ARKANSAS CITY REPUBLICAN, FROM SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1885, THROUGH AUGUST 8, 1885. (2024)

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Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 18, 1885.

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Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 18, 1885.

Council met in adjourned session Monday evening with Mayor Schiffbauer,Councilmen Davis, Dunn, Dean, Thompson, and Hight present; Hill and Baileyabsent.

Bill of Gardener Mott of $40.55 for lumber west bridge, allowed.

Bill of F. Lockley for city printing of $64.95, allowed.

Bill of Howard Bros., of $3.70 for hardware, allowed.

Referred bill of D. W. Ewing of $3 for work, allowed.

Referred bill of G. W. Fisher of $4.50 for work, allowed.

Bill of G. W. Cunningham of $132.95 for hardware referred to water workscommittee.

The Farmers Cooperative Milling Association, we are informed, are runninga petition asking aid for such an enterprise and asking that the councilconsider the propriety of donating a sum of money not over $15,000 for suchan enterprise.

Referred petition of Krebs and others asking for sidewalks on the eastside of block 83 was carried.

Will S. Thompson, of the firm of Ridenour & Thompson, made a requestasking a rebate of part of the amount of occupation tax, which was leftfor a committee to look into and report.

Mr. Hight made a motion that the city attorney, police judge, and streetcommissioner be requested to resign. Mr. Dunn made some remarks on the subjectand seconded Mr. Hight's motion. Remarks were also made by Thompson andDavis. They were followed by Messrs. Stafford, Moore, and Bryant in defenseof themselves. Mr. Hight insisted upon the motion being put with the exceptionof street commissioner, which was not consented to by his second.

The motion was amended that such should be voted on separately; carried.

Mr. Hight called for the yeas and nays for the city attorney to resign.Thompson and Bailey voted the nays and Dean, Dunn, Davis, and Hight votedaffirmatively.

Mr. Hight moved that Police Judge Bryant be requested to resign. Theresult was as follows: Thompson, Dean, and Hight voted affirmatively. Dunnand Davis voted negatively. Bailey did not vote.

Moved that action on street commissioner be indefinitely deferred; carried.

Mayor appointed J. A. Stafford night watch at a salary of $25 per monthand fees.

On motion adjourned until regular meeting.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 18, 1885.

Notice. Sealed proposals will be received at the office of the Clerkof the board of education of the City of Arkansas City, Kansas, until sixo'clock p.m. on the 3rd day of August, 1885, for one janitor for the WestSchool Building; one janitor for the East School Building; bids to be somuch per month for the term. None but the lowest, responsible bid will beaccepted and the Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

July 14, 1885. Alex Wilson, Clerk.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 18, 1885.

Contractors and farmers. Don't buy a Mower or Rake until you see OURW. A. Wood and Esterly, at the Shabby Front. D. L. MEANS.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 18, 1885.

Thursday at the Winfield fair grounds the third and last match game ofbase ball was played. The game was for a purse of $100 a side. Wednesdayevening the Cyclones demanded by telephone that $20 of the gate receiptsbe given to their club and the remainder be divided equally between thecontestants. The Border captain refused to do this and the game was declaredoff. When this news became circulated on our streets, the lovers of thegame were greatly disappointed. Thursday morning the members of the Borderclub came together and decided to go and play the game anyway. At 9 a.m.,the club and a number of friends started for the Hub in carriages. Afterdinner the club sought the fair grounds followed by spectators. The gamecommenced at about 3 p.m., with between 600 and 700 spectators present.The Cyclones went to bat first and scored five runs. This caused a thrillof pleasure to run up the backbone of the denizens of Winfield. The Borderclub went to bat on their half of the first inning and only got two runs.This gave the backers of the Cyclones an impetus to squander their money,and in a very short time a considerable sum of money had been wagered byfriends of the clubs.

The Cyclones on the second inning scored a goose egg, while the Borderclub secured two more tallies than on the second for they succeeded in makingtwo runs. The Border club on the third inning got in two more tallies. TheCyclones were still ahead one tally at the close of the third inning. Onthe fourth inning the Cyclones increased their score one tally and the Borderclub four. Cheer after cheer went up as the Border club rung in their talliesand visitors from Arkansas City yelled themselves hoarse from enthusiasm.On the fifth inning the Cyclones went to bat a little nervous and consequentlywere treated to a goose egg. The Border club got in four tallies on theirhalf of the 5th. Excitement ran higher than ever and the backers of theCyclones began to visibly weaken. The sixth inning the Cyclones securedone tally and the Border club 13. This capped the climax. Parties from ArkansasCity went wild from enthusiasm. The seventh inning the Cyclones scored onetally and the Border club received their first and last goose egg of thegame. The eight and ninth innings the Cyclones received two more beautifulgoose eggs, while the Border club made three runs on the eight and fouron the ninth. This ended the game, the score standing 34 to 10 in favorof the Border club.

The following are the runs and outs made by each member of the two clubs...[SKIPPINGALL BUT NAMES OF PLAYERS].

CYCLONES: Beam, Jones, Gray, Land, Holbrook, McClelland, Smith, McMullen,and Leland.

BORDER CLUB: Godfrey, McGerry, Perryman, Hilliard, Geo. Wilson, Miller,Jos. Wilson, Chas. Wright, and Frank Wright.

The umpire was a brakeman from here. He gave satisfaction, we understand,to both clubs. The Cyclones did poorer playing, not coming up to the gameon the 4th. The Border Club played carefully and surely. The Cyclones triedto twist out, but the Border Club had too firm a grip on them. We suggestthat the Cyclones remodel their name; for instance, say, to the "GentleKansas Zephyrs."

On the third inning O. F. Godfrey got tripped by being hit. Of course,the Border Nine put in a substitute. The Cyclones began to cry, "rats,rats." They thought it was just a come- off to put in a better player.The substitute's name was Roach, and he was about equal to Godfrey. EryMiller did some excellent playing on first base and some heavy batting.Frank Perryman pitched for the Border Nine and the trouble with the Cycloneswas that they were unable to hit his balls. The Border Nine pounded theCyclones' pitcher all to pieces. They changed on the 6th inning, but thisdid not put a stop to the rapid increase of the Border's score. Nearly threeand a half hours were consumed in playing the game.

The man who tended the gate announced only $40.45 receipts. There werefully 600 persons present; 25 cents was the admission price. There is something"rotten in Denmark," and we trust the Cyclones will blow the matterstraight.

Captain Perryman delivered straight, swift balls Thursday. A sore fingerprevented his pitching curves.

Catcher Joe Wilson had a finger partially dislocated. Geo. Wright mendedmatters and Joe went right along.

Miller is immense all around.

Frank Wright is the favorite with the crowd.

Charley Wright can play anywhere. He is a handsome runner.

The new third baseman, McGerry, did not disappoint anyone. He throwsbeautifully.

Godfrey's substitute played center field well.

Charley Hilliard did excellent fielding and base running. He and JoeWilson are the good natured members.

Right fielder Geo. Wilson was not feeling well, but stuck to the work.

The Arkansas City crowd did effective work with the lungs, the Winfieldcrowd with the lower lip.

Dr. J. A. Mitchell, Fred Farrar, F. J. Hess, Will D. Mowry, A. D. Hawk,Frank Grosscup, Jerry Adams, Leavitt Coburn, W. H. Nelson, Dr. Wright, Dr.Geo. Wright, and several other businessmen went up on the 3:05 p.m. trainto see the game.

Joe Finkleburg presented Ery Miller with a $3 hat yesterday morning onaccount of his excellent playing in the game of Thursday. W. D. Mowry presentedhim with a handsome bat. C. C. Sollitt presented Frank Perryman with a batalso, for the good service he rendered.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 18, 1885.

Monday an excursion on the "Kansas Millers" down the Arkansasby the businessmen was originated as the next day's programme. Bright andearly two bus loads of our citizens wended their way to the Harmon's Fordlanding and boarded the steamer. All together there were some 60 passengers.At 8:10 the steamer heaved anchor and in a very few moments we were outof sight of the many spectators who came down to see the excursionists start.We steamed down the river at a lively rate. In twenty minutes we were outof the mouth of the Walnut. On entering the Arkansas the speed of the vesselwas increased and in a few minutes we were steaming along at the rate of18 miles per hour. The passengers gave themselves up entirely to the enjoymentof the trip. All were inclined to be jolly and forget business cares oneday at least. Cracking jokes, perpetrating harmless tricks, enjoying thebeautiful trip down the Rackinsack. The steamer had a canvas awning putup to keep out the scorching rays of the sun, and as the cool breezes cameup the river, one and all felt it was good to be there.

At 9:15 we landed at the Grouse Creek ferry, about 20 miles downstream,to put off some freight which V. M. Ayres had shipped to Gilbert's and Newman'sranches. This was the first consignment of freight to the "Kansas Millers."It consisted of 50 bushels of corn and several hundred weight of flour.The passengers, full of life, took the place of deck hands and soon hadthe cargo landed.

Once more we heaved anchor and steamed down the river about five miles,and landed in a beautiful grove on the Kaw reservation. When the steamerhad been made fast, all clambered ashore, and ran and jumped like schoolboys. While ashore C. A. Burnett took advantage of our absence and in ashort time had spread a picnic lunch. All ate their fill. It was a splendidbill of fare, and Charley and his efficient cook deserve mention for theirefforts to refresh the inner man. After partaking of the bounteous feastand the remnants being cleared away, we steamed up the river for home.

Capt. Moorhead ran the boat across several sand bars to show the passengersthat it was impossible to stick the steel-bottomed steamer. After this hadbeen fully demonstrated, the passengers were called to order by A. V. Alexanderand a meeting was held for the purpose of organizing a stock company tobuild steel-bottomed barges. Mayor Schiffbauer was chosen to preside andN. T. Snyder was chosen to be secretary. Mayor Schiffbauer made a few remarksstating what great advantages Arkansas City would gain by having navigationopened on the Arkansas. He stated that Capt. T. S. Moorhead informed himthat coal could be bought in quantities for $2, and laid down in ArkansasCity so that it could be sold by dealers for $5 or $6 per ton. It was goodcoal, better than that which we had been paying $8 per ton for. Over 12tons of the coal had been burned on the "Kansas Millers" and outof that not a clinker had been found. He spoke also of lumber trade withArkansas. Jim Hill next occupied the attention of the passengers. He wasfollowed by T. S. Moorhead, Dr. Kellogg, Judge McIntire, and several otherswho spoke in glowing terms of the steamer and the navigation of the river.After the question of building barges had been thoroughly discussed, themeeting proceeded to subscribe stock. Shares were taken until over $2,000had been subscribed. The sum needed was $5,000. The meeting adjourned thenuntil 7:30 p.m., when they met in Meigs & Nelson's real estate officeto finish up the $5,000 stock company.

After the adjournment of the meeting, the crowd gave themselves up oncemore to enjoyment. At five o'clock we anchored at Harmon's Ford. Gettingaboard Archie Dunn's busses, we were soon uptown. And thus ended a day ofgreat recreation and profitable pleasure.

The sun was very warm coming upstream, compelling all passengers to seekshady nooks.

Alexander was the story-teller. He was not a successcause audience wentto sleep.

Spencer Bliss, Dr. Evans, and J. W. Millspaugh of Winfield were downand took in the excursion.

Frank Greer, of the Courier, and Prof. B. T. Davis, of the Tribune,were the representa-tives of the Winfield press and were busy all daywith paper and pencil.

The REPUBLICAN office furnished the bill of fare cards.

Searing & Mead, Wood & Bliss, of Winfield, V. M. Ayres and theArkansas City Roller Mill Company compose the navigation company. V. M.Ayres is president and C. H. Searing Secretary. These four milling firms,having practicably demonstrated that the Arkansas is navigable by steamerson the pattern of the "Kansas Millers," and having used $7,000to further the enterprise already, naturally turn to the town most benefittedfor assistance in the furthering of the enterprise. The directors are B.F. Wood, Maj. W. M. Sleeth, and James Hill.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 18, 1885.

If anyone who has any objections to the appropriation made by the councilof $2.50 for hack hire at the time of the drowning of Willie Rike, willapply to me and figure his prorata amount, I will pay him the amount multipliedby 100. I am paying this amount to ascertain the size of some men. Theseremarks are called out owing to statements made by some speakers at the4th ward meeting. I would further state the council paid no one a cent foracting as policeman on the 4th of July grounds, but two of these policemenwere appointed to act in the city on the night of July 4th and were paidtherefor. There is no ordinance prohibiting the shooting of fire-crackerson July 4th. The same will apply to a good many other remarks made.

Public speakers should inform themselves in order to know what they aretalking about.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 18, 1885.

WASHINGTON, July 11. The Secretary of the Interior has sent the followingtelegram to W. A. Towers and Thos. A. Lee, committee for the stock associationat Kansas City, Missouri.

"I have carefully considered your telegram of the 10th inst. Theanimal industry bill prohibits the driving, from one state or territoryto another, of any live stock by any person knowing them to be affectedwith any contagious infections or communicable disease. Owners whose herdsare forcibly stopped in the Indian Territory declare their cattle are notso affected. The people of Texas, Colorado, Missouri, and other states haveequal, if not a greater right, to drive their live stock not infected witha prohibited disease through and over the trails of the Indian Territoryand the neutral strip, as you have to occupy those lands without your leasesfrom the Indian tribes. An inspector has been sent to open and keep openthe trail for the passage of cattle. If the people who are occupying thoselands with their herds continue their forcible obstruction of trails, measureswill be taken to remove them and their herds at once."

The following instructions were also telegraphed to Inspector Armstrongat the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Agency, in the Indian Territory.

"Owners of cattle, driving herds northward through the Indian Territoryand public land strip north of the Pan-handle complain their passage onand over established trails in the vicinity of Ft. Supply is obstructedby parties holding cattle on these lands. Go at once to the origin of thedisturbance and take active measures to open and keep open for all cattlehaving no infectious disease all established trails that may be found closedor obstructed in any way except by proper and competent authority of theUnited States courts having jurisdiction. Notify offenders that their stockwill be removed from the territory at once if they continue the obstructionof established trails." (Signed) L. Q. C. Lamar, Secretary of the Interior.

Similar obstructions of trails under Secretary Teller's administrationlast year existed, and action similar to the instructions contained in theabove order was taken, trails being opened by Inspector Benedict, who leda number of droves over the trail.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 18, 1885.

DODGE CITY, KANSAS, July 11. The situation as between the Northern ranchowners and through Texas drivers remains unchanged. The matter has beenby Commissioner Cook adjourned over until Monday morning, at which timethe case will proceed unless amicable arrangement can be perfected. A verylarge number of cattlemen on both sides of the case are now in the city.Col. J. R. Hallowell and Charles Hatton, United States attorney and assistant,are both here for the government, and Capt. J. G. Waters is pitted againstthem for the Texas drovers on the defense. Fifty-four thousand cattle havebeen stopped on the trail in the Indian Territory and Cherokee Strip. Thematter is assuming colossal proportions. The design of the cattlemen isto exclude all cattle from those parts in Texas liable to communicate Texasfever and the Texas drovers are as persistent in demanding a free passageto market for the cattle of that state. It is expected that something decisivewould have been received from Washington today, but at this hour it hasnot come. The delays to the Texas drovers are costing them at least $1,000per day for the mere detention.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 18, 1885.

KANSAS CITY, July 11. The Times Ft. Leavenworth special says:"Dispatches received today by Adjutant General Martin, from the commandingofficers in the territory, indicate no change in the situation there. Preparationsare actively making in the department and troops will be forwarded speedily.Gen. Schofield directs the movements in the department in the absence ofany regularly assigned commander. President Cleveland's instructions toGen. Sheridan are interpreted by officials here as meaning that the Indiansmust submit peacefully or be summarily dealt with and it is generally believedthey will not yield their arms without bloodshed. Light battery F, Capt.Woodruff, Second Artillery, which won fame during the civil war as Williston'sflying Artillery, has been ordered in readiness to move at any time. Allrecruits at Ft. Riley, of the Fifth cavalry, and men of those troops nowin the field who remained behind on account of lack of order of movementwill be ordered at once to join the regiment. All troops and companies willbe filled to their full strength."

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 18, 1885.

The corn prospect is good. Several farmers who have called on us duringthe last week inform us that they have fields which will average from 59to 65 bushels per acre. The wheat crop is much better than had been expected.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 18, 1885.

Families are leaving Caldwell to be safe in case of an Indian outbreak.Assurances come from the territory that towns in Kansas will be safe fromIndian invasion even if a collision with the revolted Comanches should occur;but some people have an instinctive dislike to taking any chances on theirscalps.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 18, 1885.

Papers every once in a while get off something highly sensational, whichgets one's curiosity aroused and then fails to tell "Who." TheCourier in the following item is guilty.

"A man appeared here yesterday from Arkansas City with froth athis mouth and two navy revolvers in his belt. He was mad, and thirsted forb-l-o-o-d. His wife had run away with a handsomer man. Marshal McFaddaninvited him to lay off his revolvers while under the canopy of our city,which he did. The fellow swore by all that was bad and unholy, that he wouldkill the male eloper the first time he `sot' his eyes on him."

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 18, 1885.

The Lincoln Journal "Topics" says: "A Neosho County,Kansas, woman was insured for the sum of $15,000. When she died the companiesresented the attempt to collect the policy by charging her daughter withmurdering her, and had the girl arrested. If this matter of resisting thepayment of insurance goes much further, there will be nothing more dangerousto leave to one's heirs than a policy."

The "girl" in this case is a woman of mature years, who isa mother and has been a wife. The mother died on Thanksgiving Day in 1884,and the fact that she had been poisoned was discovered by the disintermentof the body and an examination not long after. The arrest of the suspecteddaughter was caused, not by the resentment of the insurance company, butin consequence of finding an indictment in April last. The trial promisesone of the most remarkable in the judicial annals of Kansas. The daughterwas arrested in Winfield. Her name was Frankie Morris.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 18, 1885.

The new postal law provides: "A special stamp of the value of tencents may be issued, which, when attached to a letter in addition to thelawful postage thereon, shall entitle the letter to immediate delivery inany place containing 1,000 population or over, according to the federalcensus, within the carrier limit of any free delivery office, or withinone mile of the post office or any other post office coming within the provisionsof the law which may in like manner be designated as a special deliveryoffice. Such specially stamped letters will be delivered between 7 a.m.and midnight. Messengers for this special delivery will be paid eighty percentof the face value of all the stamps received and recorded in a month, providedthat the aggregate compensation paid to any one person for such servicesshall not exceed thirty dollars per month, and the regulations for the deliveryof these specially stamped letters shall in no way interfere with the promptdelivery of letters as provided by existing law or regulation."

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 18, 1885.

We take the following account of the drowning of a Sumner County citizenat Rock Falls, July 4th, from the daily Wellingtonian.

Several families, instead of spending the Fourth in another way, wentto Rock Falls, Indian Territory, and the men commenced seining above theFalls, and the current, which was very swift, washed them over the fallsinto the deep water, and they went (six in number) swiftly down the stream.

All the men, excepting Grooms, held to the seine, one end of which wasfastened to the shore, and in this manner were swung around to the bankand felt no greater damage than a severe wetting. Grooms, letting loose,was carried down the current a distance of about fifty yards. Those on shorethought he was swimming all right and he was not farther than twenty feetfrom the north bank when someone spoke to him to swim out. This seemed tobewilder him, as he immediately turned and commenced swimming back intothe current. At this time he cried for help, and Mr. William Brand statedat once to the rescue. He succeeded in reaching him without trouble, andtaking him by the hand commenced making good headway for the shore. Brandcame near being exhausted himself, and Grooms seeing this said: "Bill,let me go and swim yourself." This Mr. Brand did and then swam aroundGrooms and tried to push him ashore. They both suddenly sank and their hatsfloated downstream together. Brand came up all right and those on the bankgot a pole and pulled him out. Grooms never rose to the surface again, andhis body, up to this time, has not been found, though all day Sunday therewere more than fifty men looking for the remains.

Deceased leaves a wife and three children and he was highly respected,both as a neighbor and a man, by all who knew him. His home was about halfwaybetween Guelph and South Haven.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 18, 1885.

The Post published an extended interview with Senator Morgan,who has recently returned from a visit of observation from the Indian Territoryin company with Senator Dawes, Ingalls, Jones (of Arkansas), and Maxey,his colleague in the senate committee on Indian affairs. The most interestingportion of the interview is that relating to the Oklahoma situation, andupon that subject the senator expressed himself as follows.

"This Oklahoma question is up and wants to be settled. The negrofreedmen for whom that tract of land in the heart of the Indian territorywas purchased don't seem at all anxious or even willing to settle on it.They prefer to live on portions of land belonging to the Indian tribes wherethey stayed before emancipation, and where they are at present located.

"But, I think the committee will not be in favor of letting theOklahoma boomers seize and monopolize it. I cannot speak positively enoughfor the committee have not had a full conference upon the subject and willnot until the senate meets, when they will hold a conference and reportto the senate the result of their observations and deliberations.

"I would put the Indians in all the territory. There is, to be sure,more land than the Indians require; but I would encourage the concentrationof all the Indians. I would even make it advantageous for the tribes nowlocated in the state of New York and scattered over the continent to migrateto this territory, where they could have the benefit of the good exampleof the five civilized tribes.

