nightly with converts, tothe exclusion of old members and spectators. Prayer meetings are held incounting rooms and in the cashiers' offices in the banks. The saloons arenearly all gone, and the editors of two of the city papers are doing evangelicalwork.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

In three weeks we will be called upon to elect a Mayor and eight Councilmento govern the affairs of our city for two years to come. It will be a seriousmatter to make a mistake in the selection of these men--serious becausethe very life of its residents depends upon a thorough cleaning up of ourvile and filth-polluted alleys and cesspools before the coming of warm weather,and a strong and effective city government alone can do it. Then we arenow at a most critical point in our history. New enterprises are knockingat our doors. We need men at the head of our municipal government who willproperly encourage them--men of broad and comprehensive views who have thenerve and ability to foster everything for the upbuilding of our city.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

Every person and every community has at some time in their existencea supreme opportunity, which if taken at its flood, leads on to prosperityand success. That time is not far distant in the history of Winfield andCowley County. The tremendous agitation going on all over the country onthe Oklahoma question must soon result in opening that country for settlement.Far-seeing capitalists know this and as a result several new railroad enterprisesare pushing for the border. Some town in Cowley or Sumner will be the gate-wayfor that Country. Will it be Winfield? It lies with her citizens to determine.They must be looked after, encouraged, fostered, and made permanent. IfWinfield falters now or proves unable to grasp the situation, she is lost.With clear headed determined men at the helm, her future is assured. Citizens,look well to this matter, for you have much at stake in the result.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

The practice of dickering and trading and scattering the state institutionsall over the state is vicious, but that is just the kind of foolishnessthat was enacted by the recent legislature. An asylum or school for imbecilechildren is to be established at Winfield, and a "reformatory"is to be built "west of the sixth principal meridian." All thesetrades and "collusions" are made by the members of the legislaturesolely in the interests of certain localities, without reference to theconvenience or the broader interests of the people of the whole state. Thepolitical center of Kansas is Topeka, to which more people are compelledto go every year than to any other town in the state. Common sense and ordinaryfairness would say that the state institutions ought to be located wherethe people could reach them with the least inconvenience and expense. Theidea of placing a state institution at a point which will require the citizensof the state to travel 600 miles to reach it is an outrage. But common senseand justice are not always taken into consideration by the legislature.

Abilene Gazette.

The Dickinson County editors are probably dyspeptic fellows who reasonfrom the range and impetus of their own selfishness. The fact is that thepolicy of scattering these state institutions was long ago established,and we believe wisely so. This being the case it is entirely proper thatCowley, the fifth county in the State in point of agricultural productionand population, should have a fair share of state favors. She has securedthis and is now ready to help Abilene or some other nice, quiet, orderlylittle country town in the sparsely settled and unknown northwest to geta slice of public benefits. Please don't make wry faces at us.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

A representative of the Wichita Beacon stepped into the U. S.Land office the other morning and found the force up to their eyes in work,and learned that the office is having, and has had for the past year, morebusiness than in any other period in its history, notwithstanding the generalimpression that Uncle Sam's land had been most all taken. The followingstatistics will be of interest to many of our readers. During the past yearending March 1^st, 1885, there have been in the office 173 homesteadentries, 105 timber culture, and 475 Osage land entries, comprising 436,858.92acres, from which was received $412,768.55. The cash sales fees and commissionsduring this period amount to $11,404.86, making the total receipts of theoffice for the year $424,292.55.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

Do you wish to buy a home in a pleasant climate, where the winters areshort and mild, and the summers and falls long and beautiful? Then cometo Kansas. Do you desire to buy a home in a country where the features arevaried--beautiful hills and lovely valleys? Then come to Kansas. Do youwish to buy a home where lands are rich and fertile, where there are goodlaws, schools, and churches convenient? Then come to Kansas. Do you wishto buy a home where you can raise wheat, oats, corn, rye, barley, sorghum,and broomcorn? Then come to Kansas. Do you wish to buy a farm where youcan raise all kinds of garden truck? Then come to Kansas. Do you wish tobuy a farm where you can raise all the products of the temperate zone? Thencome to Kansas. Do you want to buy a home in one of the greatest and grandeststates in the Union? Then come to Kansas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

That is a curious compilation of words used in inaugural addresses bothas to the total number as well as number of I's used. Harrison's inauguralwas the longest; with 8,678 words, and Washington's second address the shortest,with 134 words, Johnson next with 362, and Arthur with 431. In his firstaddress Mr. Lincoln used the I 43 times, in his second only once. Washingtonused the I 20 times; Van Buren and Harrison 38 times each; Grant 19 times;Jackson 11 times; Hayes, 16 times; Arthur 1 time and Cleveland 5 times.Cleveland's address contained 1,688 words. The average number of words is2,266. The average number of times of the use of the pronoun I is 17.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

The bible, which Cleveland kissed on taking the oath of office, was onewhich was presented him by his mother when a boy. Our Democratic brethrenwho criticized the impulsive Garfield for kissing his aged mother beforethe assembled multitude on the occasion of his inauguration, will freelycondone this bit of sentiment on the part of a man to whom gush was supposedto be a stranger. Time makes all things even, when such small chickens comehome to roost.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

The London Times shows its disappointment because Clevelanddid not openly insist upon the adoption of the British economic policy.The Times says "the inaugural throws no light upon the mainquestions awaiting solution." This is too bad. The British must bepatient. It might have been an oversight on Cleveland's part.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

The State tax for the next two years will be four and a half mills uponthe dollar according to the assessment rolls. For the last two years theState tax was five mills upon each dollar.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

Last Friday at a meeting of the cabinet, the Oklahoma question was consideredat length and it was said the impression prevailed among those who contemplatedthe invasion of the territory that President Arthur's proclamation relativeto the trespassing upon Indian lands had become inoperative with the closeof his administration. To prevent such action of the invaders as would naturallyissue upon the prevalence of such an impression, it was thought best thatPresident Cleveland should issue a proclamation similar to that issued whileArthur was chief executive.

The following proclamation has been issued by the President.

WHEREAS, It is alleged that certain individuals, associations, persons,and corporations are in unauthorized possession of the territory known asthe Oklahoma lands within the Indian Territory, which are designated, described,and recognized by the treaties and laws of the United States and by theexecutive authority thereof as Indian lands; and,

WHEREAS, It is further alleged that certain other persons or associationswithin the territory and jurisdiction of the United States have begun andset on foot preparations for an organized forcible entry and settlementupon the aforesaid land and are now threatening such entry and occupation;and,

WHEREAS, The laws of the United States provide for the removal of personsresiding on or being found upon such Indian lands and territory withoutpermission expressly and legally obtained of the interior department; nowtherefore, for the purpose of protecting the public interests as well asthe interests of the Indian nations and tribes and to the end that no personor persons may be induced to enter upon said territory where they will notbe allowed to remain without permission of the authority aforesaid, I, GroverCleveland, president of the United States, do hereby warn and admonish alland every person or persons now in occupation of such lands, and all suchperson or persons who are intending, preparing, or threatening to enterin or settle upon the same, that they will not be permitted to enter uponsaid territory, or if already therein not be allowed to remain thereon,and that if due regard for and voluntary obedience to the laws and treatiesof the United States and this admonition and warning be not sufficient toeffect the purposes and intentions of the government, herein it is declaredthat the military power of the United States will be invoked to abate allsuch unauthorized possession and to prevent any such threatened entry andoccupation and to remove all such intruders from said Indian lands.

In testimony thereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the sealof the United States to be affixed.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

The Bonham case occurred at Independence on the 3^rd of February.Sarah Bonham, Charles Bonham, and Ella Bonham were murdered. Frank Bonham,the only remaining member of the family, was charged with the crime andwas held at the preliminary trial for the crime. Last Friday the case cameup for trial in the district court and his attorneys asked for a changeof venue. The judge granted it and sent the case to Cherokee County. Thismade the citizens of his neighborhood so incensed that a mob of about 125men made a raid on the jail and broke the locks and doors down and tookFrank Bonham from jail and went to the railroad trestle and hung him. Thisends one of the most shocking crimes ever committed in any country. Thepeople were willing for him to have a fair trial in Montgomery County, butwould not consent to his being taken away from that county. Since his arresthe has maintained silence and an indifferent manner and would not pleadwhen arraigned, and maintained silence throughout, and his attorneys havenever given anything to the public that would indicate his innocence, andit is the general belief that at the final trial they would have plead insanity.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

The particulars are given of the killing of one Clark, a horse thief,and the fatal shooting of Frank Harrington, city marshal of Jewell City,Jewell County, Kansas, 200 miles west of Atchison, last Saturday. Clarkhad been traced there by the sheriff of Rice County to a farm near JewellCity, and had surrounded the house with Marshal Harrington and two deputies.Clark ran from the house shooting as he ran, one bullet taking effect inHarrington's head. One of the deputies then shot and killed Clark.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

A man named W. O. Bone, aged thirty-eight years, from Nokomis, Illinois,shot and killed himself in his room at the Laclede Hotel at Kingman March14^th. He was under the influence of liquor: no other cause assigned.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

A bill passed both branches of the Kansas Legislature providing for theestablishment of a Soldier's Orphan Home, and appropriated $25,000 therefor.This home is to be located wherever the best and largest donation will bemade to it. The donation must include not less than 100 acres of land, and$5,000 in money. It is placed under the control and supervision of the StateBoard of Charities, who are empowered to locate and build said Home.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

The library in the White House, where the President receives Congressionalvisitors, was converted into a library by Mrs. Fillmore, the first wifeof the President of that name. The desk in the room was made of the timbersof a British ship found at sea by an American vessel and restored to England.The Navy Department of Great Britain had the desk made and presented itto the United States.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

General Custer's widow is now living in New York, getting along as bestshe can upon the slim pension the Government awards her. She is a usefulhard-working little lady and is connected with the Women's Decorative ArtAssociation. She possesses many of the relics of the late war which herhusband left behind. The most interesting, perhaps, is the flag of truce,under cover of which General Lee surrendered to General Grant.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

We hear it reported this week that a four-foot vein of coal has beendiscovered in the northwest part of the county, and only fourteen feet belowthe surface. If this report proves true, we have but little doubt that agood vein could be found almost anywhere in the county at a reasonable depth.Now let our coal company go to work in earnest and prospect for coal inthe neighborhood of Sedan. Sedan Graphic.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

The Topeka Democratic Flambeau Club gave one of their "Hell withthe lid off" exhibitions at the Inauguration and succeeded in frighteningthe timid Washingtonians almost to death, besides winning a world of gloryby their unique display.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

One of the bills in the California assembly gives to any young man under26 years of age, who learns a trade by serving an apprenticeship of threeyears, and is a moral young man, $250 out of the treasury.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

President Arthur signed an executive order throwing open to settlementthe greater part of the Winnebago and Crow Reservation in Dakota, embracingsome 600,000 acres.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

A new Methodist church costing $20,000 was dedicated at Clay Center.Seven thousand dollars was raised by the audience to free the church fromdebt.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

It is said that Senator Plumb is the most rapid speaker that has beenin the Senate for many years.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

There are now 802 convicts in the penitentiary, with only 688 cells toaccommodate them.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

Governor Martin and the State Board of Railroad Commissioners returnedhome from St. Louis Monday, where they went on Sunday to have a conferencewith First Vice President Hayes and General Manager Hoxie, of the MissouriPacific Railroad Company, relative to the strike on that system. The conferenceresulted in an agreement being accepted by Messrs. Hayes and Hoxie, whichis believed will put an end to the strike.

The following suggestions have been presented to the undersigned as asolution of the difficulties at present impeding the operations of theserailroads.

To Captain R. S. Hayes, First Vice President and Chief Executive of theMissouri Pacific Railroad Company and associated roads.

WHEREAS, On account of the strike among certain employees of the MissouriPacific Railroad Company in the States of Missouri and Kansas, resultingin the stoppage of all freight traffic over said company's lines in saidStates, to the great detriment of the business interests and rights of thepeople of said States, and a continuance of which endangers the public peaceand the safety of the company's property; and

WHEREAS, The undersigned, representing the States above named, are anxiousto restore harmonious relations between the said company and its employees,and to restore to the public the unobstructed use of said lines of railroad,we do recommend and request the said company to restore to its strikingemployees in Missouri and Kansas the same wages paid them in September,1884, including one and one-half price for extra time worked, and to restoreall said striking employees to their several employments without prejudiceto them on account of the strike.

Believe that the above will constitute a just and fair settlement, werecommend their acceptance by the striking employees as well as by the MissouriPacific Railway Company.

With the desire to concur in the recommendations expressed above by theState officials, and to open the usual avenues of commerce, and with a spiritof amity and harmony toward the employees of these companies, this is togive notice that the rates of wages and terms above specified will go intoeffect on Monday morning, March 16, and be in effect from and after thatdate. Hereafter said rates will not be changed except after thirty days'notice thereof given in the usual way.

Heads of departments to which the above applies will act in accordancewith the provisions of the above circular.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

The following is the paragraph inserted in the Indian appropriation bill,on motion of Hon. Thomas Ryan. We have published it before, but republishthat it may be seen just what the law is.

"That the President is hereby authorized to open negotiations withthe Creeks, Seminoles and Cherokees for the purpose of opening to settlementunder the homestead laws, the unassigned lands in said Indian Territoryceded by them respectively by the United States by the several treatiesof the August 11, 1866; March 21, 1866, and July 19, 1866, and for thatpurpose the sum of $5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be andthe same is hereby appropriated out of the money in the Treasury, not otherwiseappropriated. His action hereunder to be reported to Congress."

The Washington correspondent of the St. Louis Republican commentson this as follows.

"It was stricken from the bill by the Senate Appropriation Committee,and the action of the committee was sustained by the Senate. The House confereeson the disagreeing votes on the bill insisted on retaining the session,but that the Senate conferees would not agree to. Finally, on the last dayof the session all the other disagreements had been reconciled except thatreferred to, and when the subject was presented to the Senate, Senator Vestmoved that the Senate recede, and this motion was carried by a vote of 33to 27, and the section became law. Among those voting in the affirmativewere Bayard, Garland, and Lamar, now members of the cabinet. It is expectedthat the execution of this new law and the Oklahoma question will soon bethe subject of a cabinet discussion. It cannot be doubted that the Presidentwill exercise the authority thus given him, to open the proposed negotiationswith the Creeks, Seminoles, and Cherokees, but it will be noticed that theterms of the new law forbid him to do anything, except to conduct the negotiations,and to report the result to Congress. Hence, it will be seen that furtheraction by Congress must be had, before the lands in question can be openedto settlement, under the new homestead law."

The dispatches in yesterday's papers stated that the Cabinet was in sessionthe day before discussing the question, but at this writing we have notheard whether they came to any conclusion or not.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

We learn with regret that some people in Lawrence are disposed to snarlbecause they lost the imbecile school and that they blame their delegationin the legislature for what happened. We do not believe that the best peopleof our neighboring city participate in this feeling, and our remarks shallbe addressed only to the probable few who do. In the first place it is possiblefor a man to look so long and so longingly on the pie when it is good asto become convinced that he needs and deserves and must have all the pieon the plate. But if a man proceeds on the supposition that he can get allthe pie on the plate and attempts to so help himself he will find, firsthe knows that he gets no pie at all. Now Lawrence has the best and mostdesirable of all the State institutions, the State university. She had theimbecile asylum only as a temporary matter, it having been sent there onlybecause the State had an unoccupied building which could temporarily bedevoted to that purpose. For several sessions of the legislature CowleyCounty has worked desperately to secure this asylum for Winfield. That partof the State has nothing in the way of a State institution and, like severalother western sections, has felt that it ought to have a share of the Stateinvestments. As a result, the Cowley County members and their friends cameto the legislature this time prepared to live or not let live. In view ofthis fact, the Douglas County representatives in the house, headed by Mr.Roberts, determined to follow the advice of their friends and make no bitterto prevent the removal of the asylum. This was the only wise course possibleunder the circ*mstances, and Douglas County ought to be proud of her membersfor having the good sense to follow it. The university now has nothing todivide with in the matter of geography, and it will always have the friendshipinstead of the enmity of one of the strongest and most prosperous sectionsof Kansas. The appropriation for the natural history building was the firstfruit of this wise alliance and time will further show the wisdom of it.Topeka Capital.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

A posse of deputy sheriffs from Wellington attempted the arrest of somedesperate characters at Hunnewell last Friday, which resulted in a livelyrunning fight, but no one fatally wounded. They arrested one of the band,by the name of Pat Hanley, at first, before the remainder had sniffed thedanger, but soon the alarm was raised and they started for the Territoryline, the deputies close at their heels, both parties exchanging severalshots without effect. When they neared the line, the idea took possessionof them to rescue their comrade, and the roughs, outnumbering the sheriff'sparty, suddenly wheeled about, and before the posse recovered from theirsurprise, their bird had flow to the free air of the Indian Territory. Severalshots were fired at the escaping party, but only one of them was known tobe wounded, and he not fatally, it is thought.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

"Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be sticking in atree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping." Sir WalterScott.

The custom of appointing an Arbor Day now prevails in eight States ofthe Union, and it is believed that it will soon be honored in all the Statesand Territories, the East and West following the head of the Central Statesof the Missouri Valley. The people of Kansas went to planting trees as soonas they began to plow, and increasing millions of shade, fruit, and foresttrees are planted every year. The love of Kansas for trees has shown itselfon every farm and village lot; in city parks and the grounds of the churchand the school, and the God's Acre where our beloved ones sleep their lastsleep. This feeling is equally strong in the mind of the old and young--inwomen not less than men; it leads to practical results in increasing thevalue of land, and in ameliorating the asperities of our climate--that therehas been an increase in the rainfall in Kansas is fully proved by the statisticsof our oldest meteorologist--and it leads to uses of beauty in adorningour homes, and making them scenes of loveliness, the remembrance of whichwill follow our children to the last days of their old age. The State whichthe pioneers found treeless and a desert now bears upon its fertile bosommore than twenty millions of fruit trees, and more than two hundred thousandacres of forest trees, all planted by our own people.

In view of these facts, and in obedience to the popular will, I, JohnA. Martin, Governor of Kansas, hereby set apart Thursday, April 2, 1885,as Arbor Day, and respectfully ask that it be made a general holiday. Schoolofficers and teachers can greatly aid in carrying out the purpose of theday by giving their pupils a holiday, and by devoting special attentionto the adornment of school grounds and parks.

Done at Topeka, this 16^th day of March, A. D., 1885, and ofthe State the twenty-fifth year.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

A Washington special to the Chicago Tribune says:

The Postoffice Department has received inquiries from all quarters asto the new legislation in the postoffice appropriation bill. It was notpossible, on account of the changes made in conference, to ascertain inwhat the changes as to postage were until the bill had been officially printed.A certified copy of the bill, furnished by the State Department, has justbeen received from the government printer. The following are the importantchanges which will take effect, beginning with July 1, 1885.