"I now am in favor of having Payne's Oklahoma boomers divide theIndian country by taking possession of the very heart of it.

"Then there are the disputes between the Indians and the two railroadsthat run through their territory. The Indians claim rights which the roadswon't admit. The agreement by which the companies secured the permissionof the owners of the soil to run the roads over it are vague, and congresswill be required to step in and settle the dispute.

"I am doubtful as to the validity of the contracts with the Indiansby which the white lessees have recently acquired millions of acres of Indianreservations, and it will be the duty of congress to inquire and determinewhether the lessees have any right to the land.

For myself, I don't see how land reserved by the government for Indianscould be disposed of without the government's consent, and it is a questionalso as to whether the executive could allow such a disposition withoutthe consent of congress."

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 18, 1885.

At the council meeting last Monday evening, Mayor Schiffbauer is reportedas saying by the Traveler that: "The jealousy of a rival attorneyhad instigated a good share of this public odium, and the lies publishedin the REPUBLICAN had proceeded from an outside pen, because there was notbrains enough in that establishment to concoct such fabrications. He cautionedthe council against being influenced by these scurrilous allegations, theybeing prompted by malice and having no foundation in fact. If such chargeswere to influence the council to go back on its officers, he wished it distinctlyunderstood that he had no hand in the business."

The mayor also said "that you might rake H__l over with a fine comband not find as black-hearted an individual as the one who wrote those articlesin the REPUBLICAN."

We wish to say that the junior editor of the REPUBLICAN does all theeditorial work. All the charges we have brought to bear against the citycouncil and attorney were written by that individual. We edit our own paper.We are not influenced by outside talk. We espoused that which we thoughtto be beneficial to the city and tax- payers. We were against that infamouswater works ordinance because we believed it to be a swindle. In an articlewe condemned that ordinance, and showed wherein it was deficient. Lateron we have shown plainly that the city attorney was incompetent to handleour city affairs. The police judge has shown that he is too lax in the managementof his affairs. The council by a majority vote has requested him to resign,also the city attorney. The Council did a good night's work last Mondayin purging. We hope they will continue the purging process until they getall the corruption out. But one thing we are sorry for is that our mayorshould so far forget his dignity as to use profane language in the councilchamber. While we may have been extremely provoking to his side of the question,Mr. Schiffbauer should not be so put out as to lose the dignity which belongsto the head official of the city. It is very unbecoming.

In regard to the articles which we have written, they were founded onfacts. Take the back files of the REPUBLICAN, inquire into the matter, andevery charge we have made is true and can be sustained.

Only one time have we given space to any rumor; that was in regard toa certain officer appointing his brother-in-law to succeed Billy Gray ascity marshal. That brother-in-law has since been appointed night watch ata salary of $25 per month. Hight, Dean, and Davis voted against his appointment.Dunn, Thompson, and Bailey voted for it, and as it was a tie, the mayordecided.

Mr. Schiffbauer informs us that a number of merchants requested the appointment.As they hired one night watch, they felt justified in asking the city toappoint one. But be that as it may, we know now we have three salaried policemenand two night watches.

The REPUBLICAN has a right to criticize the action of any public officer.The people expect us to voice their rights and agitate all questions ofpublic interest.

The muddle which exists in the council now is thrown upon the shouldersof the REPUBLICAN. It was through our agitation of the ineligibility ofthe councilmen and the incompetency of our city attorney, it is claimedby a few, that the present state of affairs exists. We have no apology tooffer. We have done our duty to the taxpayers of Arkansas City. We thoughtthe city attorney was incapable to handle the affairs of Arkansas City correctly.We said so and produced evidence to substantiate what we charged. We feelhighly complimented that the REPUBLICAN has been able to assist in purgingthe city of any incompetent officer. But this is no reason why our mayorshould lose his dignified bearing and go down to the level of a profanecitizen, especially in the council chamber. We leave the matter to be decidedby the taxpayers of Arkansas City. In the language of Jake Hight, let ushave a little more dignity in the council.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 18, 1885.

WICHITA, KANSAS, July 10. The Daily Eagle's special from the IndianTerritory this evening says that the excitement is hourly increasing. TheCheyennes for three or four days have been going on in bands from twentyto fifty. Some of these bands return in a day or two and then go again,so it is impossible to tell how many of them are away or how far they havegone. The bridge across the river between the fort and the agency is beingpushed rapidly.

night before last stopped at the ranch of the C. & A. Cattle Company,having in their possession a herd of stolen mules and horses. They forcedthe ranchmen to get them something to eat. Another band was seen with alot of stock within twenty miles of the camp supply. Stock stolen from thepanhandle of Texas is already making their appearance among the home Indians.No doubt some of these roving bands get so far north as the Kansas line,and their presence gave rise to the late scare, as they appear to go northor northwest from the agency.

Col. Chapman, commander of Fort Supply, accompanied by his interpreter,has arrived at Darlington to act with Commissioner Armstrong. The Indiansare anxious to discover the intentions of the government toward them andexpress more than usual desire for a "big talk."

A courier arrived at Reno Sunday from Silva with a report of a fightbetween the ranchmen at Johnson's, and those of Murray & Wilson's rangeover a burnt steer. One of Johnson's men named Adam Ward was killed. Col.C. B. Campbell of Wichita had his horse shot from under him and severalmen had bullets shot through their clothes. Munford Johnson himself escapedthrough a shower of lead with Winchesters while only two of Johnson's hadsix-shooters, one of whom it is stated was killed. The man killed fell fromhis horse before he had fired a shot.

An Eagle special from the Skeleton Ranche says that the mulesran away with the southbound United States Mail near that station, upsettingthe stage and breaking the leg of E. W. Entz, the driver.

Fourteen coach loads of soldiers, principally of the Eleventh Infantry,passed through Wichita, going to the front, at 2 p.m. In one of the sectionswas a sleeper or special car said to contain Gen. Sheridan, but the trainsdid not stop long enough to gain particulars.

WASHINGTON, July 13. The war department is in receipt of dispatches fromthe Indian territory which say the dissatisfied Indians are becoming quietand there is a favorable outlook for the settlement of the Indian troubles.

KANSAS CITY, July 13. Gen. Sheridan and Gen. Miles passed through thecity tonight from Chicago, en route for Ft. Reno, Indian Territory, by wayof Caldwell, Kansas.

WASHINGTON, JULY 13. Inspector Armstrong has succeeded in carrying outhis instructions to open up the cattle trail through the Indian Territory.He telegraphed Secretary Lamar this morning that all differences betweenthe drovers and ranchmen had been settled and that cattle from Texas arenow moving without obstruction.

WICHITA, KANSAS, July 14. The Eagle's special from Reno reportsthat the Indians are almost frantic in their efforts to discover what thegovernment intends to do. They fear that their plans may be frustrated,although it is is very evident that they really know about all that is goingon about headquarters, knowing that the four companies which went northwere for an escort to General Sheridan.

Reports at Reno say that Magpie and his band are encamped on the oppositebank of the North Fork, and that they had been traveling around and tryingto intimidate the Arapahos. The telegraph operator is in Cantonment.

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Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

J. W. Hutchison & Sons have an elegant new delivery wagon.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

R. E. Grubbs it is putting a complete stock of confections in his fruitstand.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

The Daily Courier suggests that an editorial excursion shouldbe given by the Navigation Company.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Youngheim & Co., are having their store room renovated handsomely.New flooring, fresh painting, etc.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

L. H. Braden sold his interest in the Mammoth Livery Stable, Thursday,to M. E. and L. L. Briggs for $2,000.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

D. Brunswick is selling out his stock of dry goods in the Arcade, preparatoryto quitting business in our city.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

J. W. Hutchison, for a piece of land just north of the city, was offered$300 per acre. He refused and holds the land at $400.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

R. E. Grubbs is buying and selling peaches and all kinds of fruit thisseason. He has already shipped 300 boxes of peaches.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

In our report of the allowances of the city council last week, we madeIvan Robinson's coal bill read $600. It should have been only $6.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Will D. Mowry solicited the base ball purse from the lovers of that gamefor the 4th of July. The Border boys extend Will many thanks.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Capt. Couch, who struck the Oklahoma boomer last week, was arrested andfined $2.50 and costs. The press dispatches were off. He only knocked theman down, breaking his nose.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

The junior editor acknowledges a serenade from some of the boys Mondaynight. As he was not at home that evening, we hope the boys will come again.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

H. H. Perry has leased the bath rooms in the Commercial Block and willrun them in connection with the Leland Hotel. Baths given to both ladiesand gentlemen.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Dr. Houck, of Wichita, was here on the 4th of July. He was one of thedrunken men on our streets that day, which the Eagle tells of. Ourofficers arrested him and he was placed in the jug overnight. He paid hisfine next day to Judge Bryant.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

The REPUBLICAN has frequently wondered why a boating club had never beenformed in Arkansas City for the utilization of the Walnut River south fromthe foot of Depot Street. The river affords splendid advantages for rowing.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Arkansas City, says the Anthony Enterprise, is having a hot timeover the postmastership. Sinnott and Judge McIntire seem to be the keenest,and their anxiety is not at all softened by the uncertainty of the result.You are mistaken, Mr. Enterprise. Sinnott is going to have a walkover.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

The young ladies of Class "No. 5," of the First PresbyterianSabbath School, will give a lawn social and festival at the residence ofMrs. C. R. Sipes on next Wednesday evening, July 22. An interesting programhas been prepared in addition to the supper. All are invited to attend.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

The grove along the banks of the Walnut River below the Harmon Bridgelanding would, if properly cleaned up, afford an elegant park for picnicand excursion gatherings. At the landing, the "Kansas Millers"would be ready to take the picnic parties down the river.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Robt. H. White, the man who was in jail at Winfield for the murder ofhis wife, was discharged from custody Thursday by Justice Snow. The preliminaryexamination failed to show up any convicting evidence. White is still inWinfield.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

The Traveler says prohibition has been a failure and that highlicense is the only method by which the whiskey traffic can be controlled.Gentle folks, stick a peg here. The Traveler is the champion of allevils under its new management. We are not surprised at Bro. Lockley defendinga corrupt council.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Col. Samuel Crocker, editor of the Oklahoma War-Chief and a boomer,was landed in the Winfield jail Thursday. He was arrested along with 20other boomers and he was the only one who gave no bond for their appearanceat Topeka.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

The replevin suit of W. Ward to recover his hogs came off Monday beforeJudge Kreamer. The jury decided that Ward should have his hogs. It seemsalmost useless for Billy Gray to make arrests. If he does make any, theviolators always get free. The REPUBLICAN suggests that that jury be givena leather medal. The case will have a new hearing.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

A concert was given at Highland Hall Tuesday evening by Prof. J. WarrenDuncan's music class at the close of the institute. It consisted of choruses,solos, and duets, which were well rendered. Two recitations were also excellentlywell delivered by Miss Nellie Childers. The concert was not so well attendedas it merited.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

J. W. Henthorn, editor of the Burden Eagle, took three grainsof morphine one day last week to quiet his nerves. Consequence was he camenear dying. Had it not been for the speedy and effective work of physiciansand friends, Bro. Henthorn would not be living to tell how near he cameto dying. The REPUBLICAN congratulates Mr. Henthorn upon his recovery.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Saturday Samuel Watts, of Pleasant Valley Township, met with a severeaccident. He was engaged in threshing for J. L. Snyder. In lowering histhreshing machine, the binder attachment, weighing over 400 pounds, fellon his back. He was picked up by parties present and taken home in a wagon.Mr. Watts, at this writing, is in a bad condition, suffering much pain.The REPUBLICAN gleans from "Mark's" correspondence to the DailyCourier.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Friday evening of last week the citizens of the 4th ward held a massmeeting to consider whether their councilmen were eligible to office. S.C. Lindsay was chosen president and C. T. Atkinson secretary. Fun beganabout 8:30 and at 9 p.m., those in attendance had waxed pretty warm. Speakersfor Davis and Bailey and speakers against them occupied the attention ofthose present. The result was that the meeting adjourned without takingaction upon the matter for which it had been convened. The chair wantedthe question settled then and there, but no one had the nerve to completethe programme. It was a grand and great expulsion of wind and we congratulatethe 4th ward politicians upon their purification. Hurrah for the Cheyenneand Arapahoe district.

P. S. Harmony did not prevail in this meeting. Bros. Atkinson and Klopfneglected to bring along their bottle of soothing syrup.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

T. J. Mitts had Jake Endicott arrested for driving over his boy July4. The action came to trial last Friday before Judge Bryant and the defendantcame out clear.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Billy Gray arrested Ed. Vaughan's team Monday for being hitched in frontof Albert Worthley's residence. Vaughan was taken before Judge Bryant andfined $3 and costs, which amounted to $7.50. With the exception of $1, thecosts were knocked off. If it had been a white man, he could have gottenloose someway. As it was, it was only a poor "nigg*r."

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

The Bantam Hen Society gave their fair in Highland Opera House last Fridayevening. It was a grand success. The little ladies were splendid hostessesand treated their guests right royally. The REPUBLICAN extends thanks tothe little Misses for a treat to ice cream and cake. We were not in attendancebecause the date of the entertainment slipped our memory or we should givethem a more extended notice.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Judge Bonsall last Tuesday took three different pictures of scenes presentedby the businessmen's excursion. The first was of the "Kansas Millers."Next was a scene on the bank down in the territory and the next was at mealtime on board the steamer. Judge has the pictures for sale and those wantingone should call on him.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

DIED. William H. Gray, son of Mrs. A. H. Gray, living in the east partof town, died at his mother's residence last Sunday at 12 o'clock m. Mr.Gray was 30 years, 6 months, and 7 days old, and had been an invalid forseveral years. The cause of his death was dropsy. The funeral took placeat the Baptist Church Monday at 10 o'clock a.m. The services were conductedby Rev. F. L. Walker, assisted by Rev. J. O. Campbell. The remains wereinterred in the Riverview Cemetery.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Rev. Buckner in his sermon last Sunday pronounced quite a eulogy on theREPUBLICAN, saying in connection, that it was the only paper in the citythat had the requisite backbone to stand up for its principles. Receivingcommendations from a minister in the pulpit is greater reward than we everdreamed of. We can stand Mayor Schiffbauer's profane language against usnow with becoming meekness. We prefer the endorsem*nt of the man of Godto that of "his honor."

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

It appears from the following that we are not the only faberizers whodemand reform in our city. "Fritz," a correspondent of the Courier,says: "We have as good a city marshal as there is in the state,but the ignorance and stupidity of the city attorney and the police judgemake justice a myth in our police court. Besides this, there are thingsthat demand the attention of our county officers. No one with good horsesense believes that it is necessary for each one of six or seven drug storesto fill from 300 to 500 statements for intoxicating liquors each month,in order to keep our people in a good state of health. If the druggistsfilling this number of statements don't believe it is actually necessaryfor them to do so, they ought to be `pulled for the violation of the law,'and if they do deem it necessary to dispense that much whiskey, they havenot judgment enough to be trusted with the sale of the liquor and JudgeGans should look after their permits. It is a sad fact that A. C. is fastlosing her fair reputation, and yet her citizens sit quietly by and seethese things go on and multiply under their very noses without so much asmaking an effort to suppress them. These evils should be crushed in theirincipiency and not allowed to go unrestrained until they assume such proportionsthat it will be almost impossible to eradicate them."

[PERSONALS.]

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Lew Northey is on the sick list.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

J. J. Clark went to Winfield Wednesday.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

A. J. Pyburn visited Winfield Monday.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Master Willie Aldridge is very sick.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Abe Rosenfield visited Wellington over Sunday.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Miss Lizzie Wilson went to Winfield Monday to attend normal.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Sept Andrews went over to Wellington Saturday to visit a few days.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

H. M. Bacon and wife returned to their home Thursday at Armstrong, Kansas.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

J. J. Clark came home from the east Tuesday, where he had been to shiphis cattle.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Geo. Heitkam and Guy Sparks took in the ball game at Winfield Thursday.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Edward Allen, a cousin of Dr. J. A. Mitchell, of Warren County, Illinois,is in the city visiting.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Mrs. C. C. Sollitt left Wednesday for a month's visit to Chicago amongrelatives and friends.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

The families of John and Frank Love visited the Territory yesterday ona pleasure trip.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Mrs. J. H. Sparks and children, who have been visiting in Illinois, returnedhome Friday of last week.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

W. R. Owens and family are now living at Higley, Orange County, Florida.He writes for the REPUBLICAN.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

W. S. Upp and family have moved their household effects to rooms overhis store and commenced housekeeping.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Miss Lizzie Gatwood left Thursday for a visit to Topeka, Lawrence, andKansas City. She will be gone several weeks.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

BIRTH. Born to W. R. Smith and wife last Sunday night, a daughter. Weight11 pounds. The REPUBLICAN has not smoked yet.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Joe Hoyt is busily engaged in building a fence around his lot. Joe isvery skillful in that kind of gymnastic exercise.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Miss Annie Meigs no longer furnishes the abstracts of title from herfather's office. Her health will not admit of being housed up so closely.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Mrs. D. S. Obed [? NOT SURE OF LAST NAME], who has been visiting at theresidence of R. E. Grubbs for several days, returned home to CarbondaleThursday. Mrs. Grubbs accompanied her as far as Wichita, where she is payingfriends a visit.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Mr. and Mrs. Will Mowry went to Wichita Monday. Mr. Mowry came home Tuesdaylast, but Mrs. Mowry will visit friends in that city a few weeks.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

T. B. Swain, of the firm of Andrews & Swain, came over from WellingtonMonday to give Sept. Andrews a few days of needed rest at his brother'shome.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Ethel, the little sister of Mrs. Mat Aldridge, was unexpectedly calledto her home at Topeka, last Tuesday, by the death of her sister who residedthere.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Mrs. Allie Bishop came down from Winfield Thursday night and took a pleasuretrip on our new steamboat yesterday. She returned home today.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Mrs. Chas. Schiffbauer, who has been visiting in Kansas City, returnedhome Monday. She was accompanied by Mrs. John Carney, who will visit inthe city for a few weeks.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

L. C. Deets left last Saturday for Cheney to visit friends. From therehe will go to Des Moines, Iowa, where he will accept a position for a wholesalestationery establishment.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Miss Hattie Glotfelter, who has filled Miss Gary's place in the Registeroffice for several months, returned to Arkansas City Saturday last. MissHattie is the daughter of J. L. Glotfelter.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Riley Rogers has gone into the fruit business. He buys and ships allkinds of fruits. Mr. Rogers and family have gone to housekeeping in theA. E. Kirkpatrick property on north 6th street.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Will Mowry, while in Wichita Monday, met Robt. Maxwell. Bob has a lucrativesituation in H. M. Stewart's drug store. He sent the necessary wherewithfor the REPUBLICAN down with Mr. Mowry. The REPUBLICAN and Bob both extendthanks to Will for the accommodation he rendered them.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Wilbur Hill and Bert Van Pane, of Saginaw, Michigan, have been visitingat the residence of C. R. Sipes this week. These gentlemen are cattlemenand were on their way to their ranches near the Sac & Fox agency inthe Territory. The company of which these gentlemen are members have 8,000head of cattle.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Geo. Allen has assumed the charge of the farm department of Meigs &Nelson's real estate agency. We know George to be a rustler and we congratulateMeigs & Nelson on securing as good a man as Mr. Allen to work for them.The painting firm of Allen & Thomas has dissolved, but the businesswill be continued by Mr. Thomas.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

The members of the 4th of July committee are called to meet at the officeof W. D. Kreamer on Saturday evening at 8 p.m. to consider the request ofa large number of donors to the 4th of July fund, and appropriate the surplusto assist the Arkansas Valley Guards in building an armory. A full attendanceof the committee is earnestly requested.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

At the 4th ward indignation meeting last Friday, one of the orators ofthe evening mentioned the fact that a bill of $2.50 had been allowed forhack hire at the time of the drowning of Willie Rike, as an example of theirregular doings of the city council. The hack was ordered and used by thecity marshal, as he had a right to under the circ*mstances. The bill ifit had been presented to the father of the deceased would have been promptlypaid. We venture to say he had no knowledge of the bill until he read ofits allowance in the REPUBLICAN by the council. It was a city bill and thecouncil did right by allowing it. A man must be extremely penurious whowill so degrade himself under such sad circ*mstances as those pertainingto the drowning, as to enter a protest against the paying of a livery billby the city when used by an official in the discharge of his duty. The REPUBLICANregrets to announce the fact that we have a citizen who is so pushed forargument that he advances such a statement in behalf of his cause. If wehad no more fault to find with the city council than that mentioned above,we could conscientiously say, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant.Your acts are righteous, proceed with your good work." We should thinkthat any human being having a particle of common sense would have enoughregard for the feelings of the family of the deceased not to drag the matterup in a public meeting and air it. Such fault-finding with the city councilas this deserves the hearty condemnation of all. As this matter was publishedin one of our city papers and spoken of in a mass meeting, we feel justifiedin condemning it in our columns.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Stacking and plowing is the order of the day.

The shrill whistle of the steam thresher is heard on every hand, andthe farmers smile and think of invention's power.

Some of our young folks, about eight couples, while down at the celebrationin Arkansas City, called at Judge Bonsall's office and ordered one hundredand ninety-two pictures. But when the ambitious "beaux" had countedover their change, they found that they could not pay for a photo apiece;then they kindly asked the privilege of withdrawing their proposition. TheJudge granted their request. The girls, they said, "Ah, well, suchfellows."

They are trying to organize a base ball club at Tannehill.

Mr. W. F. Craddock and Miss Flora Sumpter of Tannehill are attendingthe normal.

Harry Crutcher made a little too much "racket" in J. W. Browning'syard Sunday, hurling his little cuss words at J. H. Watts. He went to WinfieldMonday and paid $24 for his tantrum.

G. R. Teter of Beaver paid $12 fine for boisterous conduct in Winfieldon last Sunday. Two more of our boys are wanted. The boys are not so muchto blame, but the "medicine" they get in Winfield creates a fightingdisposition.

Mr. H. T. Bayless and Ben. Cantrell had a little skirmish in Winfieldon Monday. It seems that Cantrell followed Bayless around and dealt hima terrible blow, whereupon Bayless returned the compliment. The authoritiesappeared on the sceneCantrell took "leg bail." Bayless listenedto the police judge while he defined city lawpaid "His Honor"$12 and returned to Beaver.

"Gov. Wright" and Garnet Burks are studying law, with the assistanceof B. F. Craddock.

Irvin Graves loaned his buggy to the "boys" Sunday, and whenthey returned it, it was found to be in a dilapidated condition.

A wagon load of young bloods, returning from Winfield Saturday evening,had the bottom of their wagon box strewed with beer bottles. We wonder whatdruggist of the "Hub" could tell where they obtained their beer.LAPSUS LINGUAE.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

Last summer during August, G. W. Ramage, of Pleasant Valley Township,was ploughing in a field. In some way he knocked his watch out of his pocketwithout knowing it and it was covered up in the furrow. He did not knowwhere he had dropped the timepiece, so he went on and sowed his wheat crop,cut, and stacked it, and last Friday he commenced breaking up. He kept acareful lookout for his watch and finally turned it up. He brought it totown and had Ridenour & Thompson make needed repairs. It was an openface four ounce case watch with P. S. Bartlett's works. After laying onthe ground for 11 months, the only repair needed was the removal of somerust which accumulated around the main post.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

The REPUBLICAN contains more local news than any paper in Arkansas City.It is the largest paper published in the Terminus. The REPUBLICAN does notpromise its readers a nine-column paper when they subscribe for it and thenreduce it to an eight column because of hard times. We stick to our contract.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

TOPEKA, KANSAS, July 11. The governor today addressed a letter to thesecretary of the interior, protesting against the proposed transfer of theApache Indians from Arizona to "No Man's Land." The governor allowsmany reasons why the transfer would be dangerous to the public peace. Inclosing he says: "I sincerely hope that the suggestion said to havebeen made that the Apaches be transferred to "No Man's Land,"will not be accepted by the authorities of the United States. I protestagainst its acceptance, as an evasion and violation of the clear purposeand spirit of the law of February 17, 1879. I protest against the locationof these lawless and blood-thirsty Indians in a region contiguous to thehomes of thousands of peaceful citizens of the United Statesin a regionfrom whence at any moment they could invade the borders of three statesof the Union, murdering and destroying all in their pathway.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

KANSAS CITY, July 9. The following, which will be published here tomorrow,is the telegram to which Secretary Lamar replied today, as mentioned inthe Washington press dispatches.

Kansas City, July 10. To Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar, Secretary, Department ofInterior, Washington, D. C. The letter of Representative Sayers of Texas,July 2, also the telegrams of Sayers and Governor Ireland of July 3, concerningthe Texas cattle trail obstructions, contain many wrong and misleading statements.The sketch showing the trail is decidedly wrong. The official Cherokee mapmailed you proves this. The herds in question are not above suspicion. Thesecattle do impart fever. The opposition to the passage of the cattle is madesolely from the fear of fever, all charges to the contrary notwithstanding,and can be clearly and satisfactorily proven. The same cattle have beenrepeatedly stopped and turned from passage across Texas by injunctions withinthe state of Texas by Texas citizens. Large numbers of cattle not infectedhave passed without opposition. The trail agreement at the Dallas conventionwas made solely on the part of the Texas men, who were not affected. Thoseon the border were decidedly opposed to it. All offers to establish a trailfor this class of cattle from the south to the north line of the state ofTexas were largely opposed and defeated by Texas men. The trails used heretoforeare cut off at the Kansas line by the quarantine law. The land within thesetrails in the Cherokee Nation, composing nearly 1,000,000 acres, is paidfor by the lessees. By sufferance Texas herds both infected and uninfectedwere allowed to follow these trails heretofore and ranchmen made no objectionto the passage of cattle on these trails. But when attempts are made topush out sideways from these trails, through the pastures, opening new trailsthree to five miles wide, through lands for which rental is paid, and whereno trail ever existed, spreading disease, decided opposition is met. Thatthe opposers are perfectly right cannot be disputed when all of the factsin the case are known clearly. Hundreds of law abiding citizens occupyingthe country in question, with valuable herds representing a lifetime ofsavings, deserve protection more than a few traffickers in infectious cattle.The few northern Colorado speculators bought their Texas cattle, expectingto enter Colorado in direct violation of their own state laws. But the southernColorado men are determined that the law shall be properly enforced, andthe passage of these cattle through Bent and Las Animas prevented. Clearlythen their getting through the Territory will avail nothing. Occupants ofthe country through which it is wanted to pass the infectious cattle havesuffered enormous losses from year to year by Texas fever from the slightcontacts with the before mentioned trails, and hence know full well thewholesale destruction that would result from permitting infectious cattleto pass over their ranges. The charge that the opposers of the passage ofthese cattle are doing so to depreciate prices in order to buy cheaply isa misrepresentation. Not one of them wishes to purchase such cattle. Referenceis made to the recent unanimous opposing of the resolutions by their association.The driving of these cattle from one state or territory to another is apalpable violation of the animal industry law. The occupants of the countryfeel that the attempt of Texas to force infectious cattle upon them, involvinglosses of hundreds of thousands of dollars to themselves and parties throughoutthe entire country without remuneration, is an injustice and an outrageand demands that before the government sanctions it or becomes a party toit a full investigation be made in support of the facts as herein stated.The occupants ask only for a fair hearing. The reasonableness of their demandis shown by the quarantine laws of Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and theterritories north, and also the fact that the same cattle cannot get passagewaythrough the state of Texas, except by railroad.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

KANSAS CITY, July 11. The following was telegraphed the Secretary ofthe Interior tonight.

KANSAS CITY, July 11. HON. L. C. Q. LAMAR, SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT INTERIOR,WASHINGTON, D.C. Your telegram of the 11 last was received. Our messageseems to have misconstrued, and it is manifest that we have unfortunatelyfailed to state the actual situation so as to be understood at Washington.We now wish to state most respectfully, but also most distinctly and positively,that there are and have been no obstructions to the passage of herds overany trails which have ever been used. No objection is made by ranchmen tothe passage of cattle over old trails. Your inspector will not find themopen. We desire to make ourselves clearly understood as stating to you thatthe owners of these infected herds are now attempting to drive and scatterthem through pastures and over ranges where no trails have ever been made.We invite your special attention to this fact which we think cannot havebeen understood by you. Past experience teaches emphatically that this meansthe wholesale destruction of the cattle ranging thereon, and which havebeen placed there with leases made with, at least the tacit approval ofthe government, and in the belief that the established trails for the passageof cattle would continue to be used, and without any apprehension that herdswould attempt to leave such trails and be driven through their pastures.The truth of the statements of this and our first can be established toyour satisfaction, and we respectfully ask you a careful examination ofthem before any summary measures, intimated in your message, be adopted.The herds being driven up are infected and their owners know it, and theirassertions to the contrary are simply pretenses. The experience of yearsmust be ignored to credit such statements.

Committee for the Live Stock Association of southern Colorado, Kansas,Northern Texas, Missouri, and the Indian Territory; representing 2,500,000or 3,000,000 head of

improved American cattle.

Mr. Lee, in an interview tonight, cites in support of the statement madeto Secretary Lamar the resolutions adopted by the various cattle associationsof southern Colorado, Kansas, the Indian Territory, and northern Texas,last spring, all uniting in a determination to prevent the passage of southernTexas cattle over their ranges. He asserts that the only interference whichhas been offered is in preventing infecting cattle from leaving the trailand crossing pastures where there is no trail. He also states that SecretaryLamar's order today is similar to that of Secretary Teller, and the latter'swas an order to open an old trail which had been sometime enclosed withinnumerous fenced pastures, while Secretary Lamar's order is to open a trail,which, as is maintained, the citizens have not attempted to close.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

A gentleman who has been in five tornadoes tells the Kansas City Timeshow a cyclone cloud may be invariably distinguished.

"It seems to me that the people allow themselves to be very easilyfrightened by a little wind," said a well known gentleman yesterday."I know a cyclone is not a thing to be desired," he continued."I have been through five tornadoes and have no wish to experienceanother. But then there is no use getting scared the moment the wind commencesto blow. There are certain ways in which the approach of a cyclone can bediscovered, and people ought to learn how to distinguish this kind of astorm from an ordinary blow."

"Well, what are the distinguishing features?"

"I will tell you. In the first place a cyclone north of the equatoralways comes from the southwest. Then its appearance of a local cloud. Whenyou see the clouds extend from one side of the horizon to the other, youmay know there is no danger of a cyclone. In addition to all this, the temperaturemust be below 70 degrees and the barometer below 29 inches. They never occurin this latitude except in April and May and the 1st part of June. So yousee there is no danger of a cyclone now, although there is every probabilitythat we shall have severe wind storms before the summer is all over."

"What about the theory that cyclones are the result of a meetingbetween two currents of cold air?"

"It is merest nonsense. If this were true, July and August wouldbe the months they would appear, as I have just said, except when the temperatureis down low. The cyclone is nothing more than an electric storm. The earthrefuses to receive the electricity that is constantly being generated andit accumulates in a mass. This is demonstrated by the fact that a cycloneis never attended by violent peals of thunder, which indicates that theelectricity is being taken up by the earth, but instead a sharp cracklingnoise is heard. I have been in five cyclones and have had abundant opportunityfor observing the phenomena. I predicted the approach of the one that passedthrough this city two years ago an hour before it appeared, and hid myselfin a hole in the river bank. The cloud came up from the southwest. An immensepink colored bag descended from the apex of the funnel. When the cyclonestruck the river, it threw the water two hundred feet in the air; the electricitychanging to a cream color. It had a different effect on the trees and shrubberyand seemed to change everything about to a pink color as it cut its waythrough the woods, leaving not a spear of grass standing in its wake. Butthen this has nothing to do with how to tell when a cyclone is approaching.When it comes, it will make its presence known clearly enough. Always lookfor a small cloud in the southwest, a temperature below 70, and a barometerabout 29 inches."

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

The dissatisfaction concerning our city government is not the resultof unfair criticisms of prejudiced newspapers, nor is the dissatisfactionconfined to a few "hot-heads"; but the dissatisfaction is wide-spreadand results from the moral weakness of the city government itselfnot forthe want of confidence in the city government but for the lack of abilityin the city government to inspire confidence.

It is openly confessed the city attorney is incompetent; that the policejudge is incompetent; that the street commissioner and others are incompetent.And, as a result, it follows that the council who appointed the city attorneyare incompetent as a body. The appointment of one incompetent man is a pardonablemistake; but the appointment of the entire complement of incompetent officialsis as unpardonable as it is intolerable.

The incumbent of the police judgeship is a good man, but a poor judge.Gen. Grant was a competent military leader, but a lamentable failure asa financier. Charley as a man and citizen is acceptable, but as a judgeis a failure.

The street commissioner may be a gentleman, but what man with eyes doesnot know that in some wards the streets are not worked at all and in otherswhere the streets are worked, the work is poorly done.

Besides all his favors in the way of hiring help are bestowed upon afew"myself and wife and my son John and his wife." Now the citypays enough to have our work well done. The street commissioner for themonth of June last, notwithstanding it was a wet month and had the usualcomplements of Sabbaths, reported twenty-nine days work done and receivedpay for same. The city council seems disposed to allow any bill so as itcomes from the right direction.

The city was taxed for police service outside of the corporate limitsof the city on the Fourth of July. Not only this pittance is lost, but justthe amount of money which slid out on that desecrated national Sabbath,witness saith not. Now, in addition to the above, how much is the city liablefor by way of unsuccessful litigation. What are our prospects for reformation.True, Mr. Stafford has been sacrificeda jewel removed; but the ring remains.Every official with whom the people are dissatisfied stick where they werestuck, and give no promise of better things. We care not whether our citydads are old or young, handsome or homely, rich or poor, so they own realestate if no more than one poor fifteen dollar lot; so they give us a goodimpartial government. I would suggest, however, the best way to get ridof the rats is to burn the old barn and build a new oneon a site of lawfuleligibility.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

KANSAS CITY, July 15. A telegram from Arkansas City last night says:"Several bands of Cheyenne Indians, numbering from five to fifty, havebeen seen south of the state line and a few have come into town, but notpainted. The local militia has been ordered and ammunition provided them.They are under orders to be ready to move forward at a moment's notice.A courier from the Cheyenne Agency to Arkansas City says the whole tribeis leaving the agency in squads of twenty-five and fifty, and spreadingto the north, east, and west, forcing cattle men to provide them with rations."

The above dispatch is highly sensational. There have been no Cheyennesin this vicinity for six months. The sender of the above evidently saw someKaws who were camped south of town. The militia has not been ordered out.There is not an iota of truth to the above dispatch.

Arkansas City Republican, July 18, 1885.

AD. Don't make the mistake of buying a lot of cheap goods just becausethe price seems small. Many parties are now regretting this fact: IT NEVERPAYS.

Notwithstanding some parties are offering a few articles at a low price,the reliable Dry Goods Establishment of

Continues to meet all competition in our line by selling goods whichcan be Guaranteed to give Satisfaction. Another point is, our stock is LARGE,BRIGHT, CLEAR, AND FRESH.

And our customers are not compelled to select from a refused lot of oddsand ends. We invite a careful inspection. Your friends,

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 25, 1885.

SKIPPED BIG ARTICLE ON FRONT PAGE RE DEATH OF GEN. U. S. GRANT. DETAILSRE GRANT'S SERVICE AS GENERAL AND PRESIDENT ARE GIVEN.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 25, 1885.

The Grant mass meeting of the citizens at Highland Opera House Thursdayevening was well attended. The meeting was called to order by Mayor Schiffbauerand Judge Sumner was chosen chairman and Frederick Lockley secretary. Themeeting was held in respect of the dead hero, Gen. Grant, and to make preparationsfor the observance of his funeral. Remarks were made by Chairman Sumner,Revs. Fleming, Campbell, and Buckner, T. J. Stafford, and others. Committeeswere appointed as follows.

On arrangements: A. J. Pyburn, Cal. Dean, Frederic Lockley, Revs. Campbell,and Buckner, Al. Mowry, and Maj. Sleeth.

On resolutions: Frederic Lockley, Judge McIntire, and Maj. Sleeth.

The G. A. R. appointed the following committee on arrangements, whichunites with the citizen's committee. Dr. C. R. Fowler, J. P. Musselman,Jim Ridenour, S. J. Rice, S. C. Lindsay, D. D. Bishop, and Col. E. Neff.The committee were instructed to meet at the Mayor's office yesterday morningat 9 o'clock and report, and the meeting adjourned.

At 9:30 yesterday Mayor Schiffbauer called the committees to order andpresided over the meeting. R. C. Howard was chosen secretary.

It was moved and seconded that the Opera House be utilized to hold theexercises in, and if that proved too small to accommodate the crowd thatone of the churches of the city be held in reserve, and have memorial exercisesat both places. And also that the military exercises be turned over to theGrand Army.

It was decided not to have an orator of the day, but that each speakerbe limited to ten minutes' time, and that an invitation be extended to theministry of the city and the legal fraternity and others to furnish thesespeeches.

The secretary was requested to inform Prof. J. W. Duncan that he hadbeen selected by the committee to take charge of the singing exercises andthat he also be instructed to extend an invitation to each church choirto join him in the furnishing of the music.

It was thought best to do nothing further until it was ascertained whenthe funeral would occur and see if a proclamation would not be issued directingthe arrangement of the programme either from the president or commander-in-chiefof the Grand Army.

On motion the meeting adjourned to meet at the call of the chairman.

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Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 25, 1885.

Save Labor. GASOLINE AND COAL OIL, Furnished and Delivered -BY- J. W.RUBY.

The delivery wagon will be around MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and SATURDAY.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 25, 1885.

RECAP PUBLICATION NOTICE RE S. M. JARVIS, PLAINTIFF; ALONZO JOHNSON,DAVID C. BEACH, AND W. L. BLAIR DEFENDANTS. PETITION CALLED FOR AUGUST 24,1885, AS DEADLINE TO ANSWER OR FORFEIT ON REAL ESTATE ON WHICH THERE WASA MORTGAGE. A. J. PYBURN, PLAINTIFFS' ATTORNEY.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 25, 1885.

WASHINGTON, July 18. The secretary of the interior has received a numberof tele- grams in regard to the cattle trails through the Indian Territory,some from drovers com- plaining that the trails are still obstructed, andothers from stock growers requesting that cattle be not forced through untiljudicial ascertainment of the rights of the parties to the controversy behad. They also request that a veterinary surgeon be sent to the Indian Terri-tory to examine the condition of the herds. Secretary Lamar today sent thefollowing mes- sage to Indian Inspector Armstrong at the Cheyenne and ArapahoeAgency in the Indian Territory.

"The trail leading from Fort Supply in a northerly direction, toand into the neutral strip, known as Camp Supply trail, must be opened forthe passage of cattle, forcibly stopped, and for other purposes of interstatecommerce. You will confer with Gen. Sheridan, who has instructions of everydate herewith from the war department as to the adoption of measures bestcalculated to effectuate this order."

A telegram was also sent to Towers & Lee, cattlemen at Kansas City,detailing the instructions sent to the inspector and concluding as follows.

"You had a complete remedy. No acts of lawlessness, such as havebeen resorted to as the forcible and unauthorized detention of cattle, willbe tolerated."

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 25, 1885.

CHEYENNE AGENCY, INDIAN TERRITORY, July 18. Gen. Sheridan is now at Ft.Reno making himself familiar with the situation and deciding on a plan ofaction. Very few Indians are about the agency or post now, but have dispersedover the reservation. An Arapahoe (friendly) Indian came in last night withthe news that a large band of Cheyennes had turned their horses into hiscorn field and ruined his corn crop. The war correspondents of the ChicagoTribune and Herald and Kansas City Times are here, andfind by investiga-tion that the trouble at this agency originated long beforethe advent of the present agent or the grass leases, but that the departmentrefused to listen to the reports; and finally, finding it was no use tocomplain, the wrongs were

Had it not been for the timely action of Col. Sumner and his troops,the trouble would have culminated in a massacre. Since then the Indianshave been kept more or less inactive watching the troops stringing in, thenwaiting for Commissioner Armstrong, and finally awaiting the arrival ofGen. Sheridan. Magpie's band, recently raiding out west, had 147 horsesand two large, fine mules when they passed Cantonement coming in. They keptthe north side of the river." [ARTICLE SAID CANTONEMENT!]

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 25, 1885.

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, July 18. Messrs. Towers & Lee, the committeerepresent- ing the anti-Texas cattlemen, sent a dispatch to Secretary Lamartonight, saying that they had used the legal remedy open to them, and thatonly, and it is their intention to press the matter into the courts. Theycharge that the action of the department is such as to invite a violationof the animal industry law by all drovers of infectious Texas cattle, andstate that already the Texas fever is spreading near Cantonment in the neighborhoodof the herds in controversy. In conclusion they say: "We can only regretthat our earnest appeal to you as the high official of the nation, who hadthe power, if he had the will, to protect us in our right, and save us fromfinancial disaster, should have been in vain."

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 25, 1885.

As a mild specimen of the atrocities perpetrated by Indians upon whitesettlers of the west, the Washington correspondent of the CincinnatiGazette relates of the Apaches, against whose transfer from Montanato the Indian Territory Gov. Martin protests.

"These are the cheerful gentlemen who with their knives cut outthe eyeballs of Tom Pugh, of Cincinnati, while he was yet alive, and committedsuch other atrocities upon him that one shrinks in horror from the thoughtof them.

"They are the same pleasant `wards of the government' who hung whitewomen in Lake Valley up by the heels and bored their bodies through withthe linch-pins of the emigrant wagons, heated red hot, after horribly outragingthem and torturing and mutilating their husbands and children before theireyes.

"They are the same jolly companions who cut off the heads of Mrs.Hayes' infant and rolled it down the steep mesa amid yells and dancing beforetaking the mother in hand, who was forced to witness the act, as she hadbeen forced to see the fire burning on the naked, prostrate form of herhusband, with the long, sharp sticks driven into his eyes by the squaws,and hot wedges driven in his toe-nails.

"They are the same estimable citizens who butchered Judge McComas,wife, and son, and have in the last few years, committed many hundred atrocitiesof the kind I have little more than hinted at."

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 25, 1885.

The "Kansas Millers" awakens the echoes near Arkansas City.It is the first steamboat that has ploughed the mad waves and sand barsof the Arkansas as high as Arkansas City. The trip up the river has demonstratedthe fact that the Arkansas is navigable for such steamers as the "KansasMillers." This will open a direct connection south and will greatlybenefit Cowley County. Burden Eagle.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 25, 1885.