First: The weight of all single rate letters is increased from one-halfounce each or fraction thereof to one ounce each or fraction thereof. Thesame increase of weight is allowed for drop letters, whether mailed at stationswhere there is a free delivery or where carrier service is not established.

Second. All newspapers sent from the office of publication, includingsample copies, or when sent from a news agency to actual subscribers thereto,or to other news agents, shall be entitled to transmission at one cent perpound or fraction thereof, the postage to be prepaid. This is a reductionof one-half from existing rates.

Third. Any article in a newspaper or other publication may be markedfor observation, except by written, or printed words, without increase ofpostage.

Fourth. That a special stamp of the value of ten cents may be issued,which, when attached to a letter, in addition to the lawful postage thereon,shall entitle the letter to immediate delivery at any place containing 4,000population or over, according to the federal census, within the carrierlimit of any free delivery office, or within one mile of the postoffice,or any other postoffice coming within the provisions of this law, whichmay, in like manner, be designated as a special delivery office; that suchspecially stamped letters shall be delivered between 7 o'clock a.m., andmidnight; that a book shall be provided in which the person to whom theletter is addressed shall acknowledge its receipt; that messengers for thisspecial delivery are to be paid 80 percent of the face value of all thestamps received and recorded in a month, providing that the aggregate compensationpaid to any one person for such service shall not exceed $30 per month;and providing, further, that the regulation for the delivery of those speciallystamped letters shall in no way interfere with the prompt delivery of lettersas provided by existing law and regulations.

These are all the provisions of the new law which make changes in relationto postage. The Government has doubled the weight which may be carried fortwo cents, has reduced the postage one-half on newspapers sent from publicationsoffices, and has provided that a letter, for ten cents additional, may beimmediately delivered by special messenger at any time between 7 o'clockin the morning and midnight. The friends of this special stamp feature expectthat it will materially add to the revenue.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

There is perhaps no subject except the management of the liquor trafficthat elicits more thought from those who look to the well-being of societythan this social evil. Of course, everyone has opinions, but in few caseshave these opinions been formulated into a basis for cooperative work. Theneed for such work is manifest every place, especially in towns and cities,where the subject forces itself upon society until to leave it festeringand corroding becomes a crime which rests upon those who have the managementof public affairs, and not to make laws to regulate or prohibit makes thebetter class of society parties participant in the crime. So this mattercomes to the front and must in some way be disposed of. Some, whom we believehonestly think that they have the good of society at heart, say, "Letthis evil be licensed and then have medical institutions, supported by theState or city funds, where the poor, moral lepers of the weaker sex canbe cared for when in a condition to spread contagion among the strongersex who are so magnanimous as to patronize and support these licensed institutions."Of course, we think the opinion of license a fallacy and beg leave to speakout in meeting. Moral and christian women believe that all evils, so faras law can do it, should be prohibited. But we are told that if this weredone with the evil in hand that virtuous women could not walk the streetswithout being insulted. We would like to have the opportunity of tryingit, and imagine that after a few had been molested, our good men would speedilytake into consideration the feasibility of building from State or city fundsan institution where such offenders might be incarcerated. And again itis seen by recent demonstrations how useless it is for good women to tryto do anything for their fallen sisters without an institution where theymay be placed under religious influences and be thoroughly drilled in goodmorals and manners.

It is also said in reference to prohibitory legislation on this subjectthat men and women will never cease to do evil until their moral natureis changed by the education of self-control, which must necessarily be taughtby mothers. This is a pretty theory, but I have known mothers who have beendiligent, self-sacrificing, and arduous in the moral as well as intellectualtraining of their children who find that the result of their labor doesnot altogether rest with themselves, but that when the child's majorityis attained the glitter of licensed quagmires are in thousands of casesthe ignus fateus which decoys them to destruction. We believe inthis moral training, and that in addition to the mother, God must be theteacher and that He teaches in accordance with what we are willing to learn.We have done all we can do for ourselves, individually and collectively,He will renew our moral natures and take away the tendency to sin. Whenour Savior came to the grave of Lazarus, He said to the people standingby, "Roll ye away the stone from the mouth of the sepulcher,"when He cried, "Lazarus come forth." He commanded them to do whatthey could; He did for them what they could not do for themselves. So withus, licensed sin has been tried for lo these many years, always a failure.Let us by prohibitory laws roll these stones from the mouth of the sepulcherof society and then ask God to breathe new life into these souls dead intrespass and sin. Let us talk this matter up in communities and states andask for a law, either state or municipal, and an appropriation to builda refuge for fallen women. A. WOMAN.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

"He wanted something to drink," faberizes the Eagle, ofBurden, "but couldn't get it. His friends couldn't get it, and moreover,offered to bet him a dollar that he could not get a drop of liquor thatday. He took it. Going to a drug store he called for two ounces of sulphurand six ounces of alcohol--thoroughly mixed. The mixture was given him andlooked the disgusting thing it was. Going back to the--the--down the street,he sat quietly and listened to the chaff of his city friends and their demandsfor the stakes, until the sulphur had settled to the bottom of the bottle.Then he poured off six ounces of alcohol, diluted it in six ounces of water,and the party fired it down their necks. Our hero made fifty-five cents,three fools, and a drink by the operation."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

A tunnel a mile long has been found on the Island of Samos, built centuriesbefore the Christian era and used to supply the old seaport with drinkingwater. Small pipes for the water are laid in the tunnel, each open on theupper side, so that it could be cleaned.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

From a critical paper by Edmund C. Stedman in the February Centurywe quote the following: "If the question is asked, 'Would theverse of Dr. Holmes be held in as much favor if he had not confirmed hisreputation by prose replete with poetic humor and analogy?' The fairestanswer may be in the negative. Together, his writings owe their main successto an approximate exhibition of the author himself. Where the man is evenmore lively than his work, the public takes kindly to one and the other.The jester is privileged even by the court of art and letters; yet if onecould apply to Holmes, the jester, homilist, and man of feeling--his ownprocess, we should have analysis indeed. Were the theme assigned to himself,we should have an inimitable honest setting forth of his merits and foibles,from this keen anatomist of mind and body, this smile-begetter, this purveyorto so many feasts. As a New Englander, he long ago was awarded the highestsectional praise--that of being among all his tribe, the cutest. His clevernessand versatility bewilder outside judges. Is he a genius? By all means. Andin what degree? His prose, for the most part, is peculiarly original. Hisserious poetry has scarcely been the serious work of his life; but in hisspecialty, verse suited to the frolic or pathos of occasions, he has givenus much of the best delivered in his own time, and has excelled all othersin delivery. Both his strength and weakness lie in his genial temper andhis brisk, speculative habit of mind. For, though almost the only modernpoet who has infused enough spirit into fable and rostrum verse to makeit worth recording, his poetry has appealed to the present rather than thefuture; and again, he has too curious and analytic a brain for purely artisticwork. Of Holmes as a satirist, which it is not unusual to call him, I havesaid but little His metrical satires are of the amiable sort that debarshim from kinsmanship with the Juvenals of old, or the Popes and Churchillsof more recent times. There is more real satire in one of Hosea Biglow'slyrics, than in all our laughing philosopher's irony, rhymed and unrhymed.Yet he is a keen observer of the follies and chances which satire makesits food. Give him personages, reminiscences, manners to touch upon, andhe is quite at home. He may not reproduce these imaginatively, in theirstronger combinations; but the Autocrat makes no unseemly beast when hesays: 'It was in teaching of Life that we came together. I thought I knewsomething about that, that I could speak or write about it to some purpose.'Let us consider, then, that if Holmes had died young, we should have misseda choice example of the New England fiber which strengthens while it lasts;that he has lived to round a personality that will be traditional for atleast the time granted to one or two less characteristic worthies of revolutionarydays; that--'twas all he wished'--a few of his lyrics already belong toour select anthology, and one or two of his books must be counted as factorsin what twentieth-century chroniclers will term (and here is matter forreflection) the development of early American literature.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

"Horace Greeley was a great eater; he didn't care much about quality,but went in for quantity," said John Schlosser, caterer of the DuquesneClub, while talking of some of his experiences the other day. Mr. Schlosserwas at one time caterer of a famous New York hotel, and afterward held thesame position at Welcker's, in Washington, and naturally he has a largefund of anecdotes of distinguished men.

"How did you become acquainted with Greeley's habits?" askedthe writer.

"I was caterer at the House when Greeley lived there,"replied Mr. Schlosser. "He was a very queer old man and a good onegenerally. He would sit in his room dressed in a dirty old dressing-gownwith an old pair of slippers on, and read the papers early in the morning.It was wonderful the number of newspapers he would read and throw in pilesall around the room, and if any of them were lost or were taken away whenhis room was cleaned up, he would be furious. He was a great eater of fruits.Nearly every day baskets and even barrels of fruit were sent to him. Hewas very fond of pineapples, and some friend sent him two and three barrelsat a time, which he enjoyed with great relish."

"Was he a good liver and fond of delicacies and French cooking?"

"Not at all. As long as a dish pleased his taste, he never stoppedto inquire what it was called or what it was made of. If he wanted a repetitionof it, he would say, 'I want some of that you gave me the other day,' andthat would end it. He was an enormous eater, but was too much of a farmerto go into details. He never gave any banquets or dinners to his friends.Sometimes one of his intimates, Mr. Beardsley, the lawyer, would give Mr.Greeley a dinner, but Greeley never gave him any in return. Mr. Greeleywas in bad health then, and I think his manner of eating did not make himany healthier." Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

Professor Tyndall, in a recent lecture on electricity, produced the clothesof a man who was taking refuge under a tree when it was struck by lightning.It was a foolish thing, he observed, to go under a tree during an electricstorm, unless a person stood some distance from the trunk. In this particularcase, however, the man's clothes were very wet, and, though they were verymuch torn, they formed a sufficiently good conductor for the lightning,and he escaped with his life. Had his raiment been dry, he would inevitablyhave been killed. Producing the man's boots, the lecturer pointed out thatthe uppers were torn to pieces by the electric fluid in its anxiety to reachthe earth; but the sole, into the constitution of which iron largely enteredin the shape of hobnails, formed a good conductor and was not hurt.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

The critics say that the only new or really good thing in Tennyson'slatest drama is the sentiment: "Men are God's trees and women are God'sflowers."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

I have approved House Bill No. 367, "An act amendatory of and supplementalto chapter 128 of the session laws of 1881, being an act entitled 'an actto prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors, except formedicinal, scientific and mechanical purposes, and to regulate the manufactureand sale thereof for such excepted purposes." But in so doing I desireto state that I believe section eight of this act confers upon a countyofficer very dangerous authority and power, which should not be vested inany officer, and which, in the hands of an unscrupulous man, may be grosslyabused, without fear or possibility of his punishment for such abuse. Myobjections to vesting such powers and authority in an officer are so numerousand serious that if the session was not so near its close, I should feelit to be my duty to return the act without my approval; but it would beimpossible, in the brief time remaining for legislative action, to securea reconsideration of the bill, with the view to the removal of the objectionablesection. I am, therefore, constrained, though with great reluctance, notto withhold my approval of the act. In my judgment, a brief test of thepractical working of section eight will demonstrate, not only its dangerousauthority, but its inefficiency to accomplish the result apparently intendedto be accomplished through its agency. The bill should also, in my judgment,have embodied a provision explicitly authorizing the sale, by wholesaledruggists, to legally qualified retail druggists, of liquors in quantitiesexceeding one gallon, upon the written or printed statements of such retaildruggists that said liquors would be sold only for medical, mechanical,or scientific purposes. Before approving the bill, however, I asked theopinion of the Attorney General, and of the two eminent attorneys who areChairmen respectively, of the Senate and House committees reporting thisbill as to whether, in letter or spirit, this act was intended to, or would,prohibit sales by wholesale druggists to legally qualified retail druggists,of liquors in quantities exceeding one gallon, and whether the provisionsof section 3, of House bill No. 367, could be construed as imposing therestraints and limitations therein set forth on sales by wholesale druggistsin larger quantities to retail druggists legally qualified. In reply, thegentlemen referred to give the following opinion.

Hon. John A. Martin, Governor of Kansas.

"DEAR SIR: In reply to your communication of this date, I desireto say that the sale of intoxicating liquors, under House bill No. 367,by one druggist having a permit to another druggist having a permit, inquantities of not less than one gallon, would not be a violation of theletter or spirit of said act, should it become a law; that a wholesale druggistin the State of Kansas, having a permit under the provisions of said act,can sell intoxicating liquors to retail druggists in the State of Kansashaving a permit, or to retail druggists out of the State of Kansas, uponthe written or printed statements of said druggists showing that the liquorsare not to be sold for other than medicinal, mechanical or scientific purposes,or any unlawful purpose, without violating the letter or spirit of the act."

"I concur fully in the within opinion. Geo. J. Barker, A. H. Vance."

Acting upon this advice, and with this understanding of the spirit andintent of the bill, I have given it my official approval. Very Respectfully,JOHN A. MARTIN, Governor.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

The civilized world will doubtless be astonished to learn that prohibitionapparently prohibits in Dodge City, about the last place on earth whereit would be expected that such a state of affairs would ever occur. On Saturdayof last week three or four of the leading saloons closed doors, but theothers continued to deal out the fluid openly until Tuesday afternoon, whencopies of the Topeka Capital containing the official publicationof the new prohibitory law arrived. The other saloonists then proclaimedthat the jig was up and that only "temperance drinks" could thereafterbe purchased over their bars. Considering the large number of drinks thatstill been absorbed at those places since that proclamation, it must beadmitted that there has been a miraculous conversion to "temperance"in Dodge City.

The Cowboy.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

Abstract of the monthly report of the County Auditor of Cowley County,Kansas, of claims certified to the County Clerk, on the First Monday ofMarch, 1885.

Emily Wooden pauper claim: $13.29

D. Palmer & Co. pauper claim: $5.00

Mowry & Sollitt pauper claim: $1.95

J. W. Johnston pauper claim: $10.00

Thos. Goodwin pauper claim: $14.25

L. L. Beck pauper claim: $12.00

McGuire Bros. pauper claims: $21.10; $5.00; $5.00

Holmes & Son pauper claim: $18.50

J. B. Lynn pauper claim: $7.00; $19.44; $1.35; $20.09

Eli Blenden pauper claim: $13.28

West & Dyer pauper claim: $5.45

J. S. Crabtree pauper claim: $64.50

Geo. Emerson pauper claim: $31.00

J. N. Harter pauper claim: $32.00

H. L. Wells pauper claim: $5.00

H. H. Horner pauper claim: $10.00

J. S. Rothrock pauper claim: $2.00

L. P. Marsh road damages: $40.00

Ephraim Carder road damages: $18.00

Justin Hollister road damages: $25.00

Jas. Brewington road damages: $100.00

H. W. Marsh, coroner's fees: $10.00

A. F. McClaren witness fees: $1.00

Mary E. McClaren witness fees: $1.00

Chas. H. Snyder witness fees: $1.00

Clark Bryant witness fees: $1.00

Adam Sipe witness fees: $1.00

S. R. Marsh, medical expert's fee: $7.00

Wm. Metzer juror fees: $1.00

Frank Lacey juror fees: $1.00

Geo. Bryant juror fees: $1.00

W. F. McDaniels juror fees: $1.00

Peter Sipe juror fees: $1.00

W. F. McDaniels juror fees: $1.00

Peter Sipe juror fees: $1.00

John Culver juror fees: $1.00

G. H. McIntire sheriff's fees: $6.00

H. W. Marsh, coroner's fees: $6.00

Frank Herrod witness fees: $1.00

Wm. Kelly witness fees: $1.00

Geo. Emerson witness fees: $1.00

Sol Z. Frederick witness fees: $1.00

S. B. Park witness fees: $1.00

S. R. Marsh, medical expert's fees: $1.00

W. S. Mendenhall, medical expert's fees: $10.00

T. H. Soward juror fees: $1.00

F. M. Pickens juror fees: $1.00

J. W. Arrowsmith juror fees: $1.00

O. M. Seward juror fees: $1.00

C. M. Leavitt juror fees: $1.00

A. B. Taylor juror fees: $1.00

G. H. McIntire sheriff's fees: $6.00

F. K. Raymond stenographers fee: $14.00

J. E. Beck witness fees: $5.80

W. D. Kreamer, J. P. fees: $26.35

G. H. McIntire, sheriff's fees: $7.60

J. S. Lewis, constable's fees: $14.30

J. J. Breene, constable's fees: $31.55

D. B. McCollum, refunded taxes: $23.07

John Mentch juror fees: $54.90

J. B. Plumb juror fees: $34.00

Geo. Allen juror fees: $4.80

W. Kirkpatrick juror fees: $73.20

Thos. Cooley juror fees: $6.00

Jas. Coulter juror fees: $58.00

M. B. Rowe juror fees: $73.00

J. W. Carlton juror fees: $68.00

Ford White juror fees: $73.00

A. J. Walck juror fees: $49.00

I. McIntire juror fees: $49.00

Reuben Lowder juror fees: $52.60

J. M. Jarvis juror fees: $50.00

I. H. Bonsall juror fees: $43.60

P. W. Smith juror fees: $37.60

W. V. McCormick juror fees: $4.80

I. D. Hon juror fees: $44.80

Theodore Moore juror fees: $52.60

D. C. Treadway juror fees: $51.20

R. L. Ward juror fees: $52.40

J. B. Harden juror fees: $28.00

Ed Millard juror fees: $52.80

H. H. Hooker juror fees: $50.40

Steph Greenwell juror fees: $47.20

Nathaniel Reed juror fees: $50.00

Henry Endicott juror fees: $49.60

H. R. Branson juror fees: $52.40

J. D. Lycan juror fees: $6.00

W. W. Sloan juror fees: $6.00

S. T. Snow juror fees: $6.00

C. M. Wood juror fees: $6.00

D. S. Fiske juror fees: $14.00

J. W. Connor juror fees: $14.00

D. A. Dale juror fees: $8.00

John R. Smith juror fees: $8.00

H. G. Page juror fees: $8.00

C. D. Austin juror fees: $8.00

W. S. Webb juror fees: $8.00

Daniel Hunt juror fees: $8.00

Wm. Mann juror fees: $8.00

L. M. Laws juror fees: $8.00

W. T. McLaughlin juror fees: $8.00

J. W. Browning, et al, judges and clerks of election: $344.00

J. B. Lynn, pauper claim: $15.85

B. McFadden, janitor service: $1.00

I certify the foregoing to be correct and true. M. G. TROUP, Auditor.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

JACK CLYDE. Will stand for the season of 1885 at my farm, one mile southof Floral. Took first premium at Cowley County fair in 1883 and 1884, also1^st premium for stallion showing best fine colts. N. L. YARBROUGH.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

I have ten pedigreed short horn bulls from eight to eighteen months old,at my farm two and a half miles southeast of Winfield, for sale cheap, andwill trade for other stock or for bankable notes. F. W. McCLELLAN.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

Our goods are all new, purchased for this Spring's trade after the verylatest decline in Woolen Goods in the East. Our prices will be found asLOW as same class of goods can be purchased for in any city. Our pricesare marked in plain figures on every article, and will be sold strictlyat market price. Our stock embraces every variety of Men's Wear known tothe trade.