The Walnut Valley Times makes the following sensible remarks aboutthe evasion of our assessment laws. "It makes us mad when we thinkof the weakness and evasion of our assessment laws. Our assessment for thepurpose of taxation is a great big lie, told openly, boldly, and unblushingly.Pianos, watches, cattle, horses, hogs, corn, wheat, oats, and our landsand town lots are valued at a half, a third, a quarter, or a tenth of theirreal value, which is the standard the law requires all property to be assessedat. This is not enough. Shares of bank stock, bonds, notes, and mortgages,whose face value is actual value, are rated at taxation 60 percent. Butthe most outrageous and shameless proceeding in this farcical business isthat money itself is listed for taxation at sixty percent. Where and whois the legislative Moses who will lead us out of this? The law and procedureunder it challenge both the good sense and honesty of the state. It's aburning disgrace."

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 25, 1885.

In the closing days of the last session of congress, the president wasauthorized, in his discretion, to appoint a commission to negotiate forthe cession to the United States of the so-called Oklahoma country. Thecommission has not yet been appointed and it is understood that no actionwill be taken in regard to its authorized appointment until after the Augustelection shall have been held by the five civilized nations of the IndianTerritory. In the meanwhile, it is learned that the president and all themembers of the cabinet are in accord that no white settlement shall be permittedon the Oklahoma lands under any circ*mstances, without the consent of theIndians under the terms of the treaty of 1866 and that the whole force ofthe government shall be employed, if necessary, to carry out the guaranteesof that instrument.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 25, 1885.

The Traveler has produced its second article on "CheeseparingEconomy." Like the former it lacks consistency as well as common sense.In speaking of the school board advertising for bids for the janitorshipof the city schools, it says:

"When a private employer wishes to engage a hand, he makes his wantknown, and takes the best suitable man from the applicants for the placeon his agreeing to serve for the price named. But our school trustees resortto a different method. They advertise in a city paper for sealed proposalsfrom those seeking the office, with the eager applicant to name his price,and the award to be given to the lowest responsible bidder, the board reservingthe right to reject any and all bids. We condemn this proceeding as wrongin principle. It is setting one needy man to bid against a host of others,and results in grinding the face of the poor. The service is worth so much,and the trustees, eight in number, as businessmen know what it would be[?cannot read next word?] to the taxpayers to pay for such an office. Theymistake their duty to the public if they suppose it behooves them to runthe wages of their employees down to starvation point, and pauperize thosewhom they have dealings with."

[CHECK TRAVELER TO SEE IF YOU CAN GET MISSING WORD!]

The writer of the above tries to manufacture a mountain out of a molehill.The criticism is unjust. A school board is justified in advertising forbids for the letting of any city work. The school trustees of last yearadvertised for bids for a similar purpose. They also advertised for bidsfor the building of the Central School House. According to the Traveler'stheory, this was all wrong. They were grinding the face of the poor.They should have themselves, being businessmen, made an estimate of thecost and awarded the contract to some individual without regard to competition.Each man who bids for the janitorship of the school buildings well knowswhat he values his own services at, and he makes out his bid accordingly.The board looks over the several bids received and from them it makes aselection. In this manner they get the work done at a reasonable figure.`Tis not the grinding of the poor, but it is a discretion the board shoulduse to keep extortionate wages from being charged. It is just to advertisefor bids to erect a schoolhouse, it is also just to advertise for bids totake care of them. It is evident that the editor of the Traveler isdeficient in business tact, when he tries to knock competition out of businesscircles in this western country and especially our own bright sunny state.That is impossible. The motto of the state is competition.

Arkansas City has had a little experience in the non-bidding plan. Werefer to the action of last year's defunct city council on the water worksquestion. O'Neil came along and told that body he would put in works andthey accepted his proposal without a competitive bid or investigation. Itwas the people's money that had to pay for it and the city dads could affordto spend it freely. If bids had been asked for it would have been "grindingthe face of the poor," you know. Poor O'Neil!

It appears that the editor of the Traveler has been receivinginstructions from certain members of that dead body or he is not aware ofthe meaning of the subject on which he writes. The REPUBLICAN illustratesits idea of "cheeseparing economy" with the following example.

We will suppose that a man is publishing a nine column newspaper; businessgets dull and the publisher immediately reduces his sheet to an eight columnuntil business revives. By this "cheeseparing economy" for a fewweeks the subscribers of the paper are cheated out of four columns of readingmatter, each week, and the publisher violates his contract.

When the council let the city printing a short time ago, they asked forbids from the three printing offices. The Traveler never made mentionof this "grinding of the poor" printers; "of this settingup one needy man against a host of others." It did not dare for fearof decapitation. If the Traveler should happen to open its tiny mouthand whisper "cheeseparing economy" in regard to that matter, itwould offend its "bosses." But we wonder if that sheet won't advocatethe awarding of the janitorship to the 5 percent less man. We believe Bro.Lockley needs company.

In the REPUBLICAN's advocacy of the removal of the ex-city attorney forincompetency, the Traveler for a time did all in its power to thwartour purpose. Upon discovering that it had pursued the wrong course in regardto the matter some weeks ago, it did not have the courage to come out andsay that it was in the wrong; that the editor's credulity had been imposedupon by scheming persons. To be cognizant of a wrong and unwilling to confessit makes a double wrong. The animus of the Traveler is apparent.If it had been selected by the school board to do its advertising, all wouldhave been lovely. As it was not, hence the howl.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 25, 1885.

General Sheridan has induced the Cheyennes to assemble at the agency.They fear that they are to be disarmed and are unanimous in their oppositionto such a procedure. They claim that they paid a big price for their arms,spot cash, and that should the government take their guns and revolvers,it would be months and maybe years before the accounts could be verifiedand properly audited, the appointment made, and the Indian get his moneyback, which money they had got in payment for freighting and selling theirstock.

A Kansas City Times special dispatch from Ft. Reno, Indian Territory,of the 21st inst. says.

"The Arapahoes number 1,500 instead of 2,000; and the Cheyenneswill not show over 3,000 people. The Indians offered to give up all theirarms and horses to the commissioner, who refused them, because if they receivedmoney, they could go to Caldwell and buy more. Agent Dwyer has tenderedhis resignation, claiming that he has not had proper support from the departmentin enforcing the law and order on refractory Indians. Should his resignationbe accepted and a new agent appointed, it is uncertain whether the Indianswould be obedient to his orders or not. The troops are being gradually withdrawnfrom here to their proper stations. Troop I of the Fifth cavalry has goneto Fort Supply, and A of the Fourth infantry for temporary duty at Cantonment.Others will start in a day or two."

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 25, 1885.

After mature consideration the president and cabinet have reached theconclusion that the leases of land in the Indian Territory held by cattlemenare invalid, and it has been determined to take steps to have them set aside.Gen. Sheridan has reported that no permanent settlement of Indian Territorytroubles can be effected while the cattlemen are in possession of the bestlands, and it is the intention of the president to remove the disturbingelement and reserve the territory for the exclusive occupation of the Indians.The method of procedure has not been determined. A presidential proclamationmay be issued, but it is regarded by well informed persons as more probablethat action will be begun in the United States courts of the western districtof Kansas, having jurisdiction over the territory, looking to a declarationof the invalidity of leases.

It was a bad day for the cattlemen when Gen. Sheridan entered the territory,and it will go pretty hard with a good many.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 25, 1885.

ED. REPUBLICAN: In an article written by T. D. Ross, I will say he proveshimself to be a terrible ignoramus or doesn't try to inform himself whenhe says our city dads allowed 29 days work in June when the bid says May,and June also. When he says I hire help on the street, if he has any commonsense, he knows that I have not hired a day's work done this spring. Now,Mr. Ross, you are mad because the street commissioner would not let youput your rotten manure in that fill at west canal bridge to pay your occupationtax and beat the city. Oh, you are a nice man to holler reform. When thestreet commissioner came in your ward, you and yours were the last men tocome out and work or pay, which you have not done yet. You may be an honestman, but things don't look that way to a man up a tree.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 25, 1885.

A Card. To our friends and patrons who so cheerfully assisted us duringour recent fire, we are deeply indebted. The loss, serious as it is, ismuch more easily borne, knowing that we have the sympathy of our friends.KROENERT & AUSTIN.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 25, 1885.

Notice. Any parties who hold bills incurred by the drowning of my son,William, will do me a favor by presenting the bill to me. Respectfully,J. L. RIKE.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 25, 1885.

SKIPPED LETTER LIST IN THIS ISSUE...MIGHTY HARD TO READ ANY OF THOSEPRINTED BY REPUBLICAN...TYPE IF JUST TOO SMALL!

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Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 25, 1885.

A. G. HEITKAM, MERCHANT TAILOR, WILL BE READY FOR BUSINESS IN A FEW DAYSWITH AN ENTIRE NEW STOCK OF FALL AND WINTER WOOLENS.

PRICES LOWER THAN EVER.

WAIT & GET OUR PRICES BEFORE PURCHASING ELSEWHERE.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, July 25, 1885.

H. S. FRINK, CUSTOM TAILOR.

Suits Cut and Made to Order in the Latest Style and at reasonable Prices.

CLEANING, REPAIRING, AND PRESSING

Done in the Neatest Manner.

All work Warranted and Finished when Promised.

Call at "Brunswick's Arcade Clothing House," Commercial Block.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

We would say to the people in general that we are building a new storeroom, and we are going to reduce our stock in the next 30 days to avoidexpense and trouble of moving them. We, therefore, offer you extra inducementsin Hardware of every description, Tinware, and Cooking Stoves. We will sellyou AT COST(for cash). Don't miss this opportunity for bargains. RespectfullyYours, G. W. MILLER & CO.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

LARGE STOCK -OF- GOLD PENS, -AT- E. L. McDOWELL'S.

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Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

R. E. Grubbs has a full stock of fancy goods in his fruit stand.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

Fresh Roasted Coffee every day at Kroenert & Austin's.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

CHEAP MONEY: $200 to $10,000 to loan. MEIGS & NELSON.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

Horse Timers for sale at E. L. McDowell's jewelry establishment.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

We hire the finest line of mowers in the market. Step in and SEE; atthe Shabby Front.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

"Put in water works," should be the cry of everyone. Let ourhome mechanics do the work.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

Geo. Hagar, of West Bolton Township, had a good yield of oats. Off of15 acres he raised 937 bushels.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

The Border nine will play the Wichita base ball club next Monday or Tuesdayif nothing happens to prevent.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

We buy our coffee green; roast it ourselves. Buy and be happy.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

The Winfield Cyclone base ball club has blown itself to pieces again.They were not anxious to tackle the Border club with a just umpire.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

The Lawn Social given by the Busy Workers of the M. E. Sunday schoollast Friday evening was well attended and an enjoyable time was had by all.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

Friday evening of last week the members of the Christian Church helda social at the residence of Rev. Witt. The event was fully appreciatedby those present.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

The Courier remarks that the Cyclone club allowed the Border clubto beat them the last game just to encourage the boys. Pretty good encouragementis $120.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

The Blackberry and Ice Cream social given by the Mite Society at CentralAvenue Hotel last Friday evening was liberally patronized. About twelvedollars were the receipts.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

R. E. Grubbs is buying all the peaches and plums he possibly can. Heshipped 50 boxes of peaches Wednesday to the trading post of Finney, Schiffbauer& Co., at Kaw Agency.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

We are informed that M. N. Sinnott will move his family back here ina few weeks, while he remains in Winfield to attend to his clerical duties.Sharp man is that Sinnott. He knows which is the best town for a post office.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

The Courier started a boom for a Cowley County editorial excursiondown the "Ragin' Rackensack." The REPUBLICAN would like to makean amendment. Why not take in Sedgwick, Butler, Sumner, and Cowley? Havea boat load, you know.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

Frank Austin is in receipt of two letters from Leavenworth officialsstating that they have two fire engines for sale. From the description given,there is a great bargain in them. We will publish the letters in full nextweek. One of the engines can be had for $1,800, with hose cart and hosecomplete.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

Last Monday night between 11 and 12 o'clock the cry of "fire"rang out upon the still night, and the gentle Kansas zephyrs wafted thesound to the ponderous ears of the REPUBLICAN reporter. Springing from ourbed, of downon the floorwe hastily donned the first article we placed ourhands on and started on a dead run for the scene of the conflagration. Wewere among the first to arrive and we found the St. Louis Restaurant andGrimes & Son's Drug Store almost enveloped in flames. The fire had gainedso much headway that it was impossible to put it out.

The predominating idea was to save Mowry & Sollitt's brick drug store,and leave the old frame buildings go. In accordance with the view, the hosewas turned on the Pickle building while the excited populace attempted totear down the building occupied by A. G. Heitkam with his tailoring establishment,but the heat from the burning buildings was so excessive that the crowdturned its efforts to tearing out the Diamond Front building.

The fire spread in both directions and in 20 minutes after the originof the fire, the St. Louis Restaurant, Grimes & Son's Drug Store, Chas.Bundrem's Meat Shop, D. L. Means' Implement House, and O. F. Lang's Restaurantwere in ashes.

By the time the fire had got a good hold on Heitkam's Tailor Shop, theDiamond Front building had been torn out and the brick drug store was saved.

The nine buildings were burned in about one hour and a quarter. Afteronce getting a start, they went as if they had been saturated with coaloil. They were so dry and old that it is a wonder that the fire was notconveyed across the street by the great heat. The wind hardly stirred andby persistent efforts of everyone, the fire did not get into the brick buildings.

The fire originated in the rear of the St. Louis Restaurant. T. S. Moorhead,who rooms over C. R. Sipes' Hardware Store across the street, was sittingin the window of his room and saw the flames burst forth from that establishment.Some say the fire originated in the New York Restaurant, but it is a mistake,for when the REPUBLICAN representative arrived on the scene, this buildinghad not caught fire. No one knows positively how the fire started, but themost probable theory advanced is that a tallow candle had been left burningin the St. Louis Restaurant, sitting on a board; and that the candle burneddown to the board, setting it on fire. The flames were spread by the meltedtallow on the board until they got a good start, and by the time it wasdiscovered, they were past subjection. C. A. Burnett, the proprietor ofthe restaurant, had gone home, but we are informed that one of the employeeswas sitting in the business room asleep in a chair.

D. L. Means occupied the corner room with an implement stock. He carrieda $3,000 stock and had only $1,000 of insurance. James Benedict owned thebuilding and was carrying $500 insurance. His loss is probably in the neighborhoodof $500.

The two next buildings were owned by Dr. J. T. Shepard and were occupiedby Chas. Bundrem with his meat market and Grimes & Son with their drugstock. The doctor had $800 insurance on his buildings. Chas. Bundrem had$600 on his shop fixtures and Grimes & Son $1,500 on their drug stock.Dr. Shepard's loss above insurance was about $600, Mr. Bundrem about $300,and Grimes & Son about $1,300.

The building owned by Mrs. Wm. Benedict was insured for $300. Her losswas about $500 above insurance. C. A. Burnett occupied the building withhis restaurant stock valued by him at $2,500. His insurance was $1,500.

John Gibson occupied the next room with his barber shop; he was insuredfor $350. He saved about half of his fixtures.

The next building was owned by S. B. Pickle and was not insured. O. P.Lang occupied it with his New York Restaurant stock. Mr. Lang carried $500insurance and his loss was $500 above that amount.

The next was the barber shop of Frank Perryman. He saved all of his goods.

The building occupied by A. G. Heitkam was owned by J. H. Sherburne andwas not insured. Mr. Heitkam carried $800 insurance on his own stock. Hisloss was about $400.

Next and last was the Diamond Front, owned by Kroenert & Austin.They carried insurance to the sum of $1,000 on the building and grocerystock. Their loss above insurance was $2,000.

Ivan Robinson's coal scales burned. Loss $200; no insurance.

D. L. Means has resumed business. He is now located in the first buildingwest of his former Shabby Front. See his ad upon the inside of the REPUBLICAN.

Arkansas City Coal Company have commenced business again. Its officeis one block west, where it was located before the fire.

Chas. Bundrem will open his meat market as soon as he can obtain a room.

C. A. Burnett will not open his restaurant again for awhile.

John Gibson will commence barbering as soon as he can get a room.

A. G. Heitkam will be on deck in a few days. He is busy hunting for aroom.

Kroenert & Austin removed the stock saved from the burned DiamondFront to the skating rink room. This firm is fortunate in having two storesin operation. They can go right on and supply their trade without any hesitancy.

Some of the lot owners of the burnt district talk of re-building.

The crowd was bubbling over from excitement. Several parties fastenedropes to the Steadman Building and were pulling it to pieces, but were stoppedby some clearheaded individual.

Ery Miller and C. Mead did good work with the hose in staying the flames.

Grimes & Son's statements were destroyed. We feel sorry for JudgeGans' pocket book this month.

Dave Beatty rushed into his meat shop, rolled out the meat blocks, pitchedthe scales out in the street, carried his ice from the refrigerator intothe street, removed his stock of meat to across the canal, and then carriedthem all back the next morning. Probably Dave was the most excited man intown unless it was H. P. Farrar, who attached a rope to a maple tree andwas trying to pull it out by the roots. He did not succeed.

Charley Hilliard saved an armful of broken ball bats.

Frank Hess had about $6,000 worth of insurance in the "burnt district."Snyder & Hutchison about $2,000; Meigs & Nelson, $850; Collins &Perry, $1,000; and J. L. Howard, $400.

We frequently hear those non-excitable people telling just how they couldhave put out the fire, but they took good care to stand off at a safe distancewhile the fire was raging. It was the excitable people who did the effectivework.

Now is a good time to talk a system of water works. If we must have fires,we must have something to fight them with.

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Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

DIED. Sunday morning one of the most terrible catastrophes that everoccurred in this section took place at Dawson's Ford, fourteen miles northof Winfield, up the Walnut River, in which six persons were drowned. Mr.and Mrs. Yanson Carmen, aged about 60, and their son Jay and his wife, andMr. and Mrs. Wm. Cotes started to cross the Walnut for a plumming expeditionover on the Arkansas River. They were not very familiar with the ford, andtheir being no guide on board, the old gentleman did not discover the riseof four feet in the river during the night. His team, wife, and Mrs. Carmanwere drowned and he barely escaped. Cates' [? FIRST TIME HAD COTES?] wagon,containing four of the party, was some distance behind and when they cameup, they saw no signs of the other party, and supposed they had crossedover, and so they drove in without hesitation. All four perished. The horsesgot loose and swam off. The parties were promising farmers of means andinfluence. But three of the bodies have been recovered.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

J. A. McCormick, the manager of Roberts & Sairs' cattle ranch nearCheyenne Agency was in the city this week. It was reported that Mr. McCormickhad been hung by a vigilance committee because he branded cattle that didnot belong to him. Later on the rumor was circulated that he had been scalpedby the Cheyennes. The appearance of Mr. McCormick on our streets killedboth reports. He says he was riding in and around the Cheyenne camp fora month and he has seen no trouble there. He said the Cheyennes made their"medicine," but that was all. The trouble which has been reportedby the correspondents to newspapers is about all "bosh." We suggestthat the Wichita Eagle's correspondent at Cheyenne Agency be suspended.He is the biggest newspaper liar of the age, if McCormick's report be true.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

Mrs. M. C. Copple is on the sick list.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

S. P. Gould took in the excruciating village of Winfield Monday.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

J. C. Duncan is trying the efficiency of the waters of Geuda Springs.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

Mrs. Wyatt Gooch, who has been visiting in Maine, arrived home Mondaynoon.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

Miss Annie Lowry, of Winfield, is visiting at the residence of Mrs. Wm.Benedict.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

A. A. Newman, wife, and babies left yesterday for a visit in Maine andNew York.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

DIED. H. H. Armstrong, a farmer residing north of town, died at 12 o'clockThursday night.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

Jack Hilliard came home last Saturday from his sea shore visit considerablyimproved in health.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

J. F. Dalzell sold his place just west of town Thursday to Dr. M. B.Vawter. The consideration was $1,850.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

Mrs. E. J. Ingham and little Pearl Snyder left Tuesday afternoon fora visit to Jersey City and Saratoga.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

Jack Thornton is the new barber at Deets' Red Front. He is a dandy. AlexVaughan left for Montana Tuesday.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

County Attorney Asp and Probate Judge Gans have been investigating thesales of intoxicants at Burden this week.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

Mrs. Lafe McLaughlin and son, Fred, returned from Maine last Friday.They had been visiting in that state about a month.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

Miss Emma Wilson returned home yesterday from Americus, this state, whereshe has been visiting relatives for some weeks past.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Arthur W. Clarke will confer a favorto his distressed mother by leaving word at the post office.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

H. C. Deets has added another chair in his barber shop. John Weisenbaughwill superintend it. Mr. Deets now has four chairs in his shop.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

S. F. Davis leaves for a month's trip through the western counties thefirst of next week. He thinks of locating near Englewood, Clark County.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

S. P. Gould went up to Osawatomie the first of the week. Yesterday wesaw him at his post in the book store. We wonder how he escaped?

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

Mr. and Mrs. T. V. McConn left Tuesday afternoon for Bloomfield, Iowa,where they went on a visit. Mrs. J. W. Hutchison accompanied them.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

E. Wilson and wife, of Independence, are visiting in the city at theresidence of Will Moore, the popular groceryman. Mrs. Wilson is a sisterof Will.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

Ed. Gray came up from Osage Agency Monday. He has completed his clericalduties there, and we predict that he will again commence showing the faber.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

D. A. Luse, of Emporia, came down Saturday to visit the Schiffbauer Bros.,and take a ramble in the Territory. Mr. Luse is a prominent merchant inthat city.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

H. P. Goeden and Wm. Hamilton, who went out west and located claims inMeade County near Western Plains some time ago, came in Monday to see thefolks.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

Landon Banta, a young man who has been living at the residence of D.D. Bishop for several months past, returned to his home at Salem, Iowa,Tuesday.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

Dick Watts, who has been clerking in the New York Restaurant for sometime past, returned to his old home in San Francisco, California, today.Mr. Watts is a brother of Thomas Watts of the 4th ward.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

J. P. Musselman has purchased a fine 160 acre farm in Butler County.He traded his city property here for it besides paying some $2,000 differencein cash. The farm is valued at $6,000. We are informed that Mr. Musselmantalks of removing to his purchase, but we hope it is untrue.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

C. B. Wolfe left for San Diego, California, Monday. Mr. Wolfe goes thereon a prospecting tour. His wife is having bad health here, and the physicianrecommended a change of climate. If he procures a situation and the climateis beneficial to his wife's health, southern California will be his futurehome.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

D. Brunswick, of the Arcade clothing house, came over from WellingtonTuesday to insert his advertisem*nt in the REPUBLICAN, telling the peoplethat he is going to sell out and quit business in Arkansas City, as hisbusiness at home demanded all his attention. Mr. Brunswick means businessand he is giving his customers rare bargains in clothing in order to disposeof all of his stock before his lease on his room expires. Call on him.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

Ivan Robinson is no longer the proprietor of the Arkansas City Coal Company'syard. Frick Bros., have purchased Mr. Robinson's business. The office isnow located at the yards one block west of Summit Street on Central Avenue.Messrs. Frick Bros., are thorough businessmen and gentlemen. They requesta share of the patronage in their line of business. They will keep in stockall the time plenty of coal and wood. They also buy grain.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

The Lawn social at the residence of C. R. Sipes last Wednesday eveningwas an enjoyable affair. It was given by the young ladies of Class No. 5of the Presbyterian Sunday school. The young ladies spared no effort tomake the evening pleasant and entertaining for those who attended. Earlyin the evening those present were entertained by music and a recitationby Miss Mary Theaker. Excellent music was furnished by the serenading band,after which ice cream was served to all who desired it. A goodly numberwas present and each one spent a most pleasant evening.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

Edward Grady has sold his lumber business to G. B. Shaw & Co., ofthis place. Mr. Grady will remain in charge of the business he has soldto Messrs. Shaw & Co., to close it out. This insures cheap lumber inorder to close out his stock. Mr. Grady assures us that he will give bargainsto those who come first. He has a large stock to select from, but the lowprices he intends to make on his stock will no doubt make ready sales forall of it.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

Samuel J. Smock, of Vernon Township, was in the city Tuesday. He calledon the REPUBLICAN and in conversation informed us that he would be a candidatefor the office of county clerk, subject to the decision of the RepublicanCounty Nominating Convention. Mr. Smock is an old soldier and has votedwith the Republican party ever since he was old enough.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

Tuesday afternoon we came near having another conflagration. A pile ofstraw and paper lying back of Howard Bros. Hardware Store was set afireby someone throwing a lighted cigar down, and it is supposed to have fallenamong the trash and set it afire. It was extinguished with several bucketsof water before the building caught.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

Grimes & Son will open up their drug store in the room on South SummitStreet formerly occupied by Mrs. J. H. Punshon with her millinery stock.Some of their new drug stock has already arrived.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

A portion of the Border Club went to Geuda Monday and played the nineof that city. The score was 39 to 22 in favor of the Border Nine. Only sevenmen of our club played. No purse was put up.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

Notice. All parties indebted to J. W. Hutchison & Sons are requestedto come in and settle before Aug. 1st. We need money.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

SKIPPED A RESOLUTION, HARD TO READ, BY CRESCENT LODGE NO. 135,

A. F. & A. M., CONCERNING DECEASED MEMBER, H. H. ARMSTRONG BY THECOMMITTEE MEMBERS: JAMES RIDENOUR, F. P. SCHIFFFBAUER, AND J. C. PICKERING.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

A meeting was held in rooms in the Hasie Block Tuesday evening by thoseinterested in the navigation of the Arkansas River; about $1,000 more stockwas subscribed to build Barges. It was determined to build the wooden bargesimmediately and have them carrying freight in 10 or 15 days. Work will commenceas soon as the lumber arrives. The steel barges will be ready for use inabout 60 days or as soon as they can be built. Capt. Moorhead had writtento a boiler firm at Kansas City to send a man here to make estimates. Hecame Thursday. The reading of a letter received by Capt. Moorhead from acivil engineer in the employ of the government created new zeal for theenterprise. The following is an extract.

Mr. T. S. Moorhead, C. E.:

SIR: Referring to your letter of July 11th, I have to inform you thatit is as yet an open question whether improvements should be extended aboveFort Gibson, or not. A survey of the river has been made from Wichita, Kansas,to Fort Gibson, Indian Territory, during the past year. The notes are partiallyworked up in my office and when completed, a study will be made of the riverand report made. Until this is done, it is not deemed advisable to expendany money above Fort Gibson, I. T. Your boat and plans materially alterthe condition of things and it is your privilege to forward to this officesuch facts in regard to your plans for the commerce of the river as youmay think advisable. You could not have arrived at a more opportune time,for in a few weeks I should have been obliged to state that there was littleif any commerce, and of course that would have settled the question of improvement.

Your arrival opens up the subject anew. I know all about the river thatis necessary, so you will do well to collect all the data as to how muchfreight and how many passengers you expect to carry. Please give facts andfigures rather than theories. It seems to me that Kansas needs this southernoutlet, and if the commerce is only sufficient, there is nothing to preventmy recommending improvements as high as Arkansas City, at least. You shouldcollect statistics and have them signed by the leading businessmen of theplace or surrounding section, forward the same to me by September 1st atleast. I trust you will correspond freely with this office as it is my wishto render you all the assistance I legitimately can. I will try to visitArkansas City in the Autumn in order to get better ideas of the needs ofthe section. The great determiner is commerce, present and prospective,however, and your best policy is to collect data along this line.

LATER. Just as we go to press, Maj. Searing comes in and announces thatthe contract has been closed for three steel barges with the Kansas Cityfirm. One barge is to be 16 x 60 feet; and the other two, 12 x 60 feet.They will be done and in use by Sept. 1, 1885. The wooden barges will notbe built.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

John Stafford, the new night watch, made his first arrest Wednesday night.Will Avery got drunk and created a disturbance. Stafford took him in about9 o'clock, rushed up to the Police Judge's office, and sent for Bryant.It was some time before he could be found, and Avery became tired waiting.In order to get away, he leaped from Judge Kreamer's window onto the awningand from there to the hard ground, a distance of about 15 feet. Staffordtook after him, but did not catch him before he jumped. R. E. Grubbs andother bystanders gathered up Avery and took him into Kellogg & Coombs'drug store, where he received treatment for his bruises. His knee was badlyhurt. By the time he had recovered to some extent, Judge Bryant was found.Avery was taken before him and fined $5.50 and costs.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

Bill Cody, "Buffalo Bill," and Dr. Carver are fighting in thecourts of Connecticut to find out which one of them has the exclusive rightof showing "The Wild West" in "the land of steady habits."

As both Bill and the doctor are dead shots, they had better return tothe wild west and fight it out according to the code prevailing in the countrywhich their respective shows are supposed to represent. If they ring thebell simultaneously in a duel of this sort, there would be greater scoutsleft on the plains than either the doctor or "Buffalo Bill," asmuch as they boast of their frontier achievements and make them the mediumof advertising their motley crew of semi-professional showmen. Champion.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

The contract for the building of 325 miles of the much talked of Denver,Memphis & Arizona railroad has been recently let and ratified by theboard of directors. This road, yet without end or beginning proposes someday to run from some point not yet designated, on the east line of the state,through Montgomery, Chautauqua, and Cowley Counties and on to Arizona, orto some convenient stopping place in that neighborhood. Howard Hornet.

[ADS.]

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

Wants to buy 500 resident lots.

Wants to buy 100 business lots.

Wants to buy 15 farms.

Wants to buy a span of good ponies.

Wants to trade a hotel.

Wants to insure your property.

Wants to draw your deeds.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

THE CENTRAL AVENUE HOTEL.

A. E. KIRKPATRICK, Prop.

BEST ACCOMMODATIONS IN THE CITY.

GOOD SAMPLE ROOMS.

Special attention given to the accommodation of the traveling public.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

FIRE! FIRE!

To My Many Patrons:

We wish to thank them cordially for their past favors, and solicitingtheir further patronage, we wish to inform the people of Cowley County,that we SHALL STILL CONTINUE THE BUSINESS, AT THE CORNER OF MAIN STREETAND CENTRAL AVENUE. AND WE SHALL ONLY BE DELAYED FOR A FEW DAYS AT THE FURTHEST.

WISHING TO INCREASE OUR TRADE, WE WILL SELL FOR CASH -AT THE- LOWESTPOSSIBLE FIGURE, So as to make room for our new stock of Implements.

Thanking all of our old customers, we should be pleased to add many newsones to our already long list of old ones, we remain your humble servant,

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

CITY BOOK STORE, Has on hand WORKS OF FICTION, HISTORIES, SCHOOL BOOKS,NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES, ETC. The Only Complete Stationery Furnishers IN ARKANSASCITY. S. P. GOULD, Proprietor.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

The latest cyclone story is from Caldwell, Sumner County, as follows.

"In the cyclone last Thursday, a one-story house was picked up bodily,carried across the road on to another lot, and faced around, fronting thestreet as though it had been built there. A lady sleeping on the lounge,a boy sleeping on a bed, a clock running on a shelf, and a lighted lampon a bracket were undisturbed. A slight jar when the house settled in itsnew location caused the lady to wake up, but she knew nothing about theremoval of the house until next morning. This rather beats the cyclone whichtook the water out of a well sixty- five feet deep and not only carrieda cow up in the air as far as the length of her lariat permitted, and whirledher around there several minutes, but milked her dry before letting herdown safely to earth again." Emporia Republican.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

"President Cleveland did what no other president ever did. It isbarely possible that Lincoln, when president, sent an order directing thecommanding officer of all the armies of the U. S. to a given place for agiven duty; but if he did, we cannot recall it to mind.

"The president, according to the telegram, issued an order directingGen. Sherman to proceed at once to Fort Reno and in person take commandof the few soldiers at that point and in the neighborhood. What there isbehind this new departure in military affairs, we don't know. One thingis certain, average democrats hate Gen. Sheridan as the devil is said tohate holy water, and this order of the president may be for the purposeof humiliating him. On the other hand, it may be that the order was issuedthrough ignorance on the part of the president. He may not know that itis only on paper and technically that he is the commander in chief of thearmy and navy of the United States." Commonwealth.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

We have been informed that Capt. J. B. Nipp will be a candidate for re-electionto the office of county treasurer. We do not propose to run a politicalpaper, or to owe allegiance to any party, but the Eye will standby Capt. Nipp until the sun sets on the election day. He worked hard forDexter's interests when he worked for the success of the D. M. & A.,and the Eye will not forget him on that account. Nipp is our manfor treasurer. The Dexter Eye.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

Council met in regular session last Monday evening. Present: Mayor Schiffbauer,Councilmen Thompson, Dean, Hight, Davis, and Bailey. As Wm. Benedict wasabsent, Frederic Lockley was chosen by the mayor to act in his place.

The allowance of bills was as follows.

County bill of D. G. Lewis of $10 for money advanced to a pauper to goto Missouri, approved.

Bill for packing at water works for 63 cents allowed.

The bill of the Chicago Lumber Company of $25.98 for lumber was referredto finance committee.

Bill of Dr. Reed of $13.75 for professional services to paupers referredto finance committee.

G. A. Druitt made a request that a permit be given him to erect a woodand sheet iron kitchen at the rear of his restaurant two doors south ofWindsor Hotel, and was refused on account of an ordinance prohibiting.

Capt. C. G. Thompson presented a communication from S. S. Stiles, ofParsons, in regard to a scraper which had been sent here for trial lastsummer, asking what the city intended doing with it. It was decided thatMr. Stiles come and get his scraper as it was almost useless to the city.

Cal. Dean desired information in regard to the ordinance appropriating$100 to pay election expenses. Mayor Schiffbauer explained that it was throughan error made by County Clerk Hunt that so large a sum had been appropriatedand that parties who had been paid by the city out of the appropriationhad given orders on the county for what had been paid them and the countywould refund the money to the city. Capt. Hunt told "His Honor"that the city had to stand the expenses of the election, but afterwardsinformed him differently.

Ordinance No. 10 in regard to water works was taken up, discussed, andpassed unanimously.

On motion of C. G. Thompson, Fred. Scott was appointed collector of waterrent.

Resolution in regard to curbing and guttering the principal blocks onSummit street was adopted and ordered published.

Jake Hight brought up the city attorney and police judge matter againand asked what they were going to do in regard to the resolution of a majorityof the council asking them to resign. Both officers refused to accede tothe request of the council. A letter was produced by Mr. Bailey from JudgeTorrance and which fully bears out the REPUBLICAN in its stand to have Mr.Stafford ousted. The letter is as follows.

WINFIELD, KANSAS, July 18, 1885.

H. G. BAILEY, Esq. DEAR SIR: In reply to your inquiries in regard toMr. T. J. Stafford, I make the following statement.

At the January term 1885 of the District Court of this county, Mr. Staffordapplied for admission to the bar. He failed to pass a satisfactory examination,and for that reason was not admitted. Afterwards he went to Topeka and wasadmitted to practice in the supreme court on the representation that hewas a practicing lawyer in the state. Mr. Stafford afterwards at the April1885 term of the District Court of this county asked to be examined againas to his qualifications to be licensed to practice law, and I refused toentertain his application on the ground that he had been admitted to practicelaw in the supreme court on the representation that he was a practicinglawyer in the state, when in fact he had not been licensed to practice law.

Mr. Stafford claimed that he did not make any intentional misstatement,that he was requested by Mr. Sterns, in the clerk's office (an old Iowafriend of his) to apply for admission; that he was not acquainted with thestatute regulating the admission of persons to practice law in the supremecourt; that he told Sterns that he was a practicing lawyer at Arkansas City,but did not tell him that he had been licensed to practice law in the Districtcourt; that Sterns introduced him to Mr. Austin, a young lawyer in the attorneygeneral's office, and that Mr. Austin moved his admission and that he (Stafford)did not know what representations Austin made to the court. Under the circ*mstancesboth the examining committee and myself thought it best that Mr. Staffordshould not be examined at this time. Afterwards Mr. Stafford went to Topekaand was admitted in Judge Guthrie's court on his Iowa certificates, andhis license to practice law by Judge Guthrie authorizes him to practicelaw in all the District and Inferior courts in the state of Kansas. I havehesitated to say anything in regard to this matter although I have beenrequested to do so by Mr. Dean and other parties, lest I might say somethingwhich might be misconstrued to Mr. Stafford's prejudice. I have given youthe facts as I understand them, and leave you and the city council to drawyour own conclusions. Very Respectfully, E. S. TORRANCE.

Mr. Hight made a motion that the office of city attorney be declaredvacant and was seconded by Mr. Bailey. A vote was called for and resultedin Bailey, Hight, Thompson, Davis, and Dean voting that the incumbent stepdown and out; Mr. Stafford voting no.

Motion to adjourn was carried. They will meet next Monday evening inadjourned session.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

Big Dick Hoskins and Dave Lewis were arrested Wednesday night by nightwatch Stafford for using profane language on the street. Yesterday theywere arraigned before Judge Bryant. Hoskins stood trial and fine and costsamounted to $11.65. Lewis also stood trial, but judgment was rendered againsthim before the evidence was all in. While the second witness was testifying,Big Dick pulled a pint flask of whiskey from his pocket and flourished itover his head. This caused a wrangle between the lawyers and Big Dick, andmade the court mad. He slapped the docket books together and said that thetrial was at an end. He fined Lewis $5 and costs. Both of the prisonershad an appeal bond made out. Judge Sumner made out the bond and presentedthe papers to the ex-city attorney, Stafford, for approval. Stafford didnot know whether they were correct or not and asked to be excused a fewmoments. When he returned he became engaged in a quarrel with one of thewitnesses and almost had a go-as-you-please fight. No one was fined forcontempt.

[AD: HEITKAM.]

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

HEITKAM, The Tailor, discounts all others in work and price. OppositeOpera House.

Pants to order ............. $4.00.

Suits to order .............. $4.00. [NOT SURE OF THE AMOUNT?]

Heitkam the Tailor opposite Opera House.

Arkansas City Republican, July 25, 1885.

BRUNSWICK, THE ARCADE CLOTHIER, is Going to Sell out his Entire Stockof Clothing and Furnishing Goods in 60 days. Price not to be considered,anything to make the goods go before our lease is up. A Rare Chance forBargains To All. Such as will not be repeated again in years. Our Pricestell we are selling right along. The Rush Keeps UP and grows LARGER, sodon't wait too long before the assortment is broken. Remember for only SIXTYDAYS and we are gone. Fixtures for sale, 20 tables, Lamps, Stoves, etc.,at

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 1, 1885.

The first moonlight excursion upon the Walnut and Arkansas occurred Mondaynight under the management of Allen Ayers. There were some sixty or seventyaboard. The boat was especially lighted up with Chinese lanterns of manydifferent colors. It started a little before 8 o'clock and got back by 10,having gone down the rivers about ten miles. The extreme beauty of the eveningmade it a very enjoyable affair. The sky was clear. The rising moon floodedthe waters with a broad streak of golden light, and made the scenery lookvery beautiful and picturesque. The Arkansas City String Band furnishedsome of that excellent music for which it is fast becoming famous. One wasinclined to think of the words of Shakespeare.

"How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank,

Here will we sit and let the sounds of music

Creep in our ears. Soft stillness and the night

Become the touches of sweet harmony."

There was a melodeon on board and the ladies occasionally entertainedthe company with a song. Frank Hess, also, paralyzed his listeners by hiswonderful performance upon that instrument.

In order to keep cool a great many crowded near the water wheel, whichserved as a gigantic fan, and now and then they regaled themselves withthe delicious ice cream that was furnished in abundance by Hamilton &Pentecost.

Our space will not permit us to relate all the points of interest duringthat pleasant trip. When the steamer started, it was not covered by canvas,and the people soon become conscious of something falling upon them likefine rain. Imagine the astonishment of the ladies, who wore white dresses,when they found that their clothing was nearly black by being covered withsoot from the smoke stack. Guy Sparks, in his eagerness to study NaturalHistory and obtain a specimen for his museum, quite terrified the ladiesby dropping a large locust in their midst. When the boat neared the landingplace, a painter who was more anxious than the rest to be the first oneto touch his "native land," made a jump for the shore and fellin. He probably thought that the night was too damp to be comfortable. Theguitar players performed with such might and hearty good will that at onetime three out of four instruments were minus E strings. But that difficultywas soon overcome. There was much merry-making, and it is to be hoped thatthere will be more such excursions after night, and that everything willpass off as pleasantly as this, the first moonlight excursion down the Walnutand Arkansas.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 1, 1885.

Our losses are adjusted. We shall still continue business at the oldstand. Prices less than cost. We mean what we say. Come and get your pricesand be satisfied you can purchase more from us than from any other firmin southern Kansas. D. L. MEANS.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 1, 1885.

Some two years ago the lumber firm of A. V. Alexander & Co., locatedtheir yards on South Summit street. This firm is not made up of easterncapitalists, but individuals who reside in our city. They came to ArkansasCity and had such great faith in its future welfare that they invested theirmeans in the lumber business. The genial A. V. Alexander was made the headman in the enterprise. Since entering the business circle of Arkansas City,Mr. Alexander has constantly worked for the up-building of our town. Hepurchased property and has been the cause of the building of a number ofnew residences. In fact, A. V. has invested $2 in real estate where he hasmade $1 in his business. The profits which have been derived from the businessof this lumber firm have been invested in this city. They have not beentaken elsewhere by an eastern monopoly and used to build up some other city.Why? Because A. V. Alexander & Co., are the proprietors of a home institutionand their interests are identical with Arkansas City and not Chicago orKansas City or St. Louis. In the advancement of any cause for the benefitof Arkansas City, this firm has always been a prime mover. Lately Mr. E.Baldwin, an old resident in this vicinity, purchased an interest in theyard. This fact assures us that it is a fixed home institution. After thecut on prices, they met the competition boldly. Lately the freight rateshave been advanced six cents on a hundred east of the Missouri River. Consequently,lumber has gone up that much. We state this because we do not want our readersto think that this lumber firm has pooled with the other two yards. Theyduplicate all prices, and are now selling lumber very cheaply. They do notintend to be run out. While they may not have the capital possessed by certaincorporations, they will continue to sell lumber as long as their means holdout. They are selling dimension lumber below cost and other quality at cost.While they are not making any money at the business, they are determinedto continue.