You are respectfully invited to call and examine our goods.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

G. H. ALLEN. NOBLE CALDWELL.

The only exclusive Insurance Agency in town. Risks written in Fire, Lightning,Tornado, Life and Accidental Insurance with the best Companies. Farm riskswritten in the German, of Freeport, Illinois.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

In calling attention to our stock for this season we do so with moresatisfaction than ever before, for we are now better than ever ready tomeet the wants of all buyers of

There is ever going forward great improvements in the manufacture ofthese goods, so that now the nicest fitting, best made, from fashionablegoods can now be procured from us; and we are now able to offer you

every brought to this market. Our prices are low, our stock the largestin the county.

Our goods are good, and great bargains are being offered to buyers. Ourline of

is full, and all we ask is a call from you and we are sure we can suityou.

Next to P. O. The Mammoth Clothier.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

STRAYED. Monday night, March 9^th, from my place, four milesup the Walnut, four Indian ponies: one black, one bay, and two clay-banks.A liberal reward will be paid for information leading to their recovery.John Ireton, Winfield.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 19, 1885.

Skipped long ad re The Celebrated Bertrand, a generalpurpose trotting stallion by A. J. LYON & CO., Winfield, Kansas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Recap suit by Martha F. Worden, Plaintiff, against Linden O. Worden,Defendant, a non-resident of the State of Kansas, in District Court April23, 1885, for judgment rendered relative marriage and giving control ofLulu O. Worden, minor child to plaintiff. Hackney & Asp, Attorneys forPlaintiff.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Recap Administrator's Notice. Catherine Richardson, Administratrix ofthe Estate of Edward Richardson, deceased, Jennings & Troup, Attorneys,March 10, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The Grand Army of the Republic in Kansas expended last year $7,000 incharity.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The oldest son of the Prince of Wales has been made a Mason, his fatheracting as Worshipful Master on the occasion.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The "goose" which belonged to Andrew Jackson when he was atailor to Greenville, Tenn., is on exhibition at New Orleans.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The State Board of Pardons will meet at the Capitol March 31, at 3 o'clockp.m., for the first time, to transact business which properly comes undertheir jurisdiction.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

A school teacher in Jefferson County has been bounced for "kissingthe big girls." Like three card monte, this game is always catchingyoung men in spite of repeated warnings.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

An Illinois court has decided that a bucket shop is a gambling place,and anyone who loses money in one can recover it by an action at law. Thisdecision was rendered at Peoria.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Dr. Lawson Tait has discovered that the hearing of women is more acutethan that of men. Husbands attempting to go up stairs without making anynoise found that out long before Dr. Tait did. [Note: They had "Tait"and then "Tate."]

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Within the vaults of New York and vicinity there are now 34 dead bodies,awaiting the consuming fires of the projected crematory at Mt. Olivet, LongIsland, which will be in operation probably by May 1.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Readers of the Junction City Tribune have been having a hardtime of it for the past month or two. From two or three and one half columnsof editorial correspondence from New Orleans each week.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

George William Curtis says he wanted nothing at the hands of the newpresident and he got it, and a large proportion of the people all over thisbig country rejoice with him in his ambition gratified.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The English people are very much astonished that a man having presidedover the destinies of 57,000,000 people should at the expiration of histerm of office, quietly resume work at his desk. They say that it is possibleonly in the United States.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Reports from different sections of the state show that the wheat cropis badly damaged. As far as we have been able to learn, the crop in thiscounty has suffered, in many instances whole fields being entirely killed.It is probably safe to say that at least half of the crop is ruined.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The North Carolina Legislature has adopted a new State flag in whicha white bar and a red bar run horizontally, the red bar above the white.Near the staff the color is blue to the depth of one third of the flag.In the center of this blue portion is the coat of arms of the State in gold.Has Kansas a state flag?

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

It is reported that Sepoys are now employed in Egypt against the Arabs.The Indian troops employed are Sikhs, the bravest of the native races inIndia, and who made the most determined fight against the English in thatcountry. If Mohammedan troops can be trusted to fight their co-religionists,troops enough can be brought from India to eat up El Mahdi.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

According to the New York Evening Post, a single sentence inPresident Cleveland's inaugural is all that reminds us that the countryonce contained 4,000,000 slaves, and that it was once convulsed with themost tremendous conflict of modern times. Still there are quite a numberof one-legged, one-armed, and otherwise mutilated men in this country whodistinctly remember the conflict.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

A ROBUSTICUS ruffian, Gen. Rufino Barrios, has been for several yearsnominally President, but really despot, of Honduras. The principal defectin the Hondureno character being laziness, Gen. Barrios' exceptional energyhas been rather beneficial to his country. He has had the professional revolutionistsall shot, and has introduced other reforms. Gen. Barrios, however, seemsto have outgrown his clothing and desires to extend his rule over all theCentral American Republics. Honduras alone accepts. The others say theywill fight first. President Diaz, of the Republic of Mexico, has admonishedGen. Barrios to go slow.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

There is one sore Democrat, anyhow, and he does not hesitate to shootoff his mouth, as they say, in the much shooting state of Texas. He is CongressmanReagan. He doesn't like the cabinet, didn't like the inaugural address,saying "it was a great document for the Republicans," and he doesn'tadmire or think much of Cleveland, having said when speaking about the silvercoinage question: "President Cleveland admitted that he had never givenan hour's thought on the silver question." The letter signed by himwas written by someone for him. It contained so many egregious blundersthat the President will not be apt to express himself again until he hasgiven at least more than one hour's study to that important subject.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The press dispatches made it clear a few days ago just what General Grant'strouble is. And as the people know exactly what the good doctor means bythose technical terms we give the diagnosis in their language accordingto Sol. Miller.

"Grant's disease is Epithelioma. It is a disease of the fauces,and epithelioma malignancy and infiltration are as well understood as aresuppuration, pus-track and bullet cysts. The ulceration are limited to theright pillars of the fauces, the anterior one being perforated at its base,and is indurated. It contains three small rotary-like excrescences, whichshow a tendency towards celipoolifo ration. The epiglottis is free fromany abnormality. The pain in deglutition is entirely controlled, and thebodily temperature is normal. Nothing could be clearer. Any person who doesnot understand it, is a liar and a horse-thief."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Attorney-General Bradford, at the request of the executive department,has given his decision upon a matter of general interest in Kansas. Wherea vacancy of more than thirty days in the office of justice of the peaceexists next preceding a township election, and the governor has officialknowledge of the fact, it is his duty to fill the office by appointment.In such case the appointment holds good until the first regular election.When the vacancy occurs within less time than thirty days next precedingthe next regular election, the governor has power to fill by appointment,in which case the appointed officer would hold over until the next succeedingelection. That is, if he be appointed within thirty days of such regulartownship election in 1885, his appointment would hold good until the regulartownship election in 1886.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

To the Editor of the Commonwealth.

SIR: We have observed that you printed various articles about Oklahoma,the Cherokee lands, and the would-be squatters or "boomers" whohave been attempting lawlessly to settle thereon. Representing as we dothe Cherokee Nation, the owners of one of the tracts threatened, we desireto present to the public what we consider to be the true statement of amuch misrepresented question.

The term "Oklahoma" has no legal significance. It was originallyused in a bill to form the Indian Territory into a United States territory,which, like thousands of other bills, by nameless schemers, was introducedinto Congress the better to fill the political waste-paper basket. It hasbeen applied indiscriminately to portions of, and to all of the Indian Territory.Insofar as it has been used to mislead the public into the idea that thereare public lands in the Indian Territory open to settlement, it has notonly been an error, but the cover for a deception. There are no lands inthe Indian Territory that are, or that have been, in any sense public landsfor upwards of forty years. There are no lands in the Indian Territory whichare mere Indian reserves for the time being segregated from the public domain.Nearly every foot of land in that Territory was conveyed by the United States,by patent in fee simple, to certain partially civilized Indian Nations--theChoctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, Seminoles, and Cherokees. A small portionin the northeast corner was disposed of to the remnants of a few small tribes.

On the 28^th day of May, 1830, Congress passed an act settingapart the Indian Territory, not as a location for Indians living thereon,but the purpose is set forth in the first-section of the act, as follows:

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates in Congress assembled, That it shall and may be lawful for the Presidentof the United States to cause so much of any territory belonging to theUnited States west of the Mississippi, not included in any State or organizedterritory, and to which the Indian title has been extinguished, ashe may judge necessary to be divided into a suitable number of districtsfor the reception of such tribes or nations of Indians as may choose toexchange lands where they now reside and remove there.

Section two authorizes such lands to be sold or exchanged to such tribesas were located in States or territories where the United States had obligedthemselves to extinguish the "Indian title."

Section three makes it lawful for the President "solemnly to assurethe tribe or nation with which the exchange is made that the United Stateswill forever secure and guarantee to them and their heirs or successorsthe country so exchanged with them." It also authorizes patents tobe issued.

Section six makes it lawful for the President to protect such tribe ornation "against all interruption or disturbance from any other tribeor nation of Indians, or from any other person or persons whatever."

Under this act, and many treaties made in pursuance of it, the IndianTerritory so styled, was created. It was not a territory of the United States,but a territory where Indians could obtain a title to their lands, and wheregovernments of the Indian people, not inconsistent with the Constitutionof the United States, could be framed. The policy originated with some ofthe founders of the American Republic, and much effort, law, and treatywere directed to it during the first half of the present century. The chiefobject was to secure the removal of the powerful half civilized tribes ornations living in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, andNorth Carolina, and to get possession of the lands occupied there. The chiefargument used was that the Indians would thus by exchange and purchase geta fee simple title from the United States which could not be disturbed,and would be able to build up governments of their own on the same modelas State or Territorial government. Nearly all of the leading nations, nowoccupying the Indian Territory, had formed constitutional governments inthe old States, before that time. To induce them to dispose of their homesthere, the most sacred guarantees were given them. The treaty of May 6,1828, says: "A permanent home, and which shall, under the most solemnguarantees of the United States, be and remain theirs forever."

The treaty of February 14, 1833, under which the district and supremecourts have affirmed it to be a fee simple title, says in article 1: "TheUnited States agree to possess the Cherokees and to guarantee it to themforever, and that guarantee is hereby pledged." Then follows the descriptionof the land and consideration. Under this agreement title to these landspassed from the United States and patent was issued. The Cherokee Nationowns its lands just by the same title that every citizen of the United Statesholds title, and, in addition the solemn pledge and guarantee of the Government.

On what pretext shall boomers or any one else claim any right to squaton such property? Is there to be a general confiscation of titles in theUnited States? Has an Indian no rights a white man is bound to respect?Are the solemn pledges of the United States government to be shamelesslyviolated? Can the United States give any title to any one else until theybuy back the property? On what pretext are we to be forced to sell it forless than its worth in a fair market? What right have these squatters, whoset law and the President's proclamation at defiance, to profit by the enhancedvalue of our property? These are the questions we ask of the honest fairminded and honorable people of these United States.

But it may be said, a portion of them have been ceded. The Cherokeesceded and sold chiefly under appraisem*nt the Neutral Lands and narrow stripin Kansas. These were sold and conveyed under the terms of Treaty agreement,and are owned by whites who bought them. No portion of Cherokee Lands inthe Indian Territory was ever ceded. An examination of the Treaty of 1866plainly shows that. In the 16^th article of the Treaty of 1866the Cherokee Nation consented that certain friendly Indians might be locatedon a portion of their lands west of 90 dg., to be taken in compact form,the price to be agreed on between the contracting parties. The only wayto get a clear title to any portion of them was by a patent from the owner,the Cherokee Nation. An equitable title might have been claimed by closelyfollowing the express language of the treaty, but a title obtained in thatway would have been involved in legal obscurities. The Government placedseveral Indian tribes on our Lands, but in no case followed the treaty.They endeavored to appraise the whole arbitrarily, but that act had no legalbinding force on the Cherokees, and the United States did not even thenpay for the land thus appraised. By acts of Congress certain sums were arbitrarilypaid, and an additional amount was finally offered for these occupied tracts,the only tracts the Government had any right to purchase or the Cherokeeswould give title. To bring to a close these matters with an unreasonablepurchaser, the Cherokee Legislature passed a law authorizing the new compactproposed by Congress for the five small tracts, and the Cherokee authoritiesissued and the Government accepted the patents as the law directed, andthe money was paid for them. These tracts occupied and thus sold to theOsages, Pawnees, Nez Perces, Poncas, Otoes, and Missourians are the onlyportions sold or occupied, and there is no other way under an authorityof any law or treaty to get another acre but by offering the Cherokee Nationan amount sufficient to induce it to grant patent. Congress can do a goodmany things, but it cannot pass laws to confiscate property. The Creek andSeminole lands were held by patent like the others. In 1866, in the treatiesthey then made with the United States, they ceded the western portion oftheir lands for a specified purpose: the "settlement of friendly Indiansand freedmen" who had been by birth or location before the war residentsor slaves in the Territory. A small price was paid for this conditionedcession, less than one-third of what the lands were then worth. A portionof the lands then ceded were and are occupied by friendly Indians. A smallportion has not been allotted. It is still by law and fact reserved forIndian purposes. The Creeks purchased it with that understanding. The Governmentdoes not own it for general purposes and cannot so convey the lands.

Besides this small unoccupied portion is near the center of the IndianTerritory. It is subject to the Indian Intercourse law, which requires theexpulsion and punishment of white intruders. There is no government thereunder which white men could live. It has not been lawfully opened, nor canit be lawfully opened without great changes as to law and government andpurchase.

Above all Congress has just passed a law to open negotiations with theowners, the Creeks and Seminoles, for a total relinquishment of the tractsconditionally ceded, and with the Cherokees for the purpose of inducingthem to sell their unoccupied lands west of the Arkansas river that havenever been ceded.

It will be observed that so far as the Cherokees at least are concerned,they are under no obligation to sell them, and certainly not for less thantheir value. The Cherokee Nation has been offered for grazing purposes anamount very considerable above a dollar and a quarter per acre. The unoccupiedlands are at present all grazed and maintain nearly four hundred thousandhead of cattle. There is no more useful or valuable interests in the UnitedStates. The people of this country need beef and mutton as well as bread.The grazing lands of the United States are being rapidly destroyed by ashiftless, inappropriate system. It is well enough to cut up agriculturallands into small holdings, but to let a few squatters take up the waterand timber fronts, leaving the great bulk of grazing land cut off is todestroy the value of such a country. Even on the public domain these lands,which are chiefly suitable for pasturage, ought to be leased to grazers.An enlightened policy will ultimately adopt such a course, until a changein the climate and other conditions of these lands render it possible toadapt them to agriculture.

What is it, then, that these squatters demand? It is to permit them topick valuable water fronts and timber from our property, so they can sellthem to a class of holders for a high price these locations which wouldcommand other lands that cannot be cultivated, as free grazing lands costingthem nothing. It is a nefarious scheme if applied to our property. But thatis not the worst of it. The real animus and bottom of the scheme originatedwas certain railroad companies who are now plotting to secure land grantsin that country to the extent of ten or twenty millions of acres. For years,these corporations, through their agents at Washington, worked for a Territorialform of Government in order to destroy the Indian governments, thinkingthat if this was done they could secure their grants. Several railroad companieshad bills passed during the war giving them enormous grants across the continent,fifty miles wide. They got the public domain where the road was constructed,and they had a clause slipped in the bills to give them the alternate sectionin any reserve where "the Indian title was extinguished." As willbe observed, these lands are not held by "Indian title;" a termknown to the law. They are held by United States title, but the corporationsseem to hope to get possession of them nevertheless. They, through theiragents, are carrying these "boomers" for cheap rates and for nothing,and parties are "grubstaking" them. These corporations are thusconniving at gross violations of the law. They are trying to humbug, driveand coax poor settlers on these lands to force a sale, and thus secure thehalf of the country for themselves.

Any honest settler can find plenty of public lands belonging to the UnitedStates to settle on without trying to steal land the Government has alreadysold. If such lawless raids are to be encouraged, they will bring on a conditionof things where no man or interests will be secure in property. There isnot a Government military reservation or park that could not thus be squattedon by a far better plea, for the latter are public property.

To these facts we wish to call the attention of the people of the UnitedStates. A great many well meaning people have doubtless been deceived intothinking this a case of hardship for poor settlers. The leaders and mostof the "boomers" are old squatters by trade, dealers in inchoatetitles, land speculators as well as law breakers. We will not believe thatthe masses of the people of these United States are dishonest, unfair, orinsensible to what is due the honor of their own country or the rights ofa people who have never wronged them. We appeal to the American sense offair play. Respectfully,

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Mr. Cook said he had met "Bright Eyes," beyond the Missouri,who was there as the evening star, but a year later she appeared in theEast as a morning star. Longfellow called her "Minnehaha," whenhe met her, and President Hayes told her he agreed with her Indian policy.Great things had been accomplished since then with the Indians. Gen. Crookhad reformed the Apaches. He had taught them agriculture, and they werenot only supporting themselves but raising something to sell to the tradingposts. The speaker thought this an important fact, because if the Apaches,with their war-like history, could be civilized and set to raising wheat,barley, watermelons, etc., then any other tribe can be civilized. Gen. Crook,he said, was no dreamer, but a hard Indian fighter. He had gone to workin a practical manner and had cured the Apaches of their vagabondage, andthus showed that all other tribes could be cured in the same way. He saidthe fact was, there is no frontier any more. Holding up a large map beforethe audience, with Indian reserves marked, he said that the billows of civilizationwere rolling all around the Indian reservations. A general had told himon the Rocky Mountains that Christian homes would soon be so thick in allthat region that the gamblers and robbers would be driven into the citiesof the East. The Indians continue to increase. There are 300,000 outsideof Alaska, and half of these wear citizens' dress. They are all well armed.Gen. Crook does not advise disarming them. They were generally desirousof education and many of them had adopted civilized modes of life. Therewas a tribe of white savages in the mining regions of the West--a scum whichcivilization carries with it. This was composed of unmarried men from allparts of the world. Nowhere else had he seen such shameless vice as in someof the mining districts of the West, and it was with these, chiefly, thatthe Indians came in contact. There were many noble exceptions. He had beenin the cabins of the missionaries in the far West, where the babe was cradledin a clothes basket, and who were pinched and starved by the miserable parsimonyof the churches, while carrying civilization to the frontier. Father andmother and child could only found a true colony. The fringe of scum wasfollowed by a clear wave of Christian homes. Mr. Cook took occasion to severelyrebuke the House of Representatives for refusing to make the necessary appropriationsin the interest of Indian education. Indian right's associations were beingformed in many places and were doing much good. They demand the breakingup of tribal organizations among Indians, and giving them citizenship andthe ballot as the only solution of the Indian problem. Some of these associationswere building homes in the West for Indians educated in the East, to preventthem returning to savage life. The cost of these homes were to be paid backby the Indians.