It remains to be seen now whether the citizens in this vicinity preferto have a firm composed of home men, who will invest the profits of theirbusiness in our city, or those who will take away all the money spent withthem to some other town and state, where it will never do Arkansas Cityone iota of good. Remember that a dollar spent with the firm of A. V. Alexander& Co. for lumber is a dollar spent to improve Arkansas City.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 1, 1885.

Three weeks ago last Monday night, a majority of the city council adopteda resolution asking the then city attorney to resign. At the next meetinghe refused and accordingly the council kicked him out unanimously, everyoneof the councilmen present voting that he should step down and out. Whenrequested to resign, Stafford said he would if Judge Torrance substantiatedthe charges made by the REPUBLICAN about his practicing in the districtcourt. In a letter to H. G. Bailey, Judge Torrance fully confirmed our statements.But still Stafford refused to get out.

About the time Stafford was to be appointed to the office, he went toJake Hight and told him that if he would vote for him, and if after a fairtrial he did not prove satisfactory, he would resign. Hight though him tobe a needy man and aided him with his vote with the above understanding.Hight has frequently asked Stafford to get out, telling him he was givingpoor satisfaction. But the brazen- faced gentleman of "high legal attainments"refused to comply with his word.

A week ago last Monday night, the mayor gave the law by which the attorneycould be fired. The council carried out the instructions given them by "HisHonor," and its action is so recorded with the city clerk. The cityattorney laughed in the face of the councilmen and made light of their actionat the time.

Last Monday night "His Honor" informed the council that theyhad not proceeded correctly and refused to appoint a successor to Stafford.This made matters pretty hot in the council chamber and resulted in an ordinancebeing adopted stopping the ex-city attorney's pay.

We have asked several able lawyers if the act of the council was legal,and was informed that it was. Yet "His Honor" says it is not,when the meeting before he said it was.

We blush for Stafford. He has no shame and we recommend that he be sentto the asylum for the weak-minded at Winfield. It is a disgrace that ourcity councilmen have to be hampered by such a pest. They are united on thequestion of Stafford's removal and their demands should be acceded to andwould if the ex-city attorney had a particle of shame or self-respect.

The councilmen have done their duty and the REPUBLICAN now thinks itis time that the citizens take the matter in hand. The question naturallyarises: Is the city of Arkansas City to be bull-dozed by an incompetent,brazen-faced, would-be city attorneyif he had a sufficient amount of brains?

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 1, 1885.

Council convened last Monday evening in regular adjourned session. MayorSchiffbauer presided. Councilmen Davis, Thompson, Dean, Dunn, Hight, andBailey were present.

The allowance of bills was the first thing on docket.

Bill of Ed Malone of $31.50 for work at engine house, allowed.

Bill of Ivan Robinson of $12.50 for coal, allowed.

Bill of Pat Franey, J. E. Beck, Ed Horn, J. Herbert, and L. S. Brownfor special police service, allowed $5 each.

Referred bill of Chicago Lumber Co., of $25.98 for lumber, allowed.

The several insurance companies through their agents made request thatthe occupation tax affecting insurance companies be reconsidered, and onmotion the same was referred to committee on ordinance.

Petition of Frick Bros., to put up scales on Central Avenue, was readand on motion permission was granted that they be allowed to put them upon Central Avenue one block west of Summit Street.

Petition of Pitts Ellis to put up scales and house on corner of 4th Avenueand Summit Street read, and granted on motion.

Messrs. Moorhead and Danks asked for an appropriation of $200 with whichto make a survey of the city with view of ascertaining best possible placefor obtaining water for water works. Also, make estimate of cost of same,and will put in bids for the building of the same. On motion, this requestwas laid on the table indefinitely.

The street commissioner was instructed to put up hitching posts on eachside of Summit Street, half block each way, from Summit Street on 4th, 5th,and Central Avenues. The posts to be 8 feet apart and connected by ironrods.

On motion the water works ordinance No. 10 was re-considered.

On motion ordinance No. 20, repealing ordinance No. 4, was read and approved.This ordinance makes the salary of ex-city attorney Stafford but 50 centsa year.

On motion of Jake Hight, John Stafford, the night watch, was dismissed.

A. A. Davis moved that J. J. Breene be instructed to remain on the streetuntil midnight. Carried.

On motion of Jake Hight, the street commissioner was instructed to makeout report and hand it in at next meeting.

On motion adjourned.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 1, 1885.

D. L. Means got out replevin papers Monday to recover a wagon which hehad sold to C. D. Bush sometime since taking a chattel mortgage for security.By the purchase Bush became the owner of two wagons, having an old one before.He sold his old wagon and mule team to one Wm. Chancey. Ross Merrick helda mortgage on the team and Bush made the sale subject to the mortgage. Bushloaned his new wagon to Chancey until he could have some repairs made onthe old wagon according to agreement. A short time after the trade had beenconsummated, Bush went to Chancey's house to get his wagon and leave hisold one. Chancey was not at home so the exchange was not effected. A fewdays afterward Chancey sold the new wagon to S. A. D. Searcy without sayinganything in regard to the mortgage or that it belonged to Bush and the muleteam to another party. Chancey went to see Stafford about the sale and actedupon his advice. Frank Thompson went after the wagon Tuesday and Searcyrefused to give it up. Thompson came back, informed Judge Kreamer of thesituation, and got papers for the arrest of Searcy for resisting an officer.He was arrested and taken before the court Tuesday night and was turnedloose upon giving a bond to appear today for trial. This is a very complicatedcase, but it is a clear one of trying to defraud Means and Bush. We areinformed by good authority that Stafford told Chancey he had a right tosell the team and the law could not touch him. This outfit, Stafford, Chancey,and Searcy, should be drummed out of Cowley County. Oh, that grand and gloriouscity attorney, kept in office by "his honor," against the willof the people, because he is a brother of his brother-in-law.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 1, 1885.

The trustees of the Methodist College at Winfield have everything arrangedto commence work on the building as soon as the details of plans and specificationscan be perfected. The plans are taken from the Methodist College at Denver,Colorado, and the college will cost when completed $40,000.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 1, 1885.

At a meeting of the Republican central committee of Cowley County, heldat the office of W. J. Wilson, in Winfield, on Saturday, July 25th, therewere present: J. R. Sumpter, J. B. Graves, W. J. Wilson, A. B. Harold, L.E. Woodin, J. H. Curfman, E. A. Henthorn, J. G. Shreves, J. Mentch, C. A.Peabody, G. H. Buckman, Wm. Wise, H. F. Hornaday, D. C. Stephens, and S.C. Carter.

The meeting was called to order by W. J. Wilson, chairman of the centralcommittee. The secretary being absent, E. A. Henthorn was elected to takehis place. J. R. Sumpter moved to call the county convvention on the lastSaturday in August. E. A. Henthorn moved to amend by calling the conventionfor September the 19th, which motion was adopted. The basis for representativeswas fixed as follows: One delegate for every thirty votes cast for B. W.Perkins in 1881 for congressman, and one for every fraction of fifteen votesand one at large for each township and incorporated city, making the representationas follows.

Beaver, 4; Bolton, 7; Cedar, 5; Creswell and Arkansas City, 21; Dexter,7; Fairview, 4; Harvey, 4; Liberty, 4; Maple, 4; Ninnescah, 5; Omnia, 3;Otter, 4; Pleasant Valley, 4; Richland, 6; Rock 5; Sheridan, 4; Silver Creek,8; Silverdale, 5; Spring Creek, 4; Tisdale, 5; Vernon, 6; Walnut, 7; Windsor,7; Winfield, 18. It was recommended that the primaries be held on Saturday,September 12th, at the usual voting places in the several townships.

The following resolution was unanimously adopted.

WHEREAS, The United States of America has been called upon to mourn theloss of one of her greatest statesmen, patriots, and heroes, in the personof General U. S. Grant. Therefore, be it

Resolved, By the Republican central committee of Cowley County,Kansas, in conven-tion assembled

1st. That we most deeply mourn the loss of our great commander, and wetender to his wife and family our most profound sympathy in their bereavement,and assure them that we believe that every patriotic heart in our countrymourns with them in their loss.

2nd. That we feel proud as American citizens of the fact that we knowthat as long as history lives, as long will the fame and glory of GeneralU. S. Grant live in the hearts and memory of his country.

3rd. That a copy of these resolutions be sent to Mrs. Grant, and thatcopies be furnished the papers of Cowley County for publication.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 1, 1885.

The following points in insurance are given for the benefit of my patrons.

To use gasoline stoves requires a written permit endorsed on the policy.

A mortgage taken on property requires a similar permit.

Sale of property voids a policy, but policy will remain valid if transferredto purchaser.

More than five day's carpenter work on a building voids a policy unlessthe same is endorsed thereon.

Over thirty days' vacancy of a house vitiates a policy unless permissionis endorsed thereon. FRANK J. HESS.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 1, 1885.

To the Editor of the Eagle.

Having returned I will try and fulfill my promise to you. An insightinto the Cheyenne and Arapahoe trouble as I saw them, including all thetime of Sheridan's presence up to the day I left. During the last year IndianInspector Gardner spent considerable time, off and on, at the agency andbecame well posted with the actual feeling among the Cheyennes. In supportof Agent Dwyer's continued calls for military support, Gardner reviewedthe situation and recommended that 3,000 troops be sent there to enforceobedience. This is on record at Washington. Every time the Indians wereguilty, Dwyer would write up the circ*mstance and ask respectfully whetherthe department intended to sustain him, saying it was worse than uselessto make any attempt at punishing crime until he was sure of being sustained,as a failure after such a move would only make matters worse.

You have gone over the ground (in your editorial) of how the presidentordered them disarmedhow Sheridan pigeon-holed the movement; how Dwyer's,Rev. Haury's, Capt. Bennett's, and all the other old officers' reports agreed:"Troops, and disarming, or war." How Sumner, the new commanderand Inspector Armstrong said the same thing upon arrival. The situationwas dangerous, or all of these men would not have kept calling for moretroops. You know how the troops were blockaded by Col. Potter and Gen. Auguruntil raiding parties actually left the agency and the Kansas scare resulted.Then troops commenced to move until 4,000 were in motion. Then Sheridanwas sent, we thought then, to take charge and act. Now, we know better.

It is only too true now that Sheridan was detailed to make the firstmove of the Indian patronage for his party. Sheridan did this because hewas only too glad to get a chance to repay old scores on the Camp Supplycattle herd that the present grass rentals crowded off that reservation.

Sheridan arrived. After he had been there three days, he had had buta short interview with Dwyer, had entirely ignored Sumner, had not allowedeither Ben Clark, post Interpreter, and Geo. and Robert Bent, and Ed. Guerrier,leading agency interpreters, to talk for the agency Indians or for themselves.Instead, he went into caucus with Col. Potter and Interpreter Chapman andCol. Mike Sheridan, and during those three days took Stone Calf, LittleRobe, and other leading discontented Indians, had Chapman represent to themthat they would neither be punished nor disarmed if they would act accordingto instructions, and went into private council with them, allowing themto talk without allowing anybody to be present to hear or dispute theirstatements. (Now read your last two dispatches from their agency givingthe Indian version of that council.)

You can easily see that the Indians were only speaking their little piecesas instructed by Chapman. None of the cattlemen, who have lost thousandsof dollars in cattle killed by these Indians, were allowed to speak. Notan Indian opposed to Stone Calf and Chapman was allowed an audience. Finallywhen the agent protested against such an unheard of state of affairs andasked for a hearing of other Indians, Chapman was allowed to select theIndians who denied in toto all that the others said, and finally in despairthey gave up the situation and left with their case not stated.

Nothing had been done yet when I left to disarm the Indianson the otherhand, 200 of them had been enlisted as scouts and given government armsand ammunition. (What for, I wonder, to kill Kansas settlers?)

Matters culminated in the attempt to count the Cheyennes. The Indianshad been instructed by Agent Dwyer to form their village and take theirstations and remain stationary when counted. They did not wish to be countedand in consequence when the time arrived, they rushed wildly about on foot,in wagons, and on horses, all in confusion, and refused to hear orders orinstructions. Armstrong, who was present and intoxicated, made a beastlyattack upon Agent Dwyer, accusing him of not having control of his Indiansand cursing him in a brutal manner. Dwyer replied in a quiet manner, whatall creation now knows, that the Cheyennes have been beyond control foryears, that he had asked for troops to make them mind, that the troops werehere, but that he had not been sustained. Prominent cattlemen and reportersstanding near told Armstrong they would sustain Dwyer if he would slap Armstrongin the face. A Kansas City Times reporter present afterward attemptedto give the scene to his paper by wire and Gen. Sheridan refused to allowhim to use the wire.

Agent Dwyer has taken steps preparatory to resigning, the whole investigationby Sheridan has been a farce, his information has all been obtained fromstrangers (the Camp Supply outfit); and his recommendations all hatchedout before he left Washington. One thing is apparentthe Indians will notbe disarmed as long as they are in charge of a civilian agent, but the necessitywill be used as a lever to have them turned over from the interior to thewar department.

Of course, it is Dwyer's misfortune that he is a civilian and a republican.If the department would sustain him in this crisis, he would have an afterinfluence with these Indians that would enable him to advance them in oneyear where it would take a new agent (also unsupported) ten years. On theother hand, if turned over to the military, they will be a tribe of drunkards.

Four thousand troops have been put in motion. Kansas has been the subjectof an expensive scare, and immigration has been affected. The general ofthe army has come all the way from Washington, and what is the result. TheIndians are still armed to the teeth, they have ponies that can out travelthe cavalry, and they are able to cross the Kansas line in one night anda day from starting. They can then murder and steal and be back home intwo days. They are lamblike now, in the face of the military; but unrulyand dangerous when they are gone. Instead of their ring leaders being madean example of, they have been elevated above the level of all the whitesand other Indians in the country. Is this the way to control Indians? ToSheol with such a policy!

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 1, 1885.

A correspondent of the Emporia Republican, in writing up the newcounties says:

Englewood, Clarke County, is three miles from the territory, on section36, range 34, township 25. It was laid out by Wichita people, boomed bythe Eagle, and is bolstered by Wichita capital. Mr. G. T. Mickalshas just finished and furnished the finest hotel west of Medicine Lodge,and will run in metropolitan style. The population is about 200. The buildingsbeing erected are of a better class than is usual and the town is improving.

During the Indian scare, not yet quite subsided, the men got fifty riflesand ammunition from Dodge, threw up rifle pits, and determined to "fightit out on this line if it took all summer."

The Fourth was celebrated in style; but at the ball that evening, twocowboys, Kinney and West, shot a young man named Sanders, in cold blood,without cause, and he is nearly dead.

Ashland, the county seat of Clarke, is booming, many new buildings beingerected, and it will be a good town. The merchants are selling stacks ofgoods and are making money.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 1, 1885.

ST. LOUIS, July 4. A meeting of the cattlemen leasing land in the IndianTerritory was held this morning at the rooms of the National Cattle GrowersAssociation to discuss the president's proclamation declaring the Arapahoeand Cheyenne leases void and ordering all cattlemen removed from the reservationwithin forty days. The proclamation was warmly discussed and another meetingwill be held tomorrow, when the committees from Kansas City and St. Josephwill be present, and a course of procedure adopted. The cattlemen claimthat it is impossible to move 300,000 or 400,000 head of cattle inside offorty days, and say they have no place to move to, as all ranges in theTerritory and Texas are now crowded and Kansas and Colorado are quarantinedagainst Texas cattle, while in New Mexico there is a strong public feelingagainst the cattle, even if there were room there. Missouri has about $800,000invested in cattle in the Indian Territory. The St. Louis interest is about$500,000.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 1, 1885.

NOGALES, July 25. It is rumored that the Apaches have surrounded campsin the Canoa mountains. The miners are standing guard night and day. Indiansigns have also been seen within four miles of this place.

TUCSON, ARIZONA, July 24. A letter was received today from Prof. Guezman,dated Pianala, Sonora, Mexico, which says four American miners coming fromSt. Helena mine, were attacked yesterday afternoon by Apaches. One man,named Gillan, was killed and another wounded. The other two succeeded inreaching one of the company's mines, where a party was immediately organizedto go and bring in the bodies. When they reached the spot, they were surprisedto find two dead men. The second was recognized as Pesquiras Major Tomo,of Odejova ranch, who it is supposed was returning home. Gillan was buriedwith military honors, he having been a captain in the Union army.

[DUE TO THE GOVERNOR OF KANSAS BEING ALARMED AT THE THOUGHT THAT THEAPACHES WOULD BE MOVED INTO INDIAN TERRITORY, DECIDED TO COVER THAT TRIBEOF INDIANS A WEE BIT!]

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 1, 1885.

The proclamation of President Cleveland declaring the cattle leases inthe Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservations void, and ordering the cattle removedin forty days, is simply the entering wedge to the general policy of maintainingthe Indian Territory as sacred ground, never to be polluted by the treadof a white man, but to be held for the exclusive isolation and admirationof the half civilized and savage tribes, which use it as a skulking placeto shield them from their crimes and to draw rations from a too generouspeople.

This policy, carried out, amounts to an indefinite postponement of theestablishment of that territory or any part of it by white people, at leastuntil the policy is changed.

The demand of a portion of the Cheyennes and Arapahoes to clear theirreservation of cattlemen who are paying to them large sums of money formerely grazing privileges; and this demand having been considered favorablyby the government, will result in like demands from other tribes, which,taking this as a precedent, must be granted, and thus, in the course ofa short time, this and all other interests of white men will be barred out,and the Indian left monarch of all he surveys, supported by the taxes ofwhite people and encouraged to adhere to his tribal traditions and habits.This policy is not one calculated to force him to habits of industry andthe arts of peace; but on the contrary to reverse the policy of the Republicanparty, which was intended to bring the Indian to see the necessity of learningat the earliest possible day to support himself by the cultivation of thesoilto allot the lands in severalty, in limited quantities, and to openthe remainder to more intelligent cultivation by the law abiding white man,whose example and methods would be daily instruction to his less industriousand less skilled neighbor, who, from necessity, ambition, and pride, wouldsoon become a self-supporting and conscientious citizen, instead of remainingas now, a pauper on the government and a murderer at heart.

Aside from the policy of the administration in throwing the strong armsof the government around these painted savages, the proclamation overridesthe rights of white men, who are there under such authority as the courtshave declared to be legal and binding not only as to the Indians, but asto the government itself, and if the proclamation shall not be modified,great damage must result to a large number of white men whose vast interestshave been assured by former administrations and the Indians themselves.

The interest of the state of Missouri in this matter is estimated tobe about $8,000,000, while that of the citizens of Kansas and Colorado cannotbe much less. From interviews with prominent gentlemen, reported in theKansas City Times, it is stated that at least nineteen-twentiethsof all the Indians on the reservation are in favor of the leases. It givesthem $75,000 to $80,000 a year that is used in buying the necessities oflife.

Now, if the government deprives them of this income, is it prepared tomake it good out of the public treasury? Will the people stand it? On theother hand, can the government be justified in running the business interestsof Missouri and Kansas, in the face of a decision made in the district courtof Columbia at Washington, declaring the lease of the Cheyenne and Arapaho*reservation valid? Does not the government lay itself liable for a claimamounting to millions of dollars in damages if the order of removal be enforced?The cattlemen simply ask for time to lay before the president and cabinettheir side of the question, and then if decided against them, they are perfectlywilling to go.

The action of the government in the order of removal of cattle from thereservation is to be deplored. If enforced, it will be a great injusticeto the men who have invested their money in the cattle business, and asit will affect many Missouri and Kansas parties, the country at large willeventually see the folly of such a course. There are now on the Cheyenneand Arapahoe reservation 150,000 to 200,000 head of cattle, and if it betrue that the government intends forcing them off the ranges, they willhave to be thrown on the market. It requires but little study to see thatsuch a state of affairs would be liable to create a panic, and every farmerwho is fattening a few cattle for the butcher market would realize thathe, too, was a sufferer from this unjust act. Again, the forcing of thatnumber of immature cattle on the market would so cut down what should bethe supply of the next few years that the consumer would necessarily haveto pay a high price for beef.

The lease had been decided a legal one by the United States courts, andit certainly would not be justice to enforce the order and bring ruin onthose who have every dollar invested without having a chance to presenttheir rights in the premises.

Thus it appears from any point which the action of the administrationin the premises can be viewed, it must be regarded as hasty and inconsiderate,unjust to the cattlemen, and against the policy looking to the future openingof the Territory to white settlement or throwing the Indians upon theirown resources. Emporia Republican.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 1, 1885.

"Boss" CLEVELAND's cattle edict shows him up in all his bull-headedness.He has declined to modify the order requesting the cattlemen to remove theirherds in 40 days from Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservation by extending thetime. The cattlemen interested in leases have held meetings and adoptedresolutions asking Cleveland to extend the time until other grazing groundscan be obtained, and he has refused. By this action he does a great injuryto the cattle interests. Parties holding leases have no alternative. Theymust remove their cattle within 40 days, whether or no.

A gentleman residing at Fred, Indian Territory, informs us that cattlemenare down- spirited. They recognize the fact that Kansas has a quarantinelaw, also Colorado and the territory of New Mexico. To Texas and Arizonathey must look for sustenance for their cattle. The available land thatTexas affords are owned by the State University. They would probably accommodateall the cattle in the southern portion of the Territory. But the principalobjection urged is the taking of the cattle to these lands. They would haveto graze on the way and the last herds would have poor pickings.