The speaker asked what measures should be taken for the civilizationand Christianization of Indians, and suggested first that General Crook'spolicy be followed. He had tried it on no small scale, but in Arizona--aregion as large as all New England. Get the Indians to making their ownliving and earn some money to put in their pockets. If they could only hearthe jingle of money in their pockets, they would follow that sound intothe promised land. They must be cured of vagabondage, their tribal relationsbroken up, and their lands deeded to them in severalty. Evangelists mustbe sent among them. He alluded in this connection to the great work thePresbyterians are doing in Alaska through their missionary, Sheldon Jackson.Presbyterians own Alaska, he said. Give Christianity to a few, and theywould be a pillar of fire to lead the others on to better things. Educate.Agitate. Pass the co*ke bill, which had already passed the Senate, but washanging in the House. The white savages of the West, he said, maintainedstrong lobbies at Washington to fight all legislation in the interest ofthe red savages. Give the Indians the right to sue in United States courts.Extend the marriage law among them. Raise the salaries of Indian agentsand send a better class of men. "We cannot allow the red savages tobe preyed upon by the white savages of the frontier."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Student life in Germany is no longer what it was. In small towns thestudents are still more or less lords of the situation; but in Berlin, whichhas now the greatest number of students, they disappear among the multitude,and the select brotherhoods and corps have no longer their claimed pre-eminence.Many people have become prosaic enough as to regard duels as a crime ratherthan an honor, and the combatants are liable to arrest, though, to judgeby the seamed, scarred, and disfigured physiognomies to be seen in the streets,the favorite custom of sword-fencing is by no means extinct among the risinggeneration in Germany.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

A very brilliant light is obtained in China from candles--only of lateyears imported into Europe--made of wax supplied by insects especially rearedthrough Chinese ingenuity.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

There is not a chimney nor a cooking stove in Havana; not a carpetedroom nor a feather pillow.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

President Cleveland has prohibited smokers in the White House, and office-seekersfrom hanging around the doors of his office.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Susan B. Anthony and Anna E. Dickinson have come into the possession,each, of the sum of $25,000, bequeathed to them some time since by a wealthygentleman of Boston.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

It is to be hoped that Gen. Grant does not see the telegraphic reportsrespecting his condition. The dispatch of the 20^th inst., givingthe four ways in which the General might die, was especially horrible.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

A man will work fourteen hours a day for $6 a week in running a countrypaper of his own without grumbling; but if he was paid $1.50 a day for eighthours' work at any other employment, he would strike for more wages.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Fifty men are put to work on the grade of the Newton extension of theSunflower road from El Dorado and before a week 500 graders will be at work.The new road will be built to Newton and in operation by July 1.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

General Hatch telegraphed the War Department on the 21^st inst.that about 500 Oklahoma boomers were congregated at Coffeyville, Kansas,on the southern border line, with the intention of moving into the Territory.He sent a force to intercept them.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Kansas has waked them up again at the New Orleans Exposition. Capt. White,of Sabetha, with nine head of short horns, took $770 out of $1,000 in premiumsoffered in the classes in which he exhibited. A Kansas herd of Polled Anguscattle took the first premium in that class.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The map of the Indian Territory, gotten up by the State Journal,is now ready for delivery. It shows "Oklahoma," and otherpoints of the Territory. On the reverse side is a map, originally publishedin the Chicago Express, showing the land granted by Governmentto railroad companies. It is sold at 50 cents.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

A Coffeyville dispatch of the 21^st says: "The boomersare gathering from various points at Coffeyville, and leaving in squadsas fast as they arrive, for Oklahoma. A number of teams arrived today andwill probably leave on Monday. The Coffeyville colony has a number of detachmentsnow in Oklahoma, and more on the road, the president's proclamation notwithstanding."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

A Little Rock man sold his cooking stove to get money enough to takehis family to the circus. When one of his friends remonstrated with him,he said: "We had no use for the stove. Had nothing to cook." "Butwhy didn't you buy something to eat with the money you got for the stove?"Then we should have had nothing to cook it on. Don't talk to me: I'ma philosopher."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Kansas City Journal: Governor John A. Martin, of Kansas, carriesoff all the diplomatic honors of the late strike, while Governor John S.Marmaduke of Missouri is entitled to all the military honors. The latterordered out the militia promptly and unnecessarily, while the former undertookto negotiate between the employees and employers which has resulted in anadjustment that ended the strike.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The saloon interests in Iowa received a blow between the eyes in thedecision of the supreme court maintaining the constitutionality of the prohibitionlaw as it stands. The question came up on application for an injunctionto abate a saloon as a nuisance. The writ was issued and appeal was takento the supreme court. The court holds that as the legislature and the constitutionalpower to enact the law, and as the law defines a saloon as a nuisance, therecan be no denial of the right of action.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The part borne by the Kansas railroad commissioners in the arrangementswhich terminated the recent strike, will, we think, strengthen with thepeople the law establishing the board and suggest further legislation. Thelaw might be so amended as to provide that the railroad commissioners shallact as referees in cases of difference between employers and employees soserious as to effect the public. Anything that would avert strikes wouldbe welcomed by both parties.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

A Negro lawyer was admitted to practice in the supreme court of Georgiarecently. The world has moved since the time--twenty-four years ago--whenan eminent Georgian--then recently elected vice president of the confederacy,declared that the new constitution under which that government was framedhad settled forever "the proper status of the Negro in our form ofcivilization," and that "slavery subordination to the superiorrace is his natural and normal condition."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

David Dickson, of Georgia, the richest planter in the South next to Richardson,of Mississippi, recently died, leaving an estate of $500,000. He had nochildren, but a large number of relatives, excellent people, who expectedto be handsomely remembered. His will just probated, reveals the fact thathe has just cut off his kindred with small sums, and bequeathed fully $400,000in property to Amanda Eubanks, a negress, making her the richest negressin the world.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

All the members of Cleveland's cabinet are wealthy men, except Lamarand Garland, who depend upon their official salaries for a living. Whitneyand Manning are millionaires, and Bayard, Vilas, and Endicott are well off.Bayard, Lamar, and Garland are widowers, and Manning was also a widoweruntil recently. As to their nativities, Bayard was born in Delaware, Manningin New York, Endicott and Whitney in Massachusetts, Vilas in Vermont, Lamarin Georgia, and Garland in Tennessee.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

One of the new laws provides that the board of county commissioners ofany county shall not levy upon the taxable property of such county a taxfor current expenses of said county for any one year, in excess of the followingaccounts: Upon a valuation of $5,000,000 and under, 1 percent; over $5,000,000and under $6,000,000 8½ mills; over $6,000,000 and under $7,000,0007½ mills; over $7,000,000 and under $8,000,000, 6½ mills;over $8,000,000 and under $9,000,000 5¾ mills; over $9,000,000, 1½per cent. Provided, That the electors of the county, by a direct vote, mayorder an increase in such levies.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The New York Morning Journal, speaking of Gen. Grant's illnessunder the head of "Our Head," says: "The nation watches inanxiety by the pillow of Gen. Grant. He has gathered his loved ones aroundhim. He faces the grim destroyer with the same calm courage that carriedhim through the terrible days of the Wilderness. He had behind him thenthe fevered hopes and passionate trust of millions. It must be his consolationnow that love and gratitude have taken the place of the intense emotionshe stirred in the perilous days of the war. We bless his genius for thegreat Union that stands at the head of civilization today."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

A rumor was current in Arkansas City on the 21^st that theCoffeyville boomers had passed through the Sac and Fox agencies the 16^thinstant en route to Oklahoma, and had arrived safely and were building houses,plowing and making other permanent improvements on Cottonwood creek, 100miles south of Arkansas City.

The rumor gained headway rapidly and was sent to several papers by theiragents, and caused much excitement in the colonists' camp. The rumor isentirely without foundation, and was doubtless gotten up to cause uneasiness.

A visitor to Maj. Benton's headquarters on Chilocco creek, six milessouth of Arkansas City, elicited the following facts.

"No advices have been received there of any invasion from any direction.The Sac and Fox agency would be thirty miles off the route. Two companiesof the Twenty-second infantry, under Capt. Clark, are at Ponca, near theroute. Another of the companies of cavalry (colored) and one of infantryunder Maj. DeWees, are at Camp Russell, on the Cimarron, township 17 north,of range 2 west, directly on the route, and within ten miles of where thealleged improvements were being made.

"Soldiers and Indian scouts are patrolling the country between thesepoints, and it would be impossible for any large body of men or teams topass through unnoticed. Had they been noticed, they would have been turnedback and the fact reported at Chilocco, then to Gen. Hatch.

"Maj. Benton does not doubt but what there are a few boomers inOklahoma, but says they will be ejected as soon as convenient. Should Couchand his colony start, they would be allowed to advance no further than Chiloccocreek, where the major says they would be stopped, as his orders would notpermit him to allow them to pass.

"He has seven companies of the Ninth cavalry (colored), 300 men,and believes he could stop all that would come.

"Capt. Couch is waiting patiently to see what the President willdo, and told his men that they must wait a reasonable time, that their representativesat Washington were making good progress, and he did not want to embarrassthem.

"Many of the boomers attended church, last Sunday, and quiet reins."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The Southwest Kansas Methodist Episcopal conference met in the operahouse at El Dorado last Thursday, Bishop Ninote in the chair. M. L. Gates,of McPherson, was chosen secretary and A. T. George, of Lyons, and W. H.Rose, of Caldwell, assistant. Dr. Cranston, of Cincinnati, and Dr. Ery,of St. Louis, addressed the conference at length in the interest of theMethodist Book concern and religious publications. The presiding elder ofthe Wichita district reported his work and the character of the respectiveelders of his district, which was passed.

In the afternoon N. S. Buckner, of Arkansas City, presided. The treasurersof the various conference societies collected the benevolent funds. Thebishop and his cabinet of elders were in session during the afternoon, makingarrangements for the stationing of ministers for the conference. The Woman'sForeign Missionary society held a session in the afternoon.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The Garden City Sentinel offers the following sensible adviceto the deluded followers of Couch, now on the line of the Indian Territory,which they would do well to heed.

"If the Oklahoma boomers, instead of wasting their time and energiesin fruitless attempts to force the opening of these lands to settlementin opposition to law and violation of the pledges of the Nation, would onlycome to Western Kansas, they could find thousands of acres of as fine farminglands as the sun shines upon, all to be had for the mere asking, with aGovernment, and people ready to welcome them. It is true upon our broadacres you will find no dense forests upon which to waste your strength inoperating a farm, from which you will be ready to emigrate by the time yourfarm is ready; but here you can find a farm ready made to your hand, whereyou can enjoy the fruit of your labors from the start. Then do not longerspend your time in such foolish attempts, but head your column for the west,and instead of swords and muskets bring plows and hoes with you.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The Quebec train due at St. John, N. B., March 19^th at 7:30a.m. had not arrived at 7 p.m. The situation on the New Brunswick railroadis even worse. The train from Bangor due at St. John that morning stuckin a snow drift two miles from that city at 8 a.m., making it impossiblefor trains to leave for Bangor, Fredericktown, and elsewhere. The stormwas general throughout the province. Nearly two feet of snow has fallen.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The Supreme Court of Iowa, through Judge Rothrock, all the bench concurring,rendered an opinion, affirming the constitutionality of the prohibitionlaw. The opinion is sweeping, conclusive, and complete. It sustains thevalidity of the injunctions to abate nuisances as saloons, and in everyparticular maintains the provisions of the act as it stands today on thestatute book of the State.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The secretary of the treasury has issued warrant for $332,308 in favorof the governor of Kansas for expenses incurred by that state in repellingIndian invasions.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The intelligence that the Coffeyville colonists had crossed the lineand entered the Territory occasioned considerable excitement at ArkansasCity last Saturday. While the troops were engaged in keeping out the Couchboomers encamped there, they were going in at other points in small parties;and if the movement continues, it will be necessary for the troops to marchagain to Oklahoma and remove them. Freighters report a number of them alreadysettled along the Canadian river in tents and dugouts. Captain DeWees withfour companies will reach that vicinity this week, and turn back the partythat entered from Arkansas and Texas. Gen. Hatch is at Arkansas City, andif he finds it necessary to send forward the troops stationed near there,they will be replaced by six companies from Fort Leavenworth. It is consideredlikely that if the Coffeyville colonists are not removed by the troops withinforty-eight hours, that there will be a movement of the Couch men assembled.A meeting was held at Arkansas City Saturday, attended by 800 to 1,000 persons.Many of the colonists propose to settle down for the present in camp andawait further developments, perhaps remain all summer. In that case, thetroops will go into permanent camp, probably on the Chilocco.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

James Gordon Bennett deposits in the Chemical bank, where his fatheropened an account forty years ago. The latter had at first so little confidencein such institutions that in the early days of the Herald he placedhis funds in the hands of a paper dealing firm. They supplied him with paperduring his poverty and he deposited his earnings in their hands. This firm(Persse & Brooks) was well acquainted with Bennett's early strugglesand every day after the morning's business was over, he would come in witha bag of coppers and small coins taken in at the Herald's counter.He checked his deposit and was often overdrawn, but his drafts were honoredand Persse & Brooks had their reward in his undivided patronage untilthey discontinued business. They owned the only complete file of the Herald(except Bennett's) and were it now in existence it would be worth $10,000.Unfortunately, however, it was destroyed by fire.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

A New Orleans minister recently married a couple, and at the conclusionuneasily remarked: "On such an occasion as this, it is customary tokiss the bride; but in this case, we will omit it." The indignant bridegroomvery pertinently remarked: On such occasions as dis it am customary to gibde minister $10, but in dis case we will omit it."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Col. George Williams, ex-member of the Ohio Legislature, says: "WhenBruce was in the Senate, Bayard would never refer to him as the Senatorfrom Mississippi, and he studiously avoided meeting and bowing to him. Ifhe saw he must pass Bruce in going across the chamber, he would turn asidewith a haughty look and go into one of the cloak rooms until the latterhad passed; and if he had to give the Senate a mention of Bruce, he wouldrefer to him impersonally, saying, 'It has been said on this floor,' or'a member has stated so and so,' but he never would accord to Bruce hisrecognition as a gentleman and a Senator. Lamar, on the other hand, spokeof Bruce in high terms, and moved his confirmation to his present place."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

It is rather remarkable, but it is true, that Jay Gould does not employan amanuensis. He writes all his own letters. The word "all" doesnot signify "many," for Gould replies to very few letters, andthe communications he does write are brief.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Kansas has had another windfall. The Secretary of the Treasury has issueda warrant for $332,308 in favor of Kansas for expenses incurred by the Statein repelling Indian invasions.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Congressman-Elect J. D. Richardson, of Tennessee, will be the tallestmember of the next House. He stands nearly seven feet high in his stockings.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Joaquin Miller is said to make money like a genius and spends it likea fool.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

This country continues to develop itself according to the true theoryof evolution; yet to those of us who have been accustomed to the "blizzards"of the East and North, and also of Texas, indeed, this country appears likean Eden, or "Paradise regained." The winter has passed and weare in the middle, or nearly so, of the first spring month--so far as temperatureis concerned.

"December was pleasant as May." To be sure we had, during thatmonth, reported rains without wind--or storms--or thunder or lightning.March came in like a lamb and bids fare to go out as gentle as a sheep,robed in green and decked with roses. The truth is I can only determinethe season by reference to the Almanac, for I should not know that we havepassed through a long winter, but for the calendar. This is a wonderfulcountry for natural productions. We have here almost everything that otherpeople have in other parts of the world: except blizzard and thunder. Wehave an occasional shake-up by a young earthquake--just enough to remindsinners that they are still in pretty close proximity to the hell country,spoken of in the fables of yore. But these earthquakes, like the theologythey were used to enforce--are growing more and more feeble and will continueto do so, most likely, till the smouldering fires within the earth's crustbecome extinct. And we occasionally have a "shooting star," asthe second Adventists call it--to remind us of the "speedy end of allthings." How kind nature is to take such an interest in our theologicalmatters. But alas! What does it amount to? Before the "fallen star"gets cold, or the earth ceases to quiver, sinners laugh, shrug their shoulders,and say, "try it again."

The following I clip from one of our city papers.

"The fiery meteor that fell just east of our city Thursday night,lighting up the country for miles around, came with the noise of many thunders,and our citizens were startled with the dread thought that it was the crackof doom. Yesterday a party of our citizens who are scientifically inclinedwent out to search for the heavenly visitor, accompanied by the geologistof the Chronicle staff. In the party were C. R. Woods, O. Harsbarger,Steve Magee, E. B. Johnson, George Newell, Jack Terrill, Herman Greenland,E. E. Canfield, Joe Sproul, H. C. Mansfield, and Bert Mason. They strucka bee-line for the foothills, nearly due east of town, and came to a haltat a farmhouse six miles from here. The party at once scattered and instituteda search. They walked over rocks, through canyons, and examined the bedof a creek for signs of the stone from the clouds. Woods and Mansfield wereabsent from the searchers nearly an hour, when they were finally seen runningtoward the wagon, waving their hands and yelling. They came up almost breathless,but managed to tell that the object of their tramp had been found. A rushwas then made by the explorers to the spot that had been designated, nearlya mile away and a little higher up on the foothills. Arriving there, theywere certainly well rewarded for their pains. The "aerolite" waslying alongside a pile of rocks, and in appearance somewhat resembled apyramid. In length it was a few inches over thirty feet, and in diameterover two feet. Its weight is placed at several tons. In color it has theappearance of slate while standing a few feet from it, but upon closer examinationit looks like copper. The monster was struck several heavy blows with asledge hammer, but no impression could be made upon it. A cold chisel wasthen used upon it, but not a scratch could be made. In falling, the burningstone had struck upon a lava formation, otherwise it would have gone farinto the bosom of old mother earth. As it struck the rock, it glanced offinto the ground and burned a gutter nearly two feet in depth for a distanceof two hundred feet. It was about the only topic of conversation upon thestreets and a large crowd went out to look at the wonder, and an instrumentwas taken along for the purpose of photographing. On the night above mentioned,Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Anderson, while returning home from a visit to neighbors,noticed a very bright meteor in the northeast. It was so rapid in its movementsas to lead them to believe that it had fallen in that vicinity, though theyheard no noise accompanying its progress. They located its fall a few milesout of town. In all probability it was the same meteor which fell at Chico.The "Falling Star" was also noticed by many people in Santa Cruzon the night mentioned, nearly a week ago."

But I must tell you of some more pleasant things to think of earthquakes,etc. All winter long we have had in our out-door markets potatoes, turnipsjust from the fields, beets, carrots, cabbage, celery, grapes, oranges,lemons, etc., and today we had new potatoes, some of them as large as aturkey's egg, nice, sweet, and mealy. They were not grown in a hot houseor in the south, but right here in the bosom of old mother earth. They tastea little of silver, to be sure, still they are only five cents a pound.Then the roses and other flowers! Don't talk! The streets in places arejust perfumed with these fragrant blossoms: roses, mignonettes, heliotropes,violets, lily flowers, and many others. It is delightful, the grass in theparks and along the streets is knee high. We now begin to need rain again,which the weather-wise say will be forthcoming soon. But people get sickand die in this country as elsewhere. Yesterday I was called to preach thefuneral sermon of one of our leading citizens, a free thinker like myself.My own health is better. I am getting a nice practice. I often think ofmy dear old friends and patrons of Cowley County, and the arrival of theCOURIER is as welcome as a message of friendship. Send it on and obligeyour old friend.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The Kingman Leader publishes a map of Kansas, showing the D.,M. & A. R. R. The road shows up well and runs through the finest andmost productive country in the world. It comes into the state from the east,near the southeast corner, running through the southern part of CherokeeCounty, then on west through the counties of Labette, Montgomery, Chautauqua,and Cowley; then west into Sumner, where it crosses the Arkansas river.From here the road will run almost direct to Kingman, Kingman County, thenup a northwesterly direction to Stafford, then to St. John, the county seatof Stafford County, and on through Larned and Pawnee County, thence westinto Colorado and up to Denver. There is no doubt but this road will beahead of the other roads in Kansas, so far as paying is concerned, takingin, as it does, the finest wheat and corn country on the globe, and alsorunning through inexhaustible coal beds. The people along the route arewatching the movements of the D., M. & A. with all the interest imaginable,and the Sun predicts that before the leaves fall, the cars willbe running through St. John. St. John Sun.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The fourth biennial report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture forthe years 1883 and 1884 has just been issued and delivered to the public.It is a volume of 713 pages, and embraces many topics of interest concerningpopulation, wealth, agriculture, manufactures, mineral resources, churches,schools, etc., that will be of value both to the citizens of Kansas andthose persons in the East that intend to become residents. A bird's-eyeview of the State Agricultural College and experimental farm in Manhattanis the appropriate subject for the frontispiece, and is an artistic pieceof engraving and tint work.

The secretary, in his introduction to the volume, speaking of the progressin wealth and agriculture during the last biennial period, says:

"The population increased during the two years 172,665. By referenceto the diagram of centers of population, on page 458 of this volume, itwill be observed that the great proportion of this increase was in the easternhalf of the State, the point of equal population moving eastward duringfour years about thirty miles. * * * * During the biennial period just passednearly 2,000,000 additional acres have been put in cultivation. The principalfield (crops, corn, wheat, oats, and grass), have received each a proportionateamount of this increase in acreage, the most notable addition being to thewinter wheat area, which increased from 1,465,745 acres in 1882, to 2,151,868acres in 1884. * * * * * The area of grass, made up of the tame grassesand prairie meadow under fence, increased in the two years nearly 1,000,000acres. The westward march of the tame grasses may be said to have commencedwithin the period covered by this volume. Fields of timothy, clover, orchardgrass, blue-grass, and many other kinds, are now to be found in the centralcounties, and even beyond, where such fields were rarely met with two yearsago. Experience as to the kinds best adapted to the various portions ofthe State are being prosecuted with vigor and intelligence, and the questionmay reach solution within a very few seasons.

"The results of farming operations in Kansas for the past two years,as will be learned by consulting the pages of this report, have definitelysettled any doubt as to the entire fitness of the eastern half of the Stateto the successful prosecution of agriculture in all its branches. The debatableground of ten years ago is now producing crops that have placed Kansas amongthe first three great agricultural States of the Union, and the soil thatten years ago was believed to the satisfaction of many to be unfit for diversifiedfarming is now producing average yields that largely exceed the yields ofany other portion of this country.

"The numbers of the various kinds of livestock have increased largelyduring the biennial period, the interest keeping abreast with the advancementmade in agriculture. The adaptability of Kansas to the successful prosecutionof stock raising has been amply demonstrated, and the many millions of dollarsembarked in the business in this State indicates the faith of our peoplein the safety and profitableness of the investment. The percent of mortalityfrom diseases for both years was slight, and compares favorably with othersections of the country."

After stating the contents of the volume, the secretary then acknowledgeshis obligations to government, state, and county officers, legal and volunteercorrespondents, and to a large number of citizens, for their valuable aidin securing the information contained in the report.

Pages 9 to 454, inclusive, are devoted to "Population, Production,Industries, Resources," etc., of the ninety-five counties of the State.Each county is treated separately in alphabetical order, a sectional mapin colors accompanying each county sketch. These maps are corrected to December31, 1884, and show municipal, township boundaries, location of schoolhousesand postoffices, streams, and railway lines. For the first time since sectionalcounty maps have become a feature of the biennial reports, the railroadlines are correctly located, the engineer of each road furnishing the correctlocation for the map. The points treated of in each county are: GeographicalLocation; Area; Population to the Square Mile, both as to the whole numberof inhabitants and rural population; the Rank of the County in Population;the Name of the County Seat and its Location in the County; the LeadingCities, with their Populations and their Rank among the Cities of the Statehaving more than 1,000 People; the Population of each Township and Cityfor 1883 and 1884; the Railway System, giving Number of Miles of Main Trackin Operation; Surface Features; Proportion of Native Timber; Per Cent ofBottom Lands; Names of Streams, their Location and Direction; Manufactories,with Capital Employed, Value of Annual Product, Average Number of HandsEmployed and Wages Paid; Mineral Resources, such as Coal, Ore, BuildingStone, etc.; Banks; Assessed Valuation by Townships and Cities; Postoffices,Alphabetically Arranged; Names and Postoffice Addresses of County Officers;Agricultural Statistics for 1883 and 1884, Giving Area of Each Crop, withProduct and Value; Rank of County in the Area of Wheat, Corn, and TotalCultivated Acreage, and in the Numbers of the Various Kinds of Farm Animalsfor 1883 and 1884, the Number of Livestock for Both Years, with Increaseand Decrease; Statistics Relating to Horticulture, Apiculture, etc.; Churches,Schools; Vacant Public Lands, and a List of Newspapers, with Names of Editors,Proprietors and Publishers.

Following the matter relating to counties is a sketch of the progressand development of the State since its organization, in population, wealth,and agriculture, illustrated with colored diagrams. This is a very interestingand instructive chapter of twenty-six pages, containing sixteen coloreddiagrams, accompanied by explanatory letter press. While diagrams have beenused in previous reports of the board in illustrating the growth of wealthand agriculture, there has never been so complete a treatment of the subjectas is found in this portion of the volume. The wonderful story of Kansas,its rapid strides towards prominence among the States, is better told inthese object lessons, occupying a few pages, than if hundreds of pages werecovered with statistical tables and letter press. This department of thereport will be highly prized by the citizens of Kansas, and by all thosepersons seeking for information as to the resources and capabilities ofthe State.

A brief synopsis of the journal of the proceedings of the board at itsannual and special meetings occupies the next twelve pages, the principalfeature of this portion of the volume being the constitution and by-lawsof the board, as amended at recent meetings.

Following the Journal, the State is treated after the plan of the countysketches, giving geographical location, population, railroad systems, surfacefeatures, water system, mineral resources, agricultural, livestock and miscellaneousstatistics, and a synopsis of the laws relating to the requirement of governmentand school lands, with statements concerning the number of acres of government,school and railroad lands still vacant, and subject to entry and sale.

Full statistics by counties, concerning population, agriculture, livestock,horticulture, and miscellaneous subjects cover the following sixty-six pages,being the compilation of the returns of township and city assessors forthe years 1883 and 1884.

Four of the officers of the board, by appointment, made reports for thisvolume: Prof. O. St. John, the geologist, furnishing a paper on artesianwells, a subject much agitated in Kansas at present; Prof. F. H. Snow, entomologist,an illustrated paper on "Insects Injurious to Wheat," remarksand observations concerning the Hessian fly occupying the most prominentplace in the paper; Prof. J. T. Lovewell, meteorologist, on the "Meteorologyof Kansas," being a record of rainfall and barometer readings for thepast two years at various stations in the State; and Hon. E. B. Cowgill,Sorghum Commissioner, on "The Sorghum Industry of Kansas in 1884."This paper is founded upon recent investigations as to the manufacture ofsugar from the Northern cane, and at this time is of peculiar interest toKansas farmers.

Following the reports of officers by appointment are papers from Dr.A. A. Holcombe, the State Veterinary Surgeon; Hon. W. S. Gile, State FishCommissioner; Hon. F. P. Baker, Special Agent Division of Forestry, UnitedStates Department of Agriculture, and Prof. E. M. Shelton, Professor ofa*griculture at the State Agricultural College. These papers were read bytheir authors at the annual meeting of the board, held in January last,and are well worth preservation in this report of the board.

The "Schools of Kansas" are next treated of, and a very fulland complete statement is made concerning the public school system in theState, the examination of teachers and branches taught. In this chapterthe three State institutions, the State Agricultural College, the StateUniversity, and the State Normal School are also fully described and theirobjects set forth.

Financial statements of district and county agricultural societies ofthe State for the years 1883 and 1884, and a roster of the State Government,closes the volume.

The report is by far the most complete and valuable ever issued by theState Board of Agriculture, and will be much sought after by citizens ofthe State as a reference book. The Legislature, before its adjournment,ordered an extra edition of 10,000 volumes, and Maj. Sims, the Secretary,will take pleasure in forwarding copies as long as the edition holds out.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

If actions speak louder than words, Mr. Cleveland is telling the office-seekersin quite audible tones to go home and wait for their country to call themto public station, rather than to insist on seeking honors for themselvesor their cronies. Thus far the pressure of influence seems to have failedto dictate a single important office. The President is evidently callousto entreaty from interested parties, and such urgency is apt to do moreharm than good. He very plainly disbelieves in the feudal system in politics,and resents slate-making by delegation as an infringement of the functionsof the executive. It is probable that we shall hear no more of meetingsby Congressional State delegations to unite on names for recommendation.That scheme has been tried pretty thoroughly, and must be put down as afailure.

It is amusing to observe the efforts of Democratic Senators to avoidoffice-seekers at the Capitol. Every morning, at an early hour, the applicantsfor senatorial influence to aid them in getting appointments begin to collectin the Senate chamber. By eleven o'clock, generally, all the seats in therear of the chamber are occupied and the aisles are thronged with anxiouswatchers. Numerous questions are put to the pages in regard to Senator So-and-So,as to when he usually comes, by which door he enters, etc. It is noticeableof late that the Democratic Senators, with few exceptions, do not show upuntil after the Senate has been called to order. At five minutes to twelveJim Christie makes the circuit of the chamber, warning all, in his deepbass voice, who are not entitled to the floor, to get out. As the crowdsfile out, the men cast anxious glances back over their shoulders, apparentlystill hoping to catch sight of the Senator upon whom their hopes of officerest. But the Senators, thanks to the rules, are protected from their hungryconstituents after the fall of the gavel calling the body to order.

Department horses are not sheltered by the civil service rules, and ithas been decided that they must go. Secretary Lamar and Attorney GeneralGarland have both dispensed with the horses and carriages provided by thegovernment. Upon investigating the President's stables, Col. Lamont alsoconcluded that there were more horses kept there for the office use of theWhite House than will be needed during the summer, and has therefore givenorders that all but three shall be turned into the quartermaster's department,where they belong. There were originally seven office horses.

During Mr. Arthur's administration the White House stables were wellfilled, as, in addition to the seven horses referred to, he kept ten horsesat his own expense, among them four big bays, which were often driven fourin hand. These Mr. Arthur left for the use of President Cleveland as longas he might desire. President Cleveland intends keeping but two carriagehorses for his private use, and will shortly purchase a suitable pair, butuntil then will continue to use those placed at his disposal by Mr. Arthur.

The ex-President is receiving a constant round of attentions during hisstay at Secretary Frelinghuysen's house. Mr. Arthur has dined with Senatorand Mrs. Eugene Hale, with Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Morgan, with the Russian ministerand Madame de Struve, and with Chief Justice and Mrs. Waite. Last Wednesdaythe British Minister and Mrs. West entertained him at a dinner to fourteenguests.

The first formal reception of President Cleveland, last Friday evening,was a brilliant and successful affair in every way. At no time in the historyof the Executive Mansion has it presented a more attractive appearance,with its brightly illuminated and flower-decked parlors, and handsomelydressed legion of ladies, who moved gracefully about among the palms andfloral exotics that adorned the corridors and filled every nook and cornerof the parlors.

It was rather interesting to see ex-President Arthur passing in withother guests to do homage to the office which he held only a few weeks ago.President Cleveland, as soon as he saw the ex-President, stepped forwardand greeted him heartily, and Miss Cleveland was no less warm and cordialin her manners towards her brother's predecessor. Wherever he went Mr. Arthurwas followed by the glances of the crowd of guests, and all seemed to viewith each other in the most pleasing evidences of regard.

It is whispered that Mrs. Manning will be the social leader in the Cabinetcircle for several seasons. Mrs. Bayard is too much out of health to bearthe fatigues and responsibilities, and must be often represented by herdaughter. Mrs. Manning is a woman of fascinating presence, who possessesplenty of tact, a ready memory of faces and names, and is socially inclined.Indeed, I am told that her ambition, rather than her husband's, led himto give up his business in Albany for the Cabinet position. L.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The third decennial census of Kansas is now being taken by the townshipand city assessors, and it is important that it be thorough and accurate.The county clerk has received notice from some of the state officers notto receive the return of any assessor who may fail to do his duty fully,as the result will not only affect the salaries of county officers, butrepresentatives in the legislature, as apportionment of the state into senatorialand representative districts will be based upon the enumeration. His attentionhas also been called to the fact that the list of ex-soldiers must be complete.

Assessors will do well to make extra efforts to do everything pertainingto their duties, as it may save them a lot of trouble and unnecessary expensein the end.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Mr. Ryan, of Kansas, has been appointed on what a virtuous press callsa "junketing committee," which will put in a portion of the summerin inspecting the Indian training schools and examining the boundary linesof the Yellowstone Park. The economical Mr. Holman, of Indiana, was themover of this committee, and, consequently, is its chairman.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

We are in receipt of several communications from gentlemen for whosepersonal character and opinions we have great respect, in regard to thepresent condition of the prohibition issue, and it is but simple courtesyto give to them and others the reasons which induce us to decline the publicationof such communications.

For nearly five years the Champion has opened its columns toboth sides for the discussion of the question. The whole subject has beengone over and over again, and there is nothing new to be said about it.The question came up originally when the amendment was pending in 1880;it recurred again when the members were elected to the legislature in 1881;again in 1883, and again the legislature of 1885 was chosen at general electionof 1884. In every case, the people of Kansas had an opportunity to declaretheir will, and in every instance the Champion gave the fullestopportunity for discussion. The people have spoken, not once, but many times,and there is no need of going over the ground again. The people's will hasbeen embodied in law, and the law must take its course. There is no discussionnow, except that between the law and those who violate it. In this, newspapershave no part, except merely as recorders of the facts of the contest. Violatorsof the law are to be tried in the courts, not in the newspapers; and thosewho wish to aid in the enforcement of the law can find much more effectualmeans of advancing their work than by writing for the newspapers.

Atchison Champion.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Truth that is mightier than fiction, bulges out of every science of thefollowing, from the A. C. Democrat.

Among the counties of the growing and prosperous State of Kansas thathave become noted for their superior grades of production, none occupy ahigher position or offer better inducements to the capitalists than Cowley.Situated in the most healthful and salubrious locality in the State, andhaving all the advantages that nature in her extravagance could bestow,makes it the poor man's Eden and the rich man's Elysium. A region so situatedand favored must necessarily have before it a bright future. The generalcontour of the country is as fair as any that lies between the father ofwaters and the mountains. 'Tis not a land of enchantment, clad in the eternalemerald of nature and warmed by the never changing rays of a tropical sun;but just such a region as suggests itself to the practical farmer, horticulturalist,and stock grower. Those of our eastern readers who contemplate coming west,we invite them to visit Cowley County. Here you find homes and employmentin a land of progress and free schools, and among a people that in spiteof drought, or famine, or plague, have made this portion of the "GreatAmerican Desert" to bloom as a garden."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The following are the real estate transfers for the past week, as takenfrom the official records, and furnished the COURIER by the real estatefirm of Harris & Clark.