It is estimated that there are 300,000 head of cattle, worth $8,000,000,that have to be removed. This will cause great hardships. While the REPUBLICANconcedes with the president in his action declaring the cattle leases invalid,yet he should have given the cattlemen sufficient time to go without suchgreat loss.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 1, 1885.

Some time ago Asa Burr purchased four lots of J. C. Topliff, C. M. Scott,F. J. Hess, and T. H. McLaughlin. He paid half cash and gave his note forthe remainder.

Burr was of a business turn of mind and proceeded at once to purchaselumber to build a house, getting it on time. Wednesday he traded the houseto a negro by the name of Banks, who lately moved here from Winfield, forstock. He never told Banks that the property was encumbered in any way exceptby a mortgage of $80. With the exception of the $80, he declared the titleto the property good and gave a warranty deed when he held no deed himself.The same night, succeeding the day of trade, Burr harnessed his team, purchasedprovisions, and skipped.

No one knows in which direction he went, but several men are very anxiousto ascertain his whereabouts. Some think he started for Nebraska, wherehe has a claim; and others believe he went to the northwest part of thestate. He informed a man by the name of Patterson that he intended to burstthe town wide open before he left it.

Banks is the greatest sufferer by Burr's leaving. His house is coveredwith liens, mortgages, etc., to the sum of about $356. Bob Maxey is a sufferer,also Dave Beatty, and quite a number of others. If Burr should be arrested,he will most likely serve a time in the penitentiary if it is proven hewas attempting to defraud the parties interested, and it is the generalbelief he has gone for good.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 1, 1885.

It will be noticed that the county central committee, in its apportionmentof delegates, gives twenty-one to Creswell. This number includes both ArkansasCity and the township of Creswell, the division being left to our committeeman,Maj. L. E. Woodin, who, taking the basis of representation, will probablyallow sixteen to the city and five to the township. This arrangement, wethink, will come nearer making an equitable adjustment of the delegatesthan any otherfour to each city ward, four to the township, and one delegateat large to be taken from the township. There is plenty of time, however,for counsel and interchanging of views, so that all differences may be settledbefore the primaries. The convention will be an exceptionally large one154delegatesbut will doubtless work good in doing away with the possibilityof any one candidate "packing it," or having a "walk away."

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 1, 1885.

J. C. Topliff had to go and purchase a staple, padlock and chain, andlock the office door of the room formally occupied by ex-city attorney Staffordin order to keep him out of the room. Some three months ago, Stafford wassued by Topliff for rent. About the time the action was to have come totrial, Stafford moved out of the room, leaving "Top" to get hisrent the best he could. When he moved out, Stafford failed to give up thekey and since has been seen to go to the room, unlock the door, and go in.What for we can't say. Topliff says he has asked Stafford to turn over thekey and that he will keep him out if he has to stand guard at the door witha rifle. Correct, Commodore.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 1, 1885.

Mrs. Coulter, wife of Jas. Coulter, who resides on the Arkansas in BeaverTownship, was brought to town for the purpose of undergoing a surgical operationfor the removing of a cancer. The operation was performed at the residenceof Dr. Fleming by Dr. Wright, assisted by Drs. Fleming, Pugh, and Tandy.The entire right breast was removed. At this writing Mrs. Coulter appearsto be doing finely and in a fair way to recovery. Winfield Tribune.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 1, 1885.

Tuesday morning the Border nine went to Wichita to play a match gameof base ball. The game began at about 3 o'clock p.m., and was ended in threehours.

BORDER CLUB MEMBERS: Perryman, Wilson, Hilliard, Wright, Cornell, J.Wilson, Miller, F. Wright, Jones.

WICHITA CLUB: Ellsworth, E. Jetty, N. Jetty, Sumner, Dean, Kilner, Bridwell,Walker, McCord.

BORDER CLUB: RUNS 17; OUTS 27.

WICHITA CLUB: RUNS 18; OUTS 27.

The Wichita Eagle says it was the best game in southern Kansas.Jones, formerly of Winfield Cyclones, and Cornell are new recruits and doeffective work. From Wichita the boys went to Wellington and beat the ballclub of that city so badly that it has since disbanded.

The Border club made 24 runs and the Wellington nine only 3.

A portion of the Border club at Wichita were disgruntled because of somechanges made in the position of the players. Since coming home the boyshave healed the breach and they are ready and willing to play any nine inthe state of Kansas.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 1, 1885.

George Rembaugh, of the Winfield Telegram, plucks the choicestDemocratic plum in Cowley County, having been awarded the Winfield postoffice. The fates (or furies) waited on George some four or five years ago,pointing out the immense pickings in Democratic pasture grounds, and Georgelistened patiently and acted accordingly. If the "old timers,"whose sprouting hopes have been systematically and regularly nipped forthe past twenty- four years, can stand it, we certainly can. And then George,despite his short-lived "Democracy," retains enough of his Republicanismto be universally considered a first-rate fellow, and in every way worthyof his reward.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 1, 1885.

The Traveler turns up its nose because Jim Hill was in the cityMonday evening and failed to attend council meeting. One councilman fromthe first ward is sufficient, it seems. Jake Hight watches with the eyeof an eagle over the city affairs; consequently, he keeps certain partiescringing inwardly for fear he will open fire on them. The REPUBLICAN remembersthe fact that Hill was elected against his will and that he told his constituentshe would be unable to attend to the duties of councilman as it should be.But this does not release him from his obligation to his constituents toattend when in the city. We hope to see Mr. Hill in attendance hereafterwhen in the city.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 1, 1885.

Certain facts have come to light recently that show that Beam, the Cyclonepitcher in the late contest with the Arkansas City men, threw the game for$50. Beam, we are told, admits in a letter written by him in Illinois (wherehe now is) to relatives in Vernon Township. The truth of this admissionis attested by various other facts, among them that Beam told a friend inthis city not to bet a cent on the boys. As we understand it, the Borderclub had no hand in the contemptible proceedings, but was the work of aparty who had some $600 to put up on the Borders. Winfield Telegram.

[PERSONALS.]

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Ponies for sale by Al. Woolsey.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Rain would be a welcome visitor.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Twenty-six head of good gentle ponies for sale by Al. Woolsey.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

An awning is being erected in front of the Commercial and Hasie Blocks.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Grubb's made a shipment of peaches and watermelons to Maine yesterday.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

We have the finest line of mowers in the market. Stop in and SEE at theShabby Front.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Arkansas City Coal Company have Weir City Nut coal. Just what the farmerswant for threshing.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

The Ashland base ball club has challenged the Border club for a matchgame during the month of August.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

R. E. Grubbs shipped 125 boxes of peaches to Finney, Schiffbauer &Co., down at Gray Horse, Indian Territory, last Thursday.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

The case of the A. T. & S. F. Railway against Lou Northey was dismissedat the request of the prosecuting witness by Judge Kreamer.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

W. Ward's hog case came up before Judge Kreamer again Tuesday. The decisionwas reversed and is for the city. An appeal has been taken.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Arkansas City Coal Company have shelled corn. If you want any for yourstock, call at their yard on Central Avenue, one block west of Main street.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

The two Chicago lumber yards have combined. Also, the two belonging toShaw & Co. This is a new kind of pool, and price of lumber has goneup.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

A. G. Heitkam, of the burnt district, has rented a basem*nt room beneathA. A. Newman & Co.'s store and has opened up for business. Call on Mr.Heitkam at his new room.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Monday there were eight Cheyennes in town. They said that the white manhad lied on them, that their hearts were all right, and not one of themhad come into the state with hostile intentions.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

This week the Johnson Loan and Trust Company change their ad. Read itand then call at the office and interview the affable A. D. Prescott. Thiscompany gives superior inducements to money borrowers.

H. P. Farrar, Pres.

J. L. Huey, Vice-Pres.

A. D. Prescott, Sec.

J. P. Johnson, Treas.

A. B. Johnson, Gen. Manager.

Money to Loan on improved farms at the lowest rates.

We Loan our own Money. No delay.

Money furnished as soon as property and title are found satisfactory.

All business pertaining to making or paying off a Loan transacted atour office in the First National Bank Building.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

The lumber yard propelled by W. F. Aldridge has been swallowed up bythe Chicago Lumber Co.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

The pupils of the Christian Sunday school are holding a picnic todayin the grove at Harmon's Bridge Landing.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Bear in mind that Al. Woolsey has for sale yet 26 head of good, gentle,broken ponies. He will trade for mares and mules.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

The Eagle says the excursion from Wichita to this city, August6, will be the biggest blow-out of the season and it may be impossible toobtain enough coaches to carry the crowd here.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Our friend across the way failed to learn that the Republican CountyCentral Committee had an important meeting last Saturday. As usual, hisreaders will get their news from the REPUBLICAN.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

One of our city officials has on his docket book the following standingmonuments of his learning. He releases a prisoner from "cusidity withcause of action," and puts another man in the "calibuse"until his fine is paid.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Owing to the extreme hot weather, probably, the political pot of Cowleyhas begun to boil rather early this year. Better wait awhile yet, good friends.You may get out of wind before time for the heavy blowing to commence.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Collins & Perry have dissolved partnership. J. M. Collins has removedhis office to that of J. L. Howard. These gentlemen have entered into apartnership, and will make the real estate business boom under the firmname of Howard & Collins.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

M. Sawyer was arrested by Billy Gray Wednesday for erecting a frame buildingwithin the fire limits. He was taken before Judge Bryant, but the Mayorordered a stay of proceeding because Sawyer agreed not to go any furtherwith the building.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

I. R. Deming & Son have sold their grocery stock to J. G. Carter,who lately came here from New Salem. Mr. Deming retires from business becausehis wife is having ill health, and is desirous of trying a change of climatefor her benefit. Snyder & Hutchison made the sale.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Tomorrow night at the Baptist Church, union services will be held bythe churches of the city for the purpose of taking steps towards makinga reform in the morals of our city. Judge A. J. Pyburn, Wm. Jenkins, andthe minister will make addresses and furnish food for thought. All are invited.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Dr. A. J. Chapel and Herman Godehard were arrested Thursday because theywere not complying with the ordinance in regard to the erection of partitionwalls. Herman was turned loose because he commenced his building beforethe ordinance was passed. Dr. Chapel's trial comes off today before JudgeBryant.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

The "Kansas Millers" took a load of freight down to PawneeAgency yesterday, stopping at intermediate points. Searing & Mead sentflour; V. M. Ayres, flour and corn; and the Roller Mill Co., flour. Maj.C. H. Searing and wife, Mrs. H. Clevinger and little boy went as passengers.The boat will return in time to take care of the Wichita excursion.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

About 150 excursionists composed of the elite of Winfield came down Tuesdayto enjoy a pleasure ride on the "Kansas Millers." The steamerheaved anchor at 2 p.m. Everything went lovely until the boat started toreturn, when the pilot ran it on a sand bar. This happened twice. The boatdid not get back to pier No. 1 until 4:30 a.m. All say that it was throughthe ignorance of the pilot that the boat became stranded. The fat man ofthe Courier was aboard and he was too heavy a burden. We acknowledgea call from Mr. Leavitt. He is a pleasant gentleman and we hope he willcome again. A pleasant time was had by the excursionists with the exceptionof sleeping on the bar all night.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Judge Bonsall presents the REPUBLICAN with two splendid views this week.One was taken at the west bridge at the time the Arkansas was on such ahigh, and the other is of the Hasie and Commercial blocks.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Last Friday John Dee came driving into town in great haste. He was lookingfor Dr. A. J. Chapel. While Mr. Dee was at work, he was bitten by a rattlesnake.The Doctor loaded him up with "tamarack," and Mr. Dee is now allright. The snake died.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Secretary Lamar has begun to wade into the Indian Territory in good earnest.Last Saturday he kindly supplied Osage, Kaw, Poncas, Pawnee, Otoe, Kiowa,Comanche, and Wichita Agencies with new agents. Our sympathies are extendedto the unfortunate- successful applicants. The sun of their prosperity hasset.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

A majority of the city council, of Arkansas City, asked City AttorneyStafford to resign. He refused. At the last meeting of the fathers, a resolutionwas adopted removing him for incompetency. Yet Mr. Stafford says he willswing to the office. This is adamantine cheek "that would put the governmentmule to shame." Winfield Courier.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

The Farmers Milling Association ask Arkansas City to put up $10,000 inaid of the enterprise. The city council of that thriving town would no doubtgladly compromise by presenting the Association their city attorney in thehopes that he might fall into a hopper with fatal results. Stafford seemsto be a genuine "Old man of the sea." Winfield Telegram.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Dr. S. S. Crabtree, of New Salem, in this county, who was arrested lastweek for burning the post office at that place, was tried at Winfield lastTuesday. After two days of trial, the accused was acquitted amid the cheersfrom many friends. He was arrested on a U. S. Warrant and at his trial wasexonerated from the crime of which he was charged. Dr. Crabtree is a respectedcitizen of New Salem.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Geo. A. Druitt has opened his restaurant. He propels it on the Europeanstyle. Last Saturday he gave his opening dinner. About 50 guests were present,composed principally of businessmen. Mr. Druitt has refitted the room, whichwas formerly occupied by Van Sickle & Pentecost, until you would hardlyrecognize it. Mr. Druitt is a good restauranteur. See his card elsewherein the REPUBLICAN.

AD. European Restaurant, Geo. A. Druitt, Proprietor.

Five Doors South of Post Office, Arkansas City, Kansas.

Regular Meals 25 cents and at all Hours.

Headquarters for ICE CREAM, Lemonade, Cigars, Tobacco, Confections, etc.

Best of accommodations furnished customers. Give me a call.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

The Osage Indians will receive a payment of four dollars per capita today,being the receipts from cattle leases on their reservation. As an instanceof the advancement of this tribe, we cite the fact that this payment isconducted wholly among themselvesthe making of the payrolls and handlingof the money being done by their secretary and treasurer, with no assistancefrom the agent other than advice. At the June payment the Osages numbered1,551.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

The excursion to Arkansas City will be a success. Sam Woolard and FredSweet have returned from Arkansas City, where they have made all the arrangementsfor a first-class time. They have secured the use of a beautiful grove,near the railroad, and have chartered the steamboat for the day. The arrangementsfor this excursion are more complete than any that ever left the city. Anybodythat fails to take it in will regret it. Wichita Eagle.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Jas. Hill came in from St. Louis Monday night. He reports the K. C. &S. W., as graded to within nine miles of Winfield, and the track laid towithin twenty-two miles of the city of mud and dust. But for the bridgesto be built, the Terminus would have the new road in sixty days. The K.C. & S. W. Company are building four new towns along their route, allgood towns, too, and they really think they can improve our county seat'sprospects.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Frank Hess is again in the toils of the city. He was arrested Wednesdayfor making connections with the water works and doing some repairing. Aswe are informed, J. W. French is the owner of the property where the troubleoccurred. He owns the pipes which are on the premises carrying the waterinto the house. The residence was vacant, the family occupying it havingmoved out a short time since. People got to going there and taking waterwithout the consent of the agent or owner, and the water works engineerwent to the house and cut off the supply, going on the premises to do it,and breaking Mr. French's connection instead of severing the city's pipesfrom those of Mr. French. Mr. Hess, as agent, sent a man to repair the pipe.He was arrested and taken before Bryant Thursday, but the case was continueduntil Monday. The case will test the validity of the ordinance.

[PERSONALS.]

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Geo. Perry has turned cowboy.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Dr. J. W. Sparks has been indisposed for the last few days.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Miss Rose Wagner visited Winfield last week for a few days.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

One of E. D. Eddy's babies is quite sick. Dr. Mitchell is attending.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

M. N. Sinnott and family came down from Winfield to visit over Sunday.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Frick Brothers are putting up a new pair of scales, at their coal yard.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

BIRTH. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Moore, a boy babe, Wednesday morning.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

DIED. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bluebaugh died Monday afternoon.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Capt. T. S. Moorhead has sold his interest in the "Kansas Millers"to Capt. Alton.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Mrs. Archie Dunn left for a visit to relatives in the state of PennsylvaniaTuesday.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Ed. Gage is compelled to use a cane when walking. He has an attack ofRheumatism.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

The little Misses Helen and Lou Pyburn are visiting in Iowa, at theirformer home.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Joe Finkleburg went to Wichita with the Border Club Tuesday. Joe is abase ball enthusiast.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Mrs. W. D. Mowry returned home from Wichita Tuesday somewhat improvedin health.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Mr. and Mrs. Hank Thomas left for Ohio yesterday. That state will betheir future home.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Miss Eva Berkey came down from Winfield Saturday evening and returnedMonday morning.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

John Gibson has leased the room formerly occupied by Collins & Perryand opened up his barber shop.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

W. L. Aldridge has shipped a part of his goods to Wichita, where he intendsto engage in business.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Dr. A. J. Chapel comes to the front in this issue of the REPUBLICAN withhis professional card. Read it.

CARD. DR. A. J. CHAPEL, Physician & Surgeon.

Office in Kellogg & Coomb's No. 33 Drug Store.

ResidenceRoom No. 2, Central Avenue Hotel.

Consultation solicited.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Mrs. R. C. Howard, who has been suffering from remittent fever the pastweek, has about recovered.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

C. M. Scott has purchased 175 acres of land adjoining his cattle ranchon Otter Creek from Chas. Galloway.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Miss Grace Bidwell, one of Wichita's most charming ladies, is visitingat the residence of Johnnie Kroenert.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Frank Balyeat & Co., will open a drug store in the room occupiedby Fitch & Barron in about one month.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Phil Snyder was so charmed with the wonders and grandeur of the IndianSun Dance, that it made him ill.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Fred W. Farrar could stand to be a widower no longer than yesterday.He left on the afternoon train for Maine.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Mr. and Mrs. John Gooch of Otoe Agency, Indian Territory, came up tothe Terminus on a visit to friends and relatives.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Mrs. Ira Willitts went to Iola Wednesday to visit friends. Iola was Mrs.Willitts' former home. She will be gone about two weeks.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Geo. Wright has organized a base ball nine called "Rough-on-Rats."They will play the Winfield "Exterminator" next week.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Geo. Bowman, the man who came here to succeed Will Aldridge in his lumberyard, was taken sick with an attack of typhoid fever.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Mrs. D. N. Willitts, of Fredonia, Kansas, arrived in the city yesterday,on a visit at the home of the junior editor. She is a sister of his wife.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Our Friend, W. Scott Cook, of Fred, Indian Territory, came up to civilizationMonday. He is after more goods for his store at that place. He is gettingrich, fat, and saucy.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

H. M. Austin came down from Leavenworth the first of the week to visitthe family of Frank Austin a few days. H. M. Austin is a brother of Frank.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Master Willie Aldridge is very sick, but by the careful nursing whichhis godmater, Mrs. Geo. Heitkam, is bestowing on him, he will pull throughall right.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Thos. Van Fleet, Howard Bros.' efficient hardware clerk, left on a visitto the old folks at home in New York City last Tuesday. He will be goneseveral weeks.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

T. S. Moorhead left for Milton, Pennsylvania, Friday of last week, wherehe will remain for a time. His health has been poor for some time and hegoes there to recuperate.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Ed. G. Gray went up north yesterday. He bought a new suit of clothesbefore leaving and will probably get his marriage license on his arrivalin the Hawkeye State.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Will Mowry went to Wichita Tuesday to witness the match game of baseball between the Border club and the Wichita's, and also to accompany hiswife on her return home.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

BIRTH. H. P. Standley, on the 20th inst., received a little visitor intohis family. We found out its sex in two guesses. It's a girl. Is this thereward of one who has left the editorial chair?

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

In this issue Geo. A. Druitt advertises his European restaurant. Mr.Druitt with the assistance of his wife will conduct a first-class restauranton the European plan. Call and see George.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Hon. O. T. Welsh, of Topeka, is in the city. He is one of the insuranceadjusters for a company for which F. J. Hess is agent, and was called hereby the damages done by the recent fire.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

BIRTH. No one would suspect by Cal Dean's demeanor that an importantevent had occurred in his life. Mrs. Dean on Tuesday morning gave birthto a girl babe. All parties concerned are doing well.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Dr. A. J. Chapel has already rented the business room which he has inprocess of erection on North Summit Street to Jerome Steele for an easternfriend, who desires to locate in Arkansas City and engage in the mercantilebusiness.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

M. Harkness and family, from the Sucker state, arrived in the city lastweek. Mr. Harkness is a partner of A. Wiley in the cattle business. Thefamily is stopping at the residence of A. C. Gould and will remain in ArkansasCity some two or three months.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Charley Shoup, Dr. Fowler's patient, is about well. The Doctor paid hislast visit Wednesday. It will be remembered that Master Shoup was the boywho was accidentally shot by Probasco on Grouse Creek some time ago, andit was thought he could not recover from the effect of the wound.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

T. H. McLaughlin purchased of Wm. Cox his business lot, the excavationand foundation walls for the store room on North Summit Street, which Mr.Cox was erecting, Wednesday, for $1,000. This was a rare bargain. Two hoursafter Mc. was offered $1,400, but refused. He will continue the erectionof both store buildings.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Phil. Snyder, Ed Kingsbury, Herm Wyckoff, Lute Coombs, Leavitt Coburn,John Ingliss, Frank Freeland, Owen Sheppard, F. C. Deering, and W. H. Nelsonwent down to Ponca Agency Wednesday night to witness the sun dance by thePonca tribe next day. They were doomed to disappointment. The dance comesoff today.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Miss Ella Bishop, who, when she first came to Arkansas City, was verymuch pleased with its appearance, finds it still more attractive the longershe stays, and prefers to indulge in that pleasant and healthy exerciseso fashionable here at the present timehorseback riding. She will probablybe induced to prolong her visit beyond the time she at first intended tostay.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Fourteen ladies took advantage of the beautiful moonlight Monday eveningto go buggy- riding. The party was composed of Mrs. J. H. Hilliard, MissGrace Bridwell, Mrs. John Kroenert, Mrs. H. O. Nicholson, Mrs. H. P. Farrar,Mrs. Wm. Benedict, Mrs. C. R. Sipes, Mrs. Chas. Schiffbauer, Mrs. LilianCarney, Mrs. R. E. Grubbs, Mrs. H. H. Perry, Mrs. A. J. Chapel, Mrs. J.Landes, Mrs. Isaac Ochs, and Mrs. J. O. Campbell. These jovial ladies drovesome six miles up the Winfield road, returning at about 9:30 p.m. On arrivingin the city, they came up Summit Street in one grand procession as far asHamilton & Pentecost's Restaurant, where the command was given to haltand refreshments were served. They departed for home after fulfilling themaxim of "eating, drinking, and being merry."