A. H. Doane and wife to J. A. Eaton, lots 7, 8, 8, 10, block 69, Winfield.$1,000.00

J. Chandler and wife to Miles L. Smith, s ½ of ne ¼, tp.15, range 6, east. $1,000.00

W. H. H. Maris and wife to Susannah Dodwell, ne ¼ of ne ¼.Tp 9, and nw ¼ of nw ¼ of nw ¼, tp 10, 34, 5 east.$300.00

Richard Clark to T. A. Williams, 2 acres in 27, 32, 4, east. $500.00

A. H. Armstrong to J. J. Moses, se ¼ of sw ¼, 12, and e½ nw ¼, and ne ¼ of the sw ¼, 13, 30, 7, east.$250.00

M. A. Helm and wife to H. C. Callison, ½ interest in lot 7, block186, Winfield. $75.00

J. C. Fuller and wife to H. C. Callison, lots 8, 9, block 186, Winfield.$250.00

H. Riley and wife to H. C. Callison, ½ interest in lot 7, block186, Winfield. $75.00

E. Riley and W. Riley to H. C. Callison, half interest in lot 7, block186, Winfield. $75.00

W. V. Pugsley to E. A. Henthorn, lots 20, 21, 22-31, 30, 8, east. $300.00

H. Gardner and wife to E. A. Tidd, lot 4, block 178, Winfield. $325.00

A. A. Newman and wife, and H. McLaughlin and wife, to E. E. Braggins,lots 11, 12, block 36, Arkansas City. $90.00

F. J. Hess to C. Ross, lots 1, 2, block 4, Arkansas City. $55.00

E. E. Braggins and T. E. Braggins to D. J. Buckley, lots 11, 12, block36, Arkansas City. $150.00

J. C. Topliff to A. Ross, lots 3, 4, block 4, Arkansas City. $50.00

H. P. Farrar and wife to T. J. Lewis, 19, 20, block 27, Arkansas City.$35.00

J. M. Alexander and wife to W. S. Brown, 2 acres in 27, 32, 4, east.$200.00

Udall Town Company to F. B. Senseny, lot 2, block 10, Udall. $15.00

F. B. Senseny and wife to A. G. Mudgett, lot 2, block 10, Udall. $160.00

A. F. Calson and wife to A. G. Mudgett, lot 2, block 10, Udall. $125.00

New Salem Town Company to A. S. Spencer, lot 5, block 17, New Salem.$120.00

M. M. Mitchell to J. R. Cottingham, s ½ of nw ¼ and n ½of sw ¼, tp 11, 31, 5, east. $360.00

S. W. Martin and wife to the United States of America, lots 8, 9, 19-6,30, 8 east. $197.12

Cambridge Town Company to R. F. Roberts, lot 4, block 11, Cambridge.$25.00

A. D. Prescott and wife to W. S. Nipp and L. A. Beach, lots 1, 2, block135, Arkansas City. $180.00

T. Orr to W. J. Orr, w ½ se ¼, 26, 31, 4 east. $600.00

J. W. Smith and wife to J. A. Emerson, lots 1, 2, block 42, Burden. $300.00

J. W. Whitson and wife to J. McCalester; lots 1, 2, block 2, Udall. $300.00

W. Ferguson and wife to B. Ferguson, n ½ se ¼ 20, and w½ sw ¼, 21, 30, 7, east. $1,000.00

B. Armstrong and wife to J. A. McGuire, sw ¼, 35, 32, 5, east.$806.00

L. E. Kelley to F. A. Belles, s ½ nw ¼, 27, 34, 7, east.$800.00

W. P. Cluny to J. Chandler, s ½ ne ¼, 13, 6, east. $800.00

M. L. Robinson and M. L. Read to H. Schaefers, lot 5, block 13, Winfield.$100.00

A. M. Gilderhause to S. S. Moore, se ¼, 17, e ½ nw ¼,sw ¼ of nw ¼, 20, 31, 7, east. $1,000.00

S. S. Moore and wife to A. M. Gilderhause, lot 1, block 3, Burden. $600.00

J. M. Collins to E. Caldwell, lots 6, 7, block 104, Arkansas City. $100.00

J. Drury and wife to E. J. McGuire, lots 3, 4-4, 35, 6, east. $600.00

J. A. Emerson to J. Mulfred, lots 1, 2, block 42, Burden. $300.00

B. W. Matlack to H. D. Bailey, lots 17, block 29; lot 7, block 74; lots1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, block 136;also 30 additional lots in Arkansas City. $1,300.00

B. W. Matlack to Henry J. Bailey, lot 24, block 68, Arkansas City. $500.00

G. W. Fowler and wife to J. B. Bailey, ne ¼, 31, 34, 7, east.$800.00

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Will the COURIER please allow me space to add a few words on the subjectof the social evil so truthfully and sensibly written up by a Winfield ladylast week. It is a stroke in the right direction, and will doubtless meetwith a hearty response from all who are fortunate enough to read it. Itshould be read and reread until the importance and immense magnitude ofthe subject is thoroughly grafted into the minds and hearts of the people,until they will not be able to rest till something is done. We are happyto admit that some of our noble sisters have a grand work for the temperancecause, yet the knowledge that hundreds of the weaker ones are yearly sinkinglower and lower in the slough of degradation robs their achievements ofhalf their glory, and who will say that this very evil is not a twin crimeto drunkenness; the toleration of which has ceased to be a virtue, and thegood and true have come to realize that something must be done. And as "Winfieldlady," God bless her, has laid aside the mask of false modesty thathas long kept many anxious wives and mothers silent, and has opened theway for a rehearsal of the whole matter, let us put all the energies ofour souls into the work with an earnestness that cannot be gainsaid. Ifnothing but legislation will do, let us have it. If we have to have a prohibitoryequally stringent with the prohibitory liquor law, let us have that.

As Kansas has taken steps toward a higher life in many of the late reforms,may she not be behind in this important matter. With the united effortsof her good women assisted and sustained by all her good men, we may yetbe permitted to behold a golden day for her fallen ones, and may her virtuesradiate far beyond the borders of our beautiful state, and others beingcaught in the rebound will help to carry on the good work. E. R.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The Arkansas City Democrat chronicles a harrowing tale of thefinding of the dead body of a little girl in the Territory. John R. Rigglesbygave this account of the discovery.

"Last Sunday Mr. Charles K. Bruster and myself went down into theTerritory to look after some stock, and rode down to a creek to water ourhorses. While the horses were drinking, we discovered a white object ina clump of bushes on the opposite side of the creek, which excited our curiosity,and Mr. Bruster decided to ride over and see what it was, and to his surpriseand horror found it to be a dead child. He called to me, and I went over,and we made a careful examination of the remains, but found them so badlydecomposed that we could not give any description of the deceased, onlythat it was a little girl, evidently about eight or nine years of age, cladin a plain calico dress and red plaided shawl. On the third finger of theleft hand was a small plain silver ring with the initials "E. V."engraved on top. We immediately came back to the State and notified everyonewe saw of our discovery, and during the day fully fifty people went downto take a look at the remains, but no one could recognize them. The childhad evidently been dead two or three weeks. No marks of violence could bediscovered on the body, and the general supposition is that the little onegot lost from some of the Oklahoma camps during their last raid into theTerritory and perished for want of food. The remains were brought up tothe State and buried Monday."

This is indeed a mysterious case. It hardly seems probable that a childcould wander from its parents in such a manner, without the whole Oklahomatribe being stirred up over the matter--yet we have all seen parents towhom such an occurrence would not be startling. The possibilities of humanityare varied and mysterious.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Among Winfield's many charming social events of the winter just closed,the calico ball at the Opera House Friday evening last carried off the queenship.The elite of the city were all present, the many calico costumes were variedand pretty, the ladies vivacious and beautiful--yes, even more beautifulthan usual, arrayed in simple, captivating calico--the music excellent,and everything as perfectly enjoyable as Winfield society could make it.The Winfield Social Club's bi-weekly hops, during the past winter, havebeen universally enjoyable, furnishing a social feature unexcelled. Winfieldbeats any city of its size in the West for good society. She stands on thepinnacle, with her thumb on her nose, holding undisputed championship inthis as in everything else.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

"We saw a map man paralyzing our businessmen yesterday on the questionof advertising the city on a map of Oklahoma," faberizes the ArkansasCity Traveler. "He wanted to put an advertisem*nt about threeby five inches on the inside of the cover, and expected to get $5 each fromabout forty businessmen, a neat little sum of $200, for a $2 advertisem*nt.We are glad to say that the most of our businessmen had the good judgmentto sit down on the fellow. The idea of that man who has never done, andnever will do anything for the City, carrying away $200 which ought to stayhere, is somewhat ridiculous. A two line local in any one of the three papershere would do more good."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

We understand that the cowboys had a hilarious old time at Kiowa oneevening last week, in which six shooters played a prominent part, very muchto the detriment of the window glass in the stores and business houses.An eye witness says that it seemed to him that there was not a whole windowglass left in the town. After sobering up the next morning, the boys calledaround and settled for the damage done, which of course was no small amountof money. There are a great many cowboys that are gentlemen, but if thereis anything that delights the heart of the wild and wooly bovine-puncherfrom the far west, it is to demolish window glass with his little gun.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

S. D. Harper, a young man who came from New Orleans a few weeks ago tolocate, was adjudged insane in a jury trial in the probate court Saturday.His nervous system was very much exhausted when he came here, brain feverset in, and his mind became irremediably shattered. He is of wealthy andinfluential parentage, unusually bright before this fatal stroke, and hissad fate falls like a pall upon his mother and other relatives who camefrom the south last week to care for him. Sheriff McIntire took him to Osawatomieyesterday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Winfield people were given an opportunity to show their appreciationof the tragedy Monday evening, in the appearance of W. E. Sheridan in "LouisXI, King of France." It was the greatest tragic impersonation evergiven to a Winfield audience and the support was good. Winfield's intelligenceand culture appreciate such entertainments.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Judge Gans has authorized the following parties to take the matrimonialroute to happiness during the past week: Phillip Hedges and Frances Bell,Wm. Fitzpatrick and Louisa Kelly, Henry Germar and Nellie Buck, August Kaesewieterand Annie Schaefer, Jesse Kuhn and Ida Moore.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

A fine line of residences in the city for sale at prices to suit buyers.Farms for sale in all parts of the county. Insurance written on all classesof insurable property. Money loaned on farms and city property by H. T.Shivvers. Office in McDonald building 2^nd door upstairs.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Miss Emma Bristol, of Bristol Sisters, Florists, Topeka, will spend Wednesdayafternoon and Thursday, April 8-9 in this city, at Friend's music store,with plants, bulbs, seeds, etc., for sale. Miss Bristol cordially inviteseveryone interested in flowers to call upon her.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The handsome drug emporium of H. Brown & Son is receiving a mostartistic decoration this week. Fine paint, beautiful wall paper, etc., havegreatly changed the appearance of the room. This is certainly one of thehandsomest drug houses in the State.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The passenger train on the Southern Kansas, which arrives here at elevenp.m., will probably run through to Harper or Attica instead of stoppingat Wellington, after the first of April.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The Cowley County Teachers' Association meets Saturday next in the highschool building, this city, where a program of great interest to educatorswill be carried out.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Curns & Manser loan money on terms to suit borrowers--long or shorttime, annual or semi-annual interest, or any way it may be desired, at lowcut rates.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Twenty families will be here within a few days. All have money and willwant to invest in good farms or city property. A. H. GREEN.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Go to P. H. Albright & Co. for real estate loans when you want themoney promptly and on the safest and most reasonable terms.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Geo. W. York has traded his Harper county farm for Winfield propertyand again settled on Cowley's fair domain.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Don't you know that Bliss & Wood are exchanging all grades of theirflour for wheat on reasonable terms.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

O. M. Seward will erect a neat law office on east Ninth Avenue, eastof J. F. McMullen's office.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Writing poetry is something like putting up stovepipe everybody knowshow until they try.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

200 pieces of embroidery, best styles and lowest prices, just openedat J. B. Lynn's.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Potatoes by the bushel, ten bushels or wagon load at J. P. Baden's.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

H. T. Shivvers, headquarters for cheap money.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Belva Lockwood at the Opera House April 1^st.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Miss Nellie Light, of Sedan, is visiting Mrs. H. H. Albright.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Mrs. B. T. Davis and son are visiting Junction City friends.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Will T. Madden is erecting a neat home on east 10^th avenue.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

John A. Eaton, cashier of the Farmers Bank, is in Chicago, on "biz."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Wm. Auston and wife, of Sparta, Wis., are visiting his sister, Mrs. C.Strong.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Mike O'Meara took a run to Harper Monday to look after his hardware intereststhere.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Judge J. E. Snow tied a matrimonial knot Friday, for August Kaesewieterand Anna Schaefer.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

G. W. Miller, Cowley's cattle king, left Tuesday to attend the cattlemen'sconvention at Caldwell.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Mrs. N. J. Platter will entertain the young People's Social and LiterarySociety Friday evening.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Mr. C. W. Stolp is completing a neat and substantial residence in theCOURIER Place, east 11^th avenue.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Jas. A. Patton, of Thornton, Indiana, arrived Saturday for a visit withhis old friend, Chas. F. Holmes.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Mr. S. D. Groom, one of Richland township's staunchest citizens, droppedin on the COURIER Thursday last.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

District Clerk Pate has been entertaining his nephew, C. P. Hollis, Kirksville,Mo., who resided here at one time.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Mrs. Julia Hills left for Valley City, Dakota, Saturday last, after awinter's visit with Mrs. C. Strong and family.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Lawton, of Delavan, Illinois, are visiting their oldfriends, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Buckman.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Miss Mattie Kinne left for her home in Good Hope, Ill., yesterday, aftera winter's visit with her sister, Mrs. E. P. Greer.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

C. H. Cleaves, the contractor, left Tuesday with a force of carpentersto erect fifteen or twenty houses in Touzalin immediately.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Ben Matlack has invested in a prancing roadster and buggy and proposesmaking things lively on the pleasure turf this summer.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

James E. Jones, for years one of the COURIER force, left last week withthe K. C. & S. surveying corps, for a few week's useful vacation.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Dr. D. J. States, of Matamoris, Ohio, an old friend of Will C. Barnesand family, arrived last Friday with his family and will probably locatein Winfield.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Rev. H. A. Tucker has been stationed at Parsons for the coming year.Since leaving here three years ago, he has had charge of the Ottawa Methodistchurch.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Bob Maxwell, one of Quincy Glass' handsome young salesmen, has been entertaininghis uncle, G. F. Maxwell, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, during the past week.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Mr. Robert Gibson, for several years with the dry goods establishmentof W. R. McDonald, left for Medicine Lodge Tuesday, to engage in dry goodson his own hook.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Rev. J. A. Hyden was stationed at Oswego by the last Methodist conferencefor his district, transferred from Neodesha, where he had served the allottedthree years.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Mr. and Mrs. Gus. Huff, of East Winfield, are the happy parents of abouncing baby girl, which appeared Sunday morning. Dr. Marsh reports thehousehold rapidly recovering.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Will McConn, the rustling young local editor of the Arkansas CityTraveler, fell into the COURIER den Saturday. The Traveler loomsup among the best local papers in Southern Kansas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Miss Kate Paulin, one of Burden's charming young ladies, accompaniedMiss Mary Berkey home and spent Saturday and Sunday. Miss Berkey's schoolat Burden closes this week.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Thompson, of south Walnut township, were made thehappy parents of a bouncing girl prattler Monday. Dr. Marsh thinks withcareful nursing, the old gentleman will pull through.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Read got home from New Orleans yesterday, after adelightful sojourn of over a month. Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Robinson accompaniedthem to St. Louis, where they stopped for a short visit.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Rev. B. Kelly got home yesterday from Conference. He was unanimouslyreturned to Winfield, which news, though not at all unexpected, will behailed with joy by his many warm friends in this city and county.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Prof. R. B. Moore, superintendent of the Burden Schools, was in the metropolisSaturday. The Professor is one of Cowley's most accomplished educators,and his popularity and success in Burden is well merited.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Robert Rogers, for some time past with Hendrix & Wilson, departedMonday for Touzalin, Meade County, to take charge of a lumber yard for Jas.H. Bullene & Co. Robert has the vinegar and ability to make a successof anything.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

A. A. Jackson has transferred his services as station agent at Seeleyto Las Vegas Springs, New Mexico, where he will remain in the employ ofthe Santa Fe and try to boil some of the rheumatism out of his frame. Hisfamily will remain in Seeley.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

E. H. Nixon and L. D. Zenor, old land marks of Winfield, left Mondayto enter the real estate and loan business at Medicine Lodge. They havelong been among our staunchest young men, and while we heave a sigh at theirdeparture, hope that they have struck the royal road to rosy fortune.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Mrs. R. E. Wallis returned Thursday last from a two months' visit inPhiladelphia and other eastern places. Sleighing was perfect in Pennsylvaniawhen she left and gentle spring had made no effects whatever at ticklingthe atmosphere--a big contrast to Cowley's glorious sunshine and balmy breezes.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Belva Lockwood, candidate for president at the late election, will entertaina Winfield audience with a lecture, on the evening of April 1^st.The Gymnasium Club has guaranteed her price, sixty-five dollars. She isa very captivating speaker and will have a large audience. Subject: "Politicaland social life in Washington."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Mr. E. M. Wheaton, who is visiting in Hornsville, Ohio, sends us a verychilly card dated the 21^st inst., stating that "stern winterstill holds a death-like grip on us here. Wheat badly winter-killed. Groundstill frozen at a depth of eighteen inches. Thermometer was below zero fromtwo to ten degrees several days this week."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Frank Barker and Lydia McMains were united in the bonds that can onlybe severed by a divorce court, in the parlor of the Central House in thiscity Tuesday, by Rev. J. B. Witt, the Christian minister of Arkansas City.The contracting parties were both from the Terminus. A number of their friendswitnessed the ceremony.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Albert, the six year old son of S. C. Priest, of north Creswell township,fell from a hay stack one day recently, on which he had climbed to hunteggs, and struck on a pitch fork that was leaning against the stack, tinesup. One of the tines entered his mouth and came out just below the eye.Inflammation set in and death resulted in a few days after.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Mr. T. R. Bryan has decided to enter the real estate and loan businessin Kansas City. Himself and family will be parted with very regretfully.Mr. Bryan has for years been one of Winfield's most enterprising and influentialcitizens, always prominent in everything for her material, moral, or socialadvancement. He will carry the well-wishes of a host of warm friends.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Dick T. Morgan, an attorney from Terre Haute, Indiana, and E. L. Girdener,with the Terre Haute Land and Excursion Agency, were doing our city lastweek. Mr. Girdener will probably run several emigrant excursions to Winfieldduring the summer, his plan being to arrange with real estate agents herefor a percent on lands sold to his excursionists. Mr. Morgan thinks stronglyof locating in Winfield in his profession.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Rev. J. H. Snyder has been returned by his conference to serve the UnitedBrethren church in our city another year. Rev. Snyder is a minister of markedzealousness and culture and has brought his church here from a small beginningto one of good proportions and splendid prospects--with a comfortable churchbuilding and vigorous membership. We are indeed glad the Reverend is tocontinue the good work he has so energetically inaugurated.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Mr. John A. Moore, the sterling young son of Uncle Billy Moore, unitedfortunes at the house of his father, Sunday last, with Miss Nettie Allison,a young lady of winsomeness and worth. Rev. J. H. Snyder officiated, anda number of relatives and friends were present, and the mythical weddingbells jingled merrily. An installment of cake reached the COURIER force,that elicited high praises of the bride, while choice Havanas spoke loudlyfor the enterprise and good judgment of the groom. May their life-boat eversteer clear of crags and safely reach the haven that the present indicates--thatof continued happiness and prosperity.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Winfield and Cowley County have never yet had brighter prospects beforethem. Immigration of a substantial nature is beginning to pour in. Privateimprovements are beginning on all sides and the prospect for public improvementscould not be better. Our prospective College, our sure enough Imbecile Asylum,the Kansas City and Southern and Denver, Memphis and Atlantic railroads,with probably an extension of the Douglas branch of the Santa Fe, promisean impetus that will put us in the advance of all other counties in southernKansas. But while we have all these grand prospects, it will take enterprise,energy and pluck on the part of our citizens to bring them to fruition.Every man wants to put his shoulder to the wheel, and laying aside localjealousies and personal aggrandizements, push with might and main for theinterests of the whole county. What builds up the county must necessarilybuild up her inhabitants.

Prominent among these enterprises is the Kansas City & SouthwesternR. R. The Winfield Enterprise Association, to whom was referred the propositionof this company, that Cowley County take stock in the line to the amountof $160,000, have determined to endorse the proposition and it will be broughtbefore the County Commissioners at their April meeting. In the meantimethe engineering corps are surveying the line from Beaumont, Butler County.The tools for work are already at Beaumont, several miles of right of wayare probably secured by this time, and before this week rolls away, dirtwill be flying on the line both ways from Beaumont. The company agree togive us their direct line to Kansas City in six months, and will probablygive us a connection with the Frisco line in three months. The company,owing to warm competition by neighboring counties, will entertain no propositionfor a less bond, and while this seems a large amount, Cowley can't affordto let it pass. It opens up a direct trunk line from Kansas City to thegreat southwest, with a route forty miles shorter than any we now have,and its varied advantages can be readily seen by a careful observer.

Everything is getting in shape for immediate operations on the D., M.& A. railroad also. Bonds have been re-voted in several townships andcounties and John Fitzgerald, to whom the contract of construction has beenlet, will commence work as soon as the initiatory right of way can be obtained.This line will ask for township bonds, through the townships of Dexter,Harvey, or Tisdale, Walnut, Winfield, and Vernon, and will have no troublein securing reasonable aid. Our people are awake to the importance of bothof these lines, and while they don't propose to go wild and do anythingunreasonable, are prepared to exercise a true spirit of enterprise in aidingand securing these roads.

With a complete radius of railroads added to people, soil, climate, buildingmaterial, etc., the equal of any county on the globe, Cowley will standout the beacon light that will attract immigration unsurpassed--immigrationof a solid, influential, and enterprising character. We will soon have sixtyor seventy-five thousand inhabitants, manufactories, and everything to makeus the richest and most influential county in the west. We have grand opportunitiesbefore us. Let us grasp them.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

W. G. Graham, T. R. Bryan, S. H. Myton, A. B. Graham, H. D. Gans, H.B. Schuler, J. B. Lynn, and Wm. Newton have purchased the Vandeventer landlying in the northeastern part of the city, abutting the mounds and containingone hundred and forty-six acres, for the neat sum of $11,744. It is beingplatted this week for an addition to the city and the lots will be put inthe market. It is all choice residence property and will very soon be coveredwith handsome houses. The gentlemen have formed themselves into the "HighlandPark Company," and intend to park a broad avenue through the propertyand make it the prettiest piece of land in the city, which can be easilydone with its natural advantages.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Mr. Monroe Teter, an account of whose injury by being thrown from a wagonis given by our Hackney reporter, was more seriously injured than at firstsupposed. The concussion darkened his memory so completely as to leave norecord of his having started to town Monday or as to anything that occurredduring the day. His left arm was broken in two places. The rocks causingthe disaster had rolled down from the cliff bordering on the west approachto the west bridge. Authorities can't be too careful about keeping obstructionsremoved from public roads.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

William and Levi Neese, of south Dexter township, charged with beatinga horse belonging to A. A. Hamill, to death, had a trial in Judge Buckman'scourt Monday and were discharged, about the only explicit evidence beingthat the horse was defunct--had gone to horse heaven some seven weeks agoby a route unprovable. The boys spent a week in the "cooler" precedingthe trial.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

"A dog suspected of having been bitten by a rabid canine shouldbe tied up," says a Wellington paper. The best way to tie up such adog, permit us to suggest, is to place one end of a rope round the neckof the animal and attach the other end to the limb of a tree, so that thehind feet of the cur will not touch the ground by about twelve inches. Adog kept in this position an hour or so, will harm no one if he does gomad.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

A little determination, elbow grease, and good taste should be put forthall over Cowley County on next Thursday, "Arbor Day." Many a schoolhouseover the County unprotected by shade or shelter, can be vastly improvedin appearance and comfort by a little extra effort. Let us see that thisday so wisely set apart by Governor Martin is energetically celebrated.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The progressive euchre mania seems to be gradually fastening itself onWinfield. There is no more fascinating and popular society game and it shouldhave struck us ere this. The latest party was given on Thursday eveninglast by Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Webb. Some fourteen couples took part and a mostenjoyable evening was spent.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

And now the village of Wichita comes forward in a dazzling prospect ofelectric light. The Eagle says a representative of an electriclight company is on hand to put in a plant without any "aid" whatever,depending entirely on the patronage of the businessmen.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

We are glad to announce that the terrible mental strain which has existedon the minds of our people for several weeks by the delay in publishingthe "long-looked-for" article entitled "Money and PricesNo. 2," is now relieved. The article appeared in print this week.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

S. Kleeman arrived home yesterday morning, after a three weeks' tripeast, buying goods. He claims to have bought an elegant stock, and asksthe people to call and see for themselves, the prices and quality. He talksas if he means what he says.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The United Telephone Company are completing arrangements for a telephoneline between Winfield and Wellington, via Oxford. This line has long beentalked of and the Company now thinks, with local aid, it will be a payinginvestment.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The chronic grumbler was disposed to heap anathemas deep and dire uponthe weather clerk as the gentle breezes of Monday morning, mingled witha fair coating of the beautiful snow, enwrapped his disgruntled frame. Heis calmer now.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The Burden Eagle says that a family of tramps, consisting offather, mother, and sixteen children, passed through there Sunday morningfrom Austin, Texas, and bound for Denver, Colorado. They were on foot andmostly barefooted.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Scene in Wellington. "Now, you John William, you must stop perambulatingthose twins in that roller skate. Take the babies out of it and bring itright away into the house. Your sister wants to go to the skating rink."Eagle.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The Winfield Restaurant, under management of T. F. Axtel, the veterancaterer, is gaining a deserved reputation as the champion place to obtaina twenty-five cent meal or reasonable weekly board.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The Southern Kansas railroad company is obeying the act of the Legislaturerequiring the fencing of all lines. Work is going on at Grenola--the workmencoming this way.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The Juvenile Missionary Society will give a Tea at the M. E. church,Thursday evening, at 6 o'clock. All are invited to help the little onesin their labors.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Hose Company Number Two will give one of their pleasant hops in McDougall'shall Friday evening, to which they invite all devotees of Terpsichore.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The members of the Women's Suffrage Association are earnestly requestedto meet at the residence of Mrs. C. Strong, on the 31^st at 3p.m.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Go to P. H. Albright & Co. for real estate loans when you want themoney promptly and on the safest and most reasonable terms.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

J. B. Lynn has received an immense stock of embroidery direct from SaintGall, Switzerland.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Every day adds proof that winter wheat in Cowley County is badly damaged;in fact, about three fourths of it winter killed. Some are prone to blamethe disaster on the festive little Hessian fly, but those who have studiedthe matter claim that the terribly hard and wet freeze of February, whenall the snow had disappeared, was what did it. But there is no doubt thatthe Hessian fly greatly weakened the wheat by its forages last fall in manysections. Several farmers have told us that the roots of much of the wheatare now literally covered with the insect's eggs, ready to hatch with warnweather and complete the disaster. Wheat that was sown in corn stalks seemsto be free of the fly and avoided freezing and looks well, but that sownon stubble ground cannot possibly make one-fourth of the usual crop. Itis an ill wind that blows nobody good. While this great damage to wheatis deplored, it will teach a salutary lesson--one that this section needsbadly, and that is to engage more in diversified farming. Our farmers havebeen depending too much on one crop: wheat. They want to raise more corn,oats, potatoes, and other products with cattle, hogs, etc. From presentprospects, the farmer who has a good bin of wheat to hold will command aroyal price within a few months. Cowley County and Kansas are not the onlyplaces affected--the same fate seems to have befallen the wheat over theentire country--but a few districts escaping.

If this damage to winter wheat proves as great as now indicated, therewill be no "overproduction" and low prices next season. Farmersare arranging to plow up a majority of their wheat and plant other crops,while we have heard of a few who will get seed and experiment on springwheat. Should the chinch bugs be scarce, as has occurred for two years back,there is a probability that spring wheat would be successful. However, anumber are waiting for further developments in hope that the damage is notso great as now feared. It has frequently occurred in this county that wheatwhich had been given up as ruined afterwards developed marvelously and madefifteen to twenty bushels per acre. It is not best to be too hasty in plowingit up.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Mr. B. F. Wood is in receipt of a letter from Mrs. W. D. Halfhill, verymuch deploring the bad reports that have been given credence in Winfieldregarding her husband and showing his offenses to be light--rather claimsthat a mole hill has been transformed into a mountain, much to the detrimentof innocent parties. Halfhill will be remembered as the late law partnerof Chas. M. Leavitt. He mysteriously decamped in February, and the COURIERchronicled his arrest, a few weeks after, in Wellington. The Van Wert, Ohio,Times, gave this account of his charge and arrest: "The GrandJury at the last term of court found two indictments against Wm. D. Halfhill,one for alleged embezzlement and one for obtaining title to land under falsepretenses. The late Isaiah Jones owed the Ohio Wheel Company $100, and theadministratrix, Mrs. Jones, paid the amount to her attorney, Dick Halfhill,and instructed him to go to Delphos, pay the debt, and get a receipt. Hepaid $50, receiving receipt therefor, and on presentation of the receipt(or voucher) at the Probate office, it had been altered to a receipt for$100. Halfhill claimed to have a claim on land sold by J. B. McClure toSimon Kiser, and when Mr. Kiser had cut timber off of the land bought, Halfhillby threats secured a quitclaim deed. He has been in Kansas lately, lookingfor a location and Sheriff Gordon started Sunday to arrest him, after gettinga requisition on Gov. Martin, of Kansas, from Gov. Headly, of Ohio. He arrivedat Topeka and conferred with the Sheriff, who had heard that a legal Colonelof Van Wert had offered $3,000 reward for Halfhill's arrest and was notdisposed to lose the reward. Sheriff Gordon gave the Topeka officer theprivilege of arresting Halfhill or not, as he chose, and he had to "givein." After going to several places, Halfhill was found and when hearrived here, a crowd of perhaps half a thousand was on hand, about therailway station and courthouse, and gave him a very humiliating reception.Finding no one who was willing to go his bail, the prisoner is now in jail."The wife says he is out on bail, and that she is positive that he will beacquitted--a very natural feeling for a devoted young wife.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The City "Dads" held an adjourned session Monday evening. Petitionof August Kadau and sixteen others for sidewalk on the west side of lots1 and 26, block 222, and along the south side of 3^rd avenue frontingon lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 in same block, was referred. CouncilmenMcGuire and Hodges were appointed to investigate as to the amount of moneyin the city treasury and the amount yet to be collected with a view of adjustingthe city order of Winfield Water Company, issued in July, 1884. The committeepreviously appointed to report territory for incorporation recommended thatthe city attorney commence legal proceedings at once to have the followingdescribed tracts of land added to the city's corporate limits: Beginningat the northwest corner of the Moorehouse property, near the railroad crossingto the Tunnel mill; running along the township line to the southeast cornerof Howland's quarter, then north to the northeast corner of same quarter,then east 80 rods, then north one mile to the northeast corner of same quarter,then east 80 rods, then north one mile to the northeast corner of west halfof Dr. Davis' quarter; then west three-fourths mile to northeast cornerof Vandeventer quarter; then south to Manny's brewery; then following onsouth side of Dutch Creek and east side of the Walnut to west line of rightof way of the Santa Fe railroad; then following railroad south to corporationline. The report was adopted, and the city attorney will proceed at onceto file the proper petition before Judge Torrance and the hearing is setfor the 20^th of April. The petition of Frank Manny to be takeninto the corporate limits was granted and the proper ordinance ordered.Bills of Leon Doroshee, work on streets, $2.75; J. M. Keck, team and carriage,$2.00, were ordered paid. Bills of City Clerk Buckman, railroad fare forLida Vandermark, a pauper, $7.50, and J. P. Baden, goods furnished numerouspaupers, $53.40, were referred to the County Commissioners for payment.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The District Court for Cowley comes a month earlier under the law changingthis district. The next term opens the first Saturday in April, for whichthe following persons have been drawn as petit jurors: Wm. H. Buckles, Winfield;Samuel Wilson, Omnia; Jno. Ross, Walnut; Jo. McMillen, Richland; Geo. S.Howard, Creswell; Daniel Bunnell, Silverdale; A. H. Havens, Dexter; S. G.Phillips, Pleasant Valley; O. P. Pierce, Silver Creek; W. H. Stewart, Creswell;R. L. Condiff, Spring Creek; C. A. Peabody, Dexter; J. T. Rittenhouse, Windsor;D. D. Kellogg, Ninnescah; J. N. Fleaharty, Silverdale; J. A. Patterson,Walnut; Wm. Wadsack, Richland; M. H. McKune, Pleasant Valley; Samuel Eslinger,Winfield; J. C. Roberts, Walnut; G. W. Yount, Walnut; L. E. Woodin, Sr.,Creswell; J. O. Reed, Silver Creek; W. W. Underwood, Dexter.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The Arkansas City Republican uses more brass than discretionin the assertion that "a large number of the people of the county arein favor of the Kansas City and Southwestern railroad coming through Burdenand Tisdale to Arkansas City." We might remark that a large numberof the people of the county are also in favor of the road going throughWinfield, Geuda, and Caldwell, thus tapping our great Saratoga and the heartof the cattle interests.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Corn is scarce at 40 cents a bushel. It has proven a much more profitablecrop this year than wheat. The large stock interests of the county demandan immense amount of corn, and double the acreage will be planted this year.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

It is earnestly requested that the petitioners for a camp of Son of Veteransin Winfield meet at the Odd Fellows hall on Saturday evening next, whenJ. E. Snow, mustering officer of the G. A. R., will muster the camp.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Married, on Wednesday, March 25, at the residence of the bride's parents,in Winfield, Kansas, by Rev. C. P. Graham, Mr. Henry Germar, of Wichita,Kansas, and Miss Nellie E. Buck, of Winfield, Kansas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Frank Manny has been circulating a petition among our citizens this weekasking a permit from the Probate Judge to manufacture and sell beer formedical, scientific, and mechanical purposes.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Rev. S. S. Holloway delivered an enthusiastic and well received sermonat the Methodist church last Sunday morning, and Mr. S. H. Jennings gavea very sound lecture in the evening.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

A real estate man, W. W. Arnold of Kansas City, is visiting his friend,E. L. Doty.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

So many severe strictures have been made on the ladies of the Woman'sChristian Temperance Union for their efforts in reclaiming the unfortunateLida Vandermark, that at their last meeting, the only regular one sincethe affair occurred, a statement of the case was drafted for publication.It is clear and Christian-like--just such a one as would be expected fromsuch a band of noble self-sacrificing women, and now that the matter hascooled down, prejudiced minds can the better weigh the evidence. Here istheir statement.

So much has been said about the relations of the W. C. T. U., to LydiaVandermark, and falsely said, that we feel driven to ask the COURIER, inthe interests of truth and charity, to publish a plain narrative of thefacts in the case. We received the letter, published by the COURIER recently,from a county official in behalf of the commissioners. In response to thatletter, we sent a committee to confer with the commissioners, to interviewthe girl, and report to us the situation. We also sent a committee to interviewDr. Park, and learn whether the girl was diseased so as to render it imprudentor wrong to try to find her a place where she might earn her living. Havingreceived satisfactory assurances on all points, we undertook to get thegirl a place. After trying in vain to find her a place where she might earnher living by honest work, one of our members agreed to take her for a timeprovided we would pay her boarding. We were compelled either to do thisor to leave her in jail. We chose to pay the bill for her boarding. So wetook her out of jail, and placed her in the home of Mrs. Holloway, stipulatingthat she was not to know this, but be left to suppose that she was earningher boarding by her work. The next thing we knew, there was a general furorabout the ladies of the W. C. T. U. having obtained from her a list of thenames of those who visited the house of shame in which she was an inmate.It was alleged that she had named a large portion of the businessmen andboys of the town, that the W. C. T. U. had this list, and was going to useit. There was not one word of truth in the whole story, so far as the W.C. T. U. was concerned. No list was ever presented and no name mentionedin any of our meetings. If there was such a list made out, the ladies ofthe W. C. T. U. never saw it, and never knew what names were on it, exceptas they heard them by general rumor through the city. It was also allegedthat the girl was cared for and clothed with material furnished by the LadiesRelief Society. We published a denial of this, and said that we did thiswork at our own cost. One of the city papers published this denial, andadded editorially, that "all the same we were trying to get the councilto reimburse us for the outlay." The facts on this point are, the girlhad almost no clothing. A few necessary articles were bought for her whileat Mrs. Holloway's, amounting to $7.21. After she had been at Mrs. Holloway'sfor more than two weeks, an effort was made to re-commit her to prison,with no other prospect than to finally turn her loose to go on sinking insin and shame, and dragging others down with her. Learning the situation,she was taken out of Mrs. Holloway's hands and was received into the houseof a generous lady who kept her until we could complete arrangements forsending her to the home for the friendless. The lady referred to proposedgoing with the girl to ensure her safety and admission to the home, if wewould pay her traveling expenses. To this we agreed. The girl was providedwith decent clothing and was taken away, and entered in the house. Now afterall expenses had been incurred, the bill for $7.21, was presented to thecouncil. We give below a table of expenses.

Clothing furnished, exclusive of bill presented to the council: $20.00

Boarding with Mrs. Holloway: $9.00

Railroad fare to Leavenworth and return with hotel bill, etc., of thelady guardian: $21.70

To this must be added the bill sent to the council: $7.21

Now the only aid asked from the council in this case was the bill forabsolute necessities for the girl, amounting to the enormous sum of $7.21!The $50.70 was contributed by the W. C. T. U. and a few outside friends.These few women, and two or three parties outside their society, contributedseven-eights of the cost of putting the poor girl in a place where she wouldhave some chance of escaping her evil course. They asked the city councilto contribute one-eighth! And it was refused! So we have that also to pay.But was it unreasonable to ask the council to aid us? Suppose we had declinedthe call of the commissioners, and left the girl in jail; the cost to thetaxpayers would have gone much beyond the $7.21. For the railroad ticketfurnished the girl to Leavenworth, we do not count, because others of herclass have been furnished with tickets whereby to get away from town. Theseare the facts in the case. We have paid out the bulk of the $57.91. Partof it is yet to be paid, and will be paid soon.

The whole case is before the public. We want, in closing this article,to ask the public two or three questions.