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

Charley Chapel and Ed. Kingsbury, the would-be Old Sleuthsit could bewereon the war path last Friday night. Billy Gray was watching certain suspiciouslooking parties and the boys begged to be allowed to sit up and watch thefun. At about 12 o'clock, while the trio were sitting in front of Grubbs'fruit stand with bated breath waiting for developments, a groan was heardamong the ruins of the recent fire. The boys started at break-neck speedin the direction from whence came the sound. With hair on end, they searchedfor the corpse, but it was not to be found. Suddenly again the still nightair was broken by that dismal groan. This time it was still further away.Once more they girded up their loins and flew. Industriously they searched,but alas, the victim was not to be discovered. Up the alley to the rearof the boys, the groan was heard again accompanied by "Charley, Charleycome quick." This paralyzed the boys. Their knees refused to work,except up and down. Finally they summoned sufficient courage to go up thealley a short distance. Nothing was found. Scared near unto death the brave(?) boys returned to the protecting wing of Billy Gray. Here they relatedtheir experience and begged him to take them home. Billy informed them itwas only a joke perpetrated on them by a ventriloquist sitting in frontof Hutchison & Sons' store. The boys no longer desire to be on the policeforce.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

John Kennedy and Dave Beatty had a bout at law Tuesday. The suit wasbrought to obtain judgment for some $30 in payment for hogs. The substanceof the case is as follows: A short time ago Beatty bought some hogs fromKennedy and told him he would pay for them next morning. Before next morningcame around, Beatty discovered that two of the hogs he had bargained forhad been taken from a bunch of hogs which had the cholera. He refused toaccept the hogs, also to pay for them, although he had promised to pay forthem and they had been turned into Beatty's hog lot. Kennedy representedto Beatty that the hogs came from a farm over on Grouse Creek and were healthy.The trial was by jury and resulted in a verdict against the defendant. Webelieve Beatty was right in refusing to pay for the diseased hogs, as heruns a meat market; and if he had put them on the market, it might havecaused considerable sickness. The man who knowingly sells diseased stockor hogs taken from a bunch of diseased ones should receive the attentionof the law.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

A writer in the Globe-Democrat gives in a long article, what weshall endeavor to give as a history lesson in a short one, a sketch of whathe terms "Queen Victoria's Wars."

The Queen ascended the throne, as the old phrase goes, in 1837. Therewas nothing in particular going on in the world at that particular time,and so the poet and amiable people generally predicted an era of universalpeace.

The Queen had scarcely been seated on the figurative throne aforesaidsix months, when what was called on our side of the line the "Patriotwar," broke out in Canada. A French Canadian leader, Louis Joseph Papineau,roused a considerable number of his people to revolt against the crown.There was a little desultory fighting all over the two Canadas, and muchsympathy was felt on this side of the line. The rebellion did not amountto much. Sir Francis Head sent all his regular troops away; called on theloyal militia, and invited the Patriots to pitch into him. It turned outthat the loyal Canadian was a bigger man than the Patriot."

Almost at the same time these events occurred, what has been called thefirst Afghan war happened. Before the war began in earnest, the situationwas very much like the present. Russian agents stirred up the Afghans; andEnglish agents endeavored to counteract their influence. The Russians persuadedthe Persians to besiege Herat, which the Russians now propose to do themselvesbefore long. Herat was successfully defended by Major Pottenger, an Englishofficer. After two years of warfare, an English army under Gen. Elphinstonefound itself in the heart of Afghanistan and in the power of the enemy.Gen. Elphinstone accepted a proposition to leave the country with his army.He started for India at the beginning of winter with 4,000 soldiers and12,000 camp followers. But one man of that army, Dr. Brydone, ever livedto reach India. The rest were slaughtered on the road. This awful disasterwas avenged by Gen. Pollock, who recaptured Cabul, but England lost muchand gained nothing by this war.

Then came the "Opium war," with China, one of the most disgracefulin which England had ever been engaged. The Chinese towns and ports werebombarded, the armies destroyed, and the opium traffic fastened on the countryand an indemnity of $25,000,000 in cash exacted. This war paidin one way.

In 1840 there was a little war in Syria with Ibrahim Pasha.

In 1843 Sir Charles Napier overran Scindh, and in 1845 and again in 1847there were wars with the Sikhs, and England swallowed the Punjab.

Then came the Kafir with the Moaris in New Zealand. In these the Englishusually gained territory.

Then, in 1884, came the great war with Russia, the battles of the AlmaInkermann, and Balaklava, and the siege of Sebastopol. From this war Englandgained nothing.

In 1856 there was another Chinese war. In 1857 a smaller war with Persia,and in 1857 came the tremendous mutiny in India. In this war England wastruly great, and for a year and a half a handful of English troops foughtto a final conquest 300,000 mariners.

In addition, came in 1857 the Abyssinian war in which King Theodore wasthreshed; the Zulu war of 1879, marked by the death of young Prince Napoleonand a terrible defeat, that of Isandula; the Transvaal war of 1881, whenthe Boers whipped the English; the one-sided Egyptian war with Arabi Pasha;the horrible failure just finished in the Soudan, and the little war withLouis Reil. A great many wars, all entailing loss of blood and treasure.No wonder another war, which if it comes, threatens to be the most costlyof all, is dreaded by the mass of English people.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

The following orders from the G. A. R. in relation to the death of GeneralGrant have been handed us for publication.

It is with profound sorrow that these Headquarters learn of the deathof our eminent comrade, Gen. U. S. Grant, and, believing that the entirecomradeship of this Department will join in showing respect for the nobledeceased by proper memorial services, it is therefore ordered that the Postsof this Department meet at their respective post-rooms, or other placesof public assembly, on the day and hour named for burial, where memorialservices will be held in accordance with the service book of our order.By the command of

In compliance with general order No. 6, from department headquarters,it comes in the province of duty of these headquarters to assemble the Postto pay the last tribute of respect to our dead comrade, U. S. Grant.

It is therefore ordered that Arkansas City Post No. 158, G. A. R., assemblepromptly at their post-room at 1 p.m. sharp, Saturday, August 8th. Comradesare requested to wear memorial badges and uniforms, as far as practicable.Post will be formed in front of their hall and march to Highland Hall, wherethe memorial exercises will be held during the afternoon. All ex-soldiers,whether members of the Grand Army or not, are cordially invited to jointhe line and participate.

Comrades, let there be no cold reserve or hesitancy in this matter, andlet every old soldier bring his offering and lay it upon the tomb of ourdead hero.

C. R. FOWLER, Adjt.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

As the ever welcome leaves of the Arkansas City press floated down uponthe morning breeze, they radiated the glad tidings of the whereabouts ofour looked for and long sought Street Commissioner. All hail! Let the 4thward rejoice! He is safesafe "up a tree."

Instead of looking for him in small augur holes, why did I not thinkof "Up a tree?" I'm more than an ignoramus. I'm an idiot. Now,Mr. Street Commissioner, do come down from the tree, before our honorablecity council gets to throwing stones, like the man in the spelling-book.Were you up a tree all of these twenty-nine days of June last? The councilhave been throwing grass up that way. Say, are there anymore up there, orwere they throwing it all at you?

You say you have been in the 4th ward. Impossible, Mr. Street Commissioner.When and where were you here? Who saw you here? Had we only known you werehere, we would have turned out en masse and helped you repair our long neglectedstreets.

When you make your next visit to our disconsolate ward, please notifyus as the law directs and we assure you we will be on hand even though thecouncil has rejected our "rotten manure."

Now, Mr. Street Commissioner, I everlastingly thank you for your kindcommunication through the REPUBLICAN, informing us as to your whereaboutsand that you actually did, sometime in the past, "drap" down,in the 4th ward. I am sorry that I cried "reform," and now whiletears as big as cabbage heads roll down from both my eyes, I promise thatwhile you remain up a tree, I will cry reform no more. T. D. ROSS.

Arkansas City Republican, August 1, 1885.

I, William J. Gray, City Marshal of the city of Arkansas City, CowleyCounty, Kansas, by virtue of authority vested in me, do hereby proclaimand make known that all dogs found within said city without having the taxpaid, as provided in Section 18, 19, 20, 21, and 22, of ordinance No. 5,of the revised ordinances of the City of Arkansas City, Kansas, approvedMay 29th, 1885, will be shot on sight after ten days from the date of publicationof this proclamation.

Witness my hand this 28th day of July, A. D. 1885. W. J. GRAY, City Marshal.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

AD ON FRONT PAGE.

It is Reserved to Advertise Grimes & Son's New Mammoth DRUG STOCK,Which is Coming.

[POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.]

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

Notice is hereby given that I will be a candidate for re-election tothe office of County Treasurer this fall, subject to the will of the Republicannominating convention which will be held Sept. 19th, 1885. Respectfully,J. B. NIPP.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

I herein announce myself as a candidate for Sheriff of Cowley County,subject to the will of the Republican nominating convention. Respectfully,GEO. H. McINTIRE.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

I hereby announce myself as a candidate for re-election to the officeof Register of Deeds of Cowley County, subject to the will of the Republicancounty convention.

[EXCURSION DAY.]

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

Thursday was excursion day. At about 10 o'clock a.m., the train arrivedfrom Wichita with four passenger coaches and a mail car, loaded to theirutmost capacity with some 400 excursionists. A large crowd of our citizenswere down at the depot to meet the visitors, but the train pulled on downto the road leading to Harmon's Bridge.

A large body of the people went to the beautiful grove adjoining thesteamboat landing, while a still greater portion came up to the city toenjoy a first-class meal at our hotels. After dinner a goodly number wentdown to the river to enjoy a ride on the steamer, which made frequent tripsup and down the Walnut. The Wichita Cornet band was in attendance and enlivenedthe occasion with some choice music.

The base ball club was on hand and refused to play against our boys unlessa purse of $50 was put up. Our boys did not want to do this because theirpitcher was sick in bed; but a number of the lovers of the game, in orderthat the match might be played, went down in their pockets and fished outthe necessary sum. At 3 p.m., the game commenced with the Wichitas at thebat. They were all great big shouldered strikers and it was evident theywould have a "walk over" after the first inning was played. Onthe seventh inning the Border Club threw up the sponge, the score standing36 to 5 in favor of the visiting club. The Border Club expected to playthe same crew as it had on its visit to Wichita. There were just two ofthe old nine present. The rest were taken from St. Louis, Olathe, and KansasCity. Arkansas City's ball club can play against Sedgwick County, but whenit comes to ringing in the world, we crawfish. But five of the originalBorder club played, word having been sent to some of the boys the game wouldnot come off. The game had a bad effect on everybody, except the visitors,and we feel very sorry that our boys should have been beaten so badly. Theexcursionists returned home at 7 p.m., joyous and happy and well pleasedwith the entertainment furnished them by the inhabitants of the city onthe sandhill.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

Thursday night at 12 o'clock, just as Night-watchman Johnson was roundingthe corner of Fifth Avenue and Summit Street, he saw a flash of fire inMowry & Sollitt's Drug Store and then heard an explosion. He tappedon the stone pavement with his cane to summon Night-watch Stafford, butthat official was not in hearing. He went down and looked in the front window,but could see nothing but smelled burnt powder. He went down to W. D. Mowry'sresidence and awakened him that an explosion had occurred in his store,but saying nothing concerning the flash. Mr. Mowry dressed and came up tothe store with Johnson, supposing that the explosion had been caused bysome temporary shelving, loaded with stock, giving away and making the crash.Not until the front door had been unlocked, did Mr. Mowry know there wereburglars in the store and then he heard them going out the back door; andbefore anything could be done, the burglars had made good their escape.

On examination, they found the outside safe door had been blown off andbadly demolished. The door, in falling, had dropped out partly on a cellardoor, striking some shelving, and then fell back against the inside door.Only one man must have been at work upon the inside for a pick had beenused in trying to dislodge the door from its position, but his efforts werefutile. As much as three-quarters of an hour must have elapsed between thetime of the explosion and the time when Mr. Mowry arrived on the scene,so if there had been more than one man, the door would have been easilyremoved, as it was next morning. The hole in the door was drilled aboutsix inches below the knob, and was made by a three- eighths inch drill.A terrible charge of power must have been put in, as the iron bolts werebent and the hinges broken.

It is supposed that the burglar or burglars entered through a west cellarwindow and came upstairs through the cellar door, and gone through the drawersthe first thing, getting some $5. In the safe there was about $50 and somejewelry, besides other valuables.

No clue has been disclosed that will lead to the finding of the safe-blower.By the side of the safe, a brace and chisel, belonging to John Daniels,the blacksmith, was found. It is supposed that the burglar or burglars hadgone to Mr. Daniels' shop and purloined the tools.

During Thursday afternoon two strangers went to G. W. Miller, the blacksmith,showed him a piece of steel, and asked him if he could make a drill thatwould perforate it. Mr. Miller informed them he could and went to work anddrilled a hole through the steel, breaking the drill in the operation. Mr.Miller does not know whether any of his drills are missing or not, but itwould have been very easy for them to take one. Mr. Miller describes themen as being genteel looking. One was about 45 years of age, smooth faceand very full, heavy build, medium height, and his hair streaked with gray.The other one was a middle aged man and had long black whiskers. These menare supposed by all to be the burglars. They may have been experts at thebusiness, but their work done here shows considerable bungling.

A man representing the Hall Safe & Lock Co., was in the store tosee Messrs. Mowry & Sollitt about purchasing a safe. It seems strangethat the safe should be blown open the same night of the day he called onthe firm. As yet, the entire affair is a mystery. We furnish the above factsand let our readers draw their own conclusions. But one thing is certain;hereafter, the REPUBLICAN will leave a card on top of its safe15 cent purseexplanatoryof the combination of the lock.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

Last Monday was not "blue" Monday for the REPUBLICAN boys.It became bright for them the moment they saw the junior editor come inwith an enormous watermelon, fairly staggering under the burden. It hadbeen given him by T. N. Lane. The "devil" in particular becamerestless at the sight of it, and could not continue his labor until it layin broad halves before him. By using column rules for knives, it was soondispatched, and the boys returned to their work full of melon but not melon-choly.Thanks to Mr. Lane for the treat.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

MARRIED. For a week or more the rumor had been prevalent that Will L.Aldridge was to be arrested at the instigation of Miss Annie McBride forbastardy. Last Saturday the rumor became a fact. It was understood thatAldridge intended leaving town that afternoon. A short time after dinner,Johnnie Breene saw Aldridge on the streets and started to arrest him. Hewas deterred from doing so by the defendant's attorney on the ground thatthere was no warrant out. Johnnie immediately went and had a warrant issuedfor Aldridge's arrest; and just as the 3:05 Santa Fe train was pulling out,Billy Gray jumped aboard and arrested Aldridge and brought him uptown. Hewas taken before Judge Kreamer, who bound him over in the sum of $2,000to appear the following Tuesday. He furnished the necessary approved bondsmen.

This case shows a great deal of depravity on the part of the defendant.A year ago he was a respected lumber dealer in our city. He had a happyhome, wife, and baby; and as far as the outside world was cognizant, therewas no more blissful fireside than that of Will L. Aldridge. During thelatter part of the winter, his wife died after giving birth to a child.

Now as time progressed he began the use of strong drink very heavilyand in a few weeks after the death of his wife became enamored of Miss McBride'scharms, and began to press his suit. For more than three months the defendantplied himself to accomplish his ends. Buggy rides after nightfall were frequent;fine dresses and beautiful rings were presented to her, and finally hispromises. "It won't be long until we are married," caused thegirl to yield all that a woman should hold most sacredher virtue. The defendantwrote letters full of love and promises, saying he could not live withouther. The girl, after allowing herself to be used as was desired for sometime, became aware that she was in an interesting condition and called onAldridge to fulfill his pledges ere her shame become known to the world.

He refused, and was quite indignant in the courtroom that he should besubject to an arrest upon such a trivial affair. His bravado, however, wassoon put to flight. Up to Monday afternoon he was determined not to do justiceto the poor girl; but upon the advice of his father-in-law, Thos. Sidner,of Topeka, and seeing that the law was all in favor of the plaintiff, heconsented to marry her. At about 6 p.m. the couple accompanied by Miss McBride'sbrother, went to Winfield in carriages, and at 11 o'clock Judge Gans unitedthe fallen pair in marriage. Tuesday morning they returned to Arkansas Cityand have since been stopping at the hotel. Aldridge says he intends to bea man from now on, and the REPUBLICAN hopes he will make good the assertion.Miss McBride has always possessed a fair name. She was employed as a domesticin the family of O. F. Godfrey. She lately came here and is the sister ofthe wife of George Pile.

Let this sad affair be a warning to all unscrupulous men and giddy maidens.Retribution will overtake the guilty though it be at the eleventh hour.The REPUBLICAN hopes that the termination of the life of the newly weddedpair will be more honorable than the beginning.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

The liquor trade of the county for July seems to have been an exceptionallygood one; in fact, the best since the inauguration of free whiskey. Thetotal number of statements filed for last month is 3,079, against 3,052for May and 2,607 for June.

Compared with last month Arkansas City has dropped a littlevery littleinnumber of statements while Winfield has pulled up a notch or two. The formerphenomena may be accounted for by the burning out of brother Grimes, whohad latterly stood well to the front in amount of whiskey disposed of.

These 3,079 statements are divided among the various towns and dealersas follows.

Winfield: Harter, 122; Glass, 132; Brown & Son, 259; Williams, 208.Total: 711.

Arkansas City: Steinberger, 536; Fairclo, 208; Eddy, 208; Mowry &Sollitt, 236; Kellogg & Coombs, 290. Total: 1,584.

[NOTE: FIGURE OF 1,584 IS WRONG! I FOUND TOTAL TO BE 1,478.]

[1,548 - 1,478 = 70 less than paper shows!]

Burden: Woolsey, 355.

Grand Summit: Avery, 155.

Dexter: Phelps, 182.

Cambridge: Rule, 20.

Udall: Martin, 69; Roberts, 103.

These statements represent a nice little harvest to the probate judgefor this month of $159.95. Winfield Telegram.

In justice to our druggists and the name of our city, the REPUBLICANannounces that it is informed by Judge Gans that fully one-half of the statementsfiled by our druggists are for parties residing in the Territory. Whilethe Winfield men claim we drink so much, the fact is we do not consume asmuch liquor as the inhabitants of the Hub. Our Territory trade is all filedfrom Arkansas City.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

SKIPPED THE LIST OF LETTERS REMAINING IN THE POST OFFICE AUGUST 8, 1885.VERY TINY! ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO READ!

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

AD. T. H. TYNER. J. M. CRAIG.

All kinds of house-painting, Kalsomining, Plain and Ornamental Paperhanging,done with neatness and despatch. Satisfaction Guaranteed.

[BUSINESS DIRECTORY.]

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

LELAND HOTEL, H. H. PERRY, Proprietor, Arkansas City, Kansas.

GOOD SAMPLE ROOMS. BEST ACCOMMODATIONS IN THE CITY.

Special attention given to Commercial and Stock Men.

The Leland, since Mr. Perry has been hold of it, has been thoroughlyrenovated and repaired. Everything "Neat and Tidy."

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

OCCIDENTAL BARBER SHOP, DELL WOOD, Proprietor.

The shop has been placed in first-class shape, and everything arrangedfor the accommodation of customers. South of Occidental Hotel.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

T. J. RAYMOND & SON, CONTRACTORS & BUILDERS.

Plans and specifications furnished on application. P. O. Box 385.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

WM. GALL, ARCHITECT AND SUPERINTENDENT, Arkansas City, Kansas.

Office at Alexander's Lumber Yard.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

RICHMOND CITY MILL WORKS.

Manufacturers and Dealers in FLOURING MILL MACHINERY, Richmond, Indiana.

Address J. W. Beck, Agt. of Western States, Arkansas City, Kansas.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

J. W. SPARKS, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.

Office with J. M. Wright, M. D., in Matlack's Block. Residence firsthouse east of Alexander's lumber yard. Arkansas