1. Suppose we had declined to take this girl off the hands of the authorities,to remove her from jail, and do our best to give her a chance to reform.Suppose that! Then what a howl of virtuous indignation would have been raisedagainst us! What words would have sufficed to express the righteous wrathof the public against a set of women who, calling themselves Christians,would make no effort to secure a fallen sister?

2. Under what obligation do we rest more than other people in the community,to expend money in such a cause? That we are Christians obligates us todo what we can for the wretched; but the fact of our Christianity does notabsolve the rest from the obligation of natural brotherhood which is uponall.

3. What is there in the whole case to call for the flood of calumny,coarse and brutal (we beg pardon of the brutes) insult to which we havebeen subjected? These facts which we now publish could have been learnedat any time by anyone wishing to know the truth.

4. How much encouragement does the treatment we have received in thiscase afford us to lend a helping hand to the needy again? Probably if calledon tomorrow, we should face the music and fight the battle again rememberingwho said, "Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you and prosecuteyou, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake."Thank God! We have, at least for a time, got this poor child only 17 yearsold, out of the mire! May God keep her out of it! THE W. C. T. U.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The Cowley County Farmers' Institute held an adjourned session Saturdaylast, with President F. W. McClellan in the chair and a good number of farmerspresent. Secretary F. A. A. Williams reported that he had very favorablerates on grass seed from Kansas City and Lawrence, which rates would begiven to members of the Institute desiring to order.

James P. Martin presented the name of Isaac Wood, of Oxford, as a memberof the Institute and stated that Mr. Wood reported fine success with Englishblue grass, red clover, and red top on his Arkansas bottom sub-irrigatedsoil. Alfalfa had failed with him, probably because the water was so nearthe surface. Mr. Stevens, of Richland township, sowed 2 bushels each oftimothy and blue grass on 12 acres of bottom land, and now has a good standof timothy and enough blue grass to promise to take the whole piece in twomore years.

Mr. McClellan: "I would like to bring before the meeting a programof the Oxford, Ohio, Farmers' Club. They hold monthly meetings at the members'houses and prepare and publish their yearly programs beforehand, and haveladies belong and take part in the meetings."

On motion of Mr. Martin, the society decided to hold regular meetingson the second Saturday of each month.

The officers of the Institute were instructed to obtain such price listsas will be of advantage to members of the society and also to subscribefor three months for the Kansas City Price Current, for the useof members of the society.

Mr. Martin related his experience with four experimental plats of grass.Johnson grass not desirable, no better than sorghum; meadow oat-grass looksthe best now, is green, and has a better growth than any other. Orchardgrass and alfalfa have done well.

The secretary was requested to correspond with manufacturing firms andendeavor to obtain reduced rates on implements to members of the Institute.

Some discussion on condition of fruit buds: Generally reported in goodcondition, with good prospects for a full crop. Wheat reported very largelykilled, except in cornstalks or on millet stubble. Several reported it allright on strips or spots that had been manured.

Discussion on oats: Members generally preferred sowing broadcast on stalkground, cultivating them in, and harrowing after plowing.

In regard to the effect of millet on land, the general impression wasthat it was not more injurious than other crops.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Sam L. Gilbert got in yesterday from Washington, D. C., where he tookin the inaugural and mingled with the "Dems" to his heart's content.He also cornered President Cleveland for a nice little talk, and pronounceshim a "daisy." Sam's name appears to be Ell.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The New Jewell gasoline stove cures domestic infelicity. Don't fail tosee it at Horning & Whitney's.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

E. M. Ballanger, our boss carpenter, took a trip to Mulvane on Saturday.

F. A. Brady will hereafter preach at the Baptist church, vice Burgess,resigned.

J. T. Dale took a trip to Arkansas City on Monday. Don't think this Daleis a boomer; he is simply a rustler.

Miss Maggie Martin has organized a music class. Maggie is an expert onthe organ and will give her patrons full satisfaction.

Wm. B. Norman moved his office west of the old location and will proceedto put in a building to be occupied as a jewelry store.

We can now boast of a milk man, that is, we have a dairy. Mr. Seversis the proprietor and is delivering good fresh milk to the thirsty of ourcity.

Will Kendall took a trip to Emporia on Saturday to see his best girl.We are sorry to hear she is confined with the measles, but trust Will cansqueeze them out all right.

The city parliament at its last session, ordered sidewalks built on allthe principal streets so pedestrians can now go from one part of the cityto the other without being lost in mud holes.

S. Moore was awarded the contract for building the mill at this place,to be of stone, three stories high, with mansard iron roof, to be completedwithin sixty days from date. Udall doth boom.

Rev. Hollis, of the Christian church made our city a short visit on Mondayand was very agreeably surprised at the growth and intelligence of our citizens.Mr. Hollis is from Iowa, and an old friend of H. H. Martin.

The ladies of the Christian church met at the residence of Mrs. H. H.Martin on the 18^th inst., and organized a Ladies' Aid Associationfor the purpose of carpeting the church. We wish them success in their undertaking,as it is a meritorious cause they are engaged in.

We hear some talk of a new paper being started here, but sincerely trustsuch is not the case. We have one good solid, substantial paper publishedhere, which is an organ of great practical benefit to our city and a creditto the publisher, and should have the undivided support of our citizens.As our city has not yet arrived at that state of supreme happiness whichrequires a second paper to be published for the gratification of any manor set of men, nor will the support be adequate for the maintenance of twopapers.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Miss Ermie McKee was in Winfield Saturday.

Torrance had a trial on Thursday, but I don't know what it was about.

Miss Fannie Himelick, of Cambridge, spent Thursday with Miss Ermie McKee.

Mr. Frank Weaverling, of Winfield, and Scott W , of Burden, passedthrough our city Sunday.

The Mite met at Miss Eva Reynolds' on Saturday evening. All present reporta good time.

Mr. Swim left Monday for his claim in Ford County. Mrs. Swim and Oliverwent as far as Winfield with him.

Quite a number from here contemplated attending the play at Burden Fridaynight, but the rain prevented them from going.

Mr. Ridgeway, of Dexter, shipped five carloads of cattle from here onMonday. Mr. Peabody shipped two carloads on Tuesday.

There was a magic lantern show at the South Torrance schoolhouse Saturdayevening. As I was not there and have not seen anyone who was, I can't sayhow good it was.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Weather not so pleasant as it has been. A light snow fell Monday.

Miss Ola Harden has gone to Great Bend for a three weeks' visit.

S. B. Sherman is fencing in his lots, thus adding quite an improvementto his part of town.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Lukens, March 9, a boy. Child and mother reportedas getting along nicely.

Mrs. McDaniels had the misfortune to lose her best horse last week bythe stable caving in. The other one was badly injured.

Frank Harden recently purchased a house and lot of Henry Lukens. We wonderif Frank intends to get a bird for his little cage.

Mr. R. E. Hicks and Grandma Hicks, of Grenola, and Miss Allie Burke,of Coffeyville, were guests of Mrs. W. A. Weaverling, last week.

Dr. F. A. Howland, of Chicago, has arrived in town and is fitting upan office in the Harris residence, which indicates that he means to stay.The doctor is strictly homeopathic, and we bespeak for him a good practice.

We understand that the Christian preacher in his last sermon here tookexceptions to the item that appeared in one of our communications two orthree weeks ago, concerning "taking a little more for the stomach'ssake." We learn that he denied the charge and requested "H"to rectify the mistake through the COURIER. Gladly would we do it were ita mistake, but we are told that he made the same assertion a week ago, i.e.,"I believe in taking intoxicants when necessary, but never to excess."This, we think, is what Paul meant when he said: "Take a little winefor the stomach's sake."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Sowing oats is the order of the day.

A. T. Gay is in Illinois wading in the mud.

Henry Huff still is the attraction at the new store.

Cleveland's proclamation is a bitter pill for some of our boomers.

Frank Wilson manipulates the Hewitt place on Silver Creek this season.

William Wyckoff scores another boy. "Scedunk holler" is fastcoming to the front.

Our church is about ready for the long proposed festival. The boys areanxious for the supper.

Our Richland friends seem quite well pleased with their new acquisition.Still, Baker is unhappy.

The sewing machine agent and the lightning rod man are again on the warpath. Verily the spring is here.

Road Overseer Divelbiss is doing good work along the west end of hisdistrict. Walnut township would do well to follow suit.

We understand our Salem friends passed some very wicked resolutions onthe 18^th. Well, it won't hurt them to effervesce.

An old settlers' picnic is talked of for some time in the near future.We think it a good scheme; can't get the old pioneers together too often,for they won't last long.

N. D. Gould and wife celebrated their paper wedding on the 19^thinst. Quite a company surprised them in their domicile and took possession.The fun ran high until near midnight, when the party broke up. Mr. and Mrs.Gould were the recipients of many useful as well as queer paper presents."Long may they wave."

I understand that the "kickers" at New Salem are charging ourSenator and Representative with some very ugly acts. The fact is that ahalf dozen men at N. S. were guilty of all the fraud and dirty work thatwas done during our township fight. I am satisfied that the majority ofthe Salemites were disposed to be fair and honorable. I do not wish to bepersonal, but if those few wire-workers do not stop trying to besmirch thecharacters of better men in order to hide their own inferiority, I shallbe obliged to relate a few facts to the public and give names. Their coursesince their defeat has been anything but manly. Their whines now are almostas loud as their rejoicings when they supposed they were victorious.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Oats that are sown are having a cold time of it.

Rev. Lee will preach at the Irwin chapel the coming year.

Mr. John Gerhart has sold his 8 acre farm. Consideration $1,500.

There will be a large acreage of corn and oats planted on wheat ground.The wheat is badly killed.

Mr. M. Lindle started for Clark County last Monday, where he expectsto make his future home.

Mr. J. Muret and others that have been in Clark County part of the winterfound out that Uncle Sam did not do a fraudulent business; consequently,they will have to stay in Clark County until the first of July.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Ground will be broken immediately for the Granger's new store building.

Chalk it down in your diary that beautiful snow made us a visit as lateas March 23^rd, 1885.

Mr. West Holland and wife, who have been sojourning in North Carolinaall winter, are expected home in a few days.

Several of our dilatory farmers are now "humping themselves"in an effort to gather last year's corn nubbins in time to plant the newcrop.

Ed Watt is in a dilemma. A few days ago a fellow came along with a flockof sheep and turned them over to Ed to pasture a month in his stalk field.It now turns out that the sheep are mortgaged for $400 more than their presentvalue--and the owner has "skipped." Ed is now worrying over hisfees.

Many of our farmers are contemplating seeding the greater portion oftheir wheat fields to corn, oats, and millet. It is now a conceded factthat the crop is damaged to an alarming extent, possibly an average of fiftypercent. Even "Country Jake" condescends to admit the accuracyof "Mark's" first estimation.

County Superintendent Limerick dropped in on our school ma'am, in No.115, last Friday afternoon, for a short but pleasant visit. He importeda portion of his enthusiasm to the scholars in an interesting talk on thevalue of an education. The Professor is daily winning laurels because ofthe energetic manner in which he performs the duties of his position. Ifthird-termism is not a crime and a violation of the constitution, Prof.Limerick's continuance in this office should be insisted upon.

Last evening our esteemed neighbor, Mr. Monroe Teeter, was brought homefrom Winfield in an insensible condition produced by concussion of the brain.His mule team, in shying off from a large rock, ran the wagon over another,which threw Mr. Teeter out; and in falling, his head struck a stone withsuch force as to fracture his skull. He was in a delirious and precariouscondition all night; but at this writing is apparently resting easy. Hismany friends trust that the result will not prove serious and hope thathe may speedily recover, from this, nearly a fatal accident.

"Country Jake" took advantage of "Mark's" absencefrom Cowley a short time ago, to divulge the fact that he had inadvertentlycaught sight of a photo which Mark had received. Now my dear Jakie in reportingthe fact, you have committed yourself as a spy of the smallest "fry."Instead of stealthily squinting, you might have indulged with a good squarelook, and an explanation might have quieted your suspicions. The exposureis not what hurts, but the fact that it was not the photo you represented.However, C. J. deserves to be complimented on his good judgment of beauty.

"Mark" enjoyed a pleasant visit with "G. V.," lastSunday, and with him as escort "took in" the Magnolia farm ofthe Vermilye Bros. This farm has been written up so often that I will notattempt a description of it. Suffice to say, however, that it is the bestequipped farm of 600 acres in the county and perhaps, southern Kansas. Stockraising is made a specialty, and the farm possesses a good representationof fine blooded animals. It is well worth one's time to make a tour of inspectionof the premises. The visitors will be cordially received and kindly treatedby the Messrs. Vermilye, who are agreeable and sociable gentlemen.

The conceited excrescence on society, who makes such feeble and futileefforts in aspiring to the dignity of a reporter to the Telegram fromthis locality, under the caption "Neptune," in his idiotic drivelingsin last week's issue of that paper, had the unblushing effrontery to accuse"Mark" of egotism and question his veracity. This quintessenceof impudence and adamantine cheek, who is permitted through the generouscourtesies of a suffering public, to roam at large because of the unfinishedcondition of our imbecile institution, had better form the acquaintanceof a work on grammar, and have someone introduce him to a book on rhetoricinstead of disgusting the public with his obnoxious belchings.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

New miller at Dunkard mill.

Will Birdzell is fencing his pasture.

Mrs. Grantham is somewhat convalescent.

Gardening has commenced. Some potatoes have been planted.

Has "Young Nasby" lost his equilibrium and fallen into themire of seclusion?

Harry Shaw and Perry Birdzell have organized themselves into a sod-breakingsociety.

John Gerhart has sold his farm to a man that can appreciate our country.John, good-bye; here's a tear.

Rev. Crawford will expostulate to our people on Saturday evening andSunday next. Let all turn out for his cause.

M. H. Markcum, one of Hackney's most sterling businessmen and managerof the Holtby estate, visited South Bend a few days ago.

Several Winfield sportsmen came down to McClung's duck pond last week;but as that game was painfully absent, no damage was done excepting theirshooting the bark off Mr. McClung's trees.

Joe Mitchell will go to Santa Fe, New Mexico, after the completion ofAl. Greave's barn. He will probably seek a carpenter's position on a governmentbuilding now in course of construction at that place.

M. Avery Jordan is opening a rock quarry on the hill north of Will Birdzell's,Mr. Jordan has been in our country only a short time, but when he makesa move, it means business. Mr. Jordan will probably locate permanently here.

Will Moore, who used to pester South Bend with his blood-curdling storiesof "living on his own wealth," now threatens to come back fromNemaha County to fatten up and die nearer his own people. Come back, Will;there is yet room for one Moore.

Our school closed last Saturday. As a pedagogues, Mr. Akers has givenentire satisfaction. Master Jimmie Broadwell's report showed a full-timeattendance, which evinces his desire to climb the ladder of knowledge.

Mr. Ray, now at Magnolia farm, is preparing a large taxidermic displayof birds to be shipped to New York City. This will upset that vague easternidea that "nothing larger than a grasshopper grows in Kansas."

George Hunt has pulled down his vest buttons and escaped from the wrathof a "not-to-be-blarneyed" elder of a certain family across theWalnut. George well knew that should "Uncle Bobby's" ire havebroken upon him, his pelt would have "got hence" muchly.

Cottel Bryant has sold his South Bend possession and gone west with hisbrother Charles to blow up with the country. Cot's removal has broken upone of S. B.'s most genuine bachelor resorts, but may good "Old Virginia"luck attend his efforts just the same.

Mr. Morton, our road overseer, has drained the road near Graves' house.The extreme depth of water in that place had caused some travel over Mr.Broadwell's wheat field. It seems that South Bend roads have been somewhatoverlooked heretofore, but Mr. Morton will change the tune for awhile.

Rudolph Feaster has a very sick pair of jaw-bones. He calls it "mumps,"and thinks it was contracted at a recent "face lickin'" party.What a giveaway it would be should it become known that "evil lurksin every corner." Young man, you should always be careful, and henceforthadvise all your associates to kiss only those who can drink vinegar.

"The spring time has come, gentle Annie," and the little frogson Mr. Harader's side of the river Dee, are emaciated and dejected becauseMr. Harader pays no attention to their continued song of "Fish-way,fish-way." Mr. Harader should make a fish-way if it is possible; ifnot, he should at least pad the lower side of his dam so as to prevent catfishfrom knocking their teeth out on a "dam nuisance."

Scene: Harter's drug store. Enter Mr. Broadwell, who looks at a machinethat is big enough to be a lung tester, but is not a lung tester. Broadwellasks: "What is this?" and Mr. Harter sees that Broadwell wantsto use his lungs for once where it will tell, so Mr. Harter says, "Thatis a lung tester." "Well, I have always wanted to expand myselfon one of them machines," says Broadwell, as he commenced blowing througha tube or hose. Harter watches him blow, and Broadwell looks for some kindof figures to arise somewhere on the machine so that he would know how manypounds he had blown. Harter laughs and says, "Why, you d f, that's a soda fountain." Moral--And Broadwell came straight homeand he was so rattled that he offered to bet that 300 percent of the wheatcrop was frozen. Additional moral--Those Winfield fellows must rememberthat they are "monkeying" with an arm of the law.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The Adams & Westlake gasoline Stove will bury your wife in smilesand straighten the cross eyes of your mother-in-law. Anything under thesun can be cooked with rapidity and perfection. Get one of Horning &Whitney, before the heated season sets in.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Have you seen the latest improvement New Jewell and Adams Westlake gasolinestove for sale by Horning & Whitney? They are perfection and your wifeshould never give the "bald head end of the broom" a minute'srest till you get her one. "Absolutely indispensable in summer"is the verdict of all who have tried them.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The New Jewell gasoline stove, for sale by Horning & Whitney, neverfail to captivate the gentle housewife. It is absolutely safe, convenient,and perfect. No unnecessary heat, and always ready for business. Don't letyour wife enter the summer without one.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Save your wife the affliction of standing over the red hot stove, bybuying her a new Jewell or A. & W. Monarch gasoline stove. Cheap, safe,and unexcelled in convenience. Horning & Whitney have them.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

The New Jewell gasoline stove is the daisy. See it at Horning & Whitney's.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

HOG CHOLERA POWDERS. Put up by the famous veterinarian, Dr. Jas. Haas.Sure cure for hog cholera. Also Dr. Haas' Colic & Epizootic Powdersfor horses, and blackleg cure for cattle. Dr. Haas' skill as a veterinarianis world wide and these medicines are the results of a large experiencein, and close study of those common diseases of domestic animals. They aresure cure. For sale by BROWN & SON, Druggists, Winfield, Kansas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 26, 1885.

Notice is hereby given that the registration roll books of the City ofWinfield will be closed Friday, March 27th, 1885, at 9 o'clock p.m., andremain closed until after the city election to be held in said city April7th, 1885. G. H. Buckman, City Clerk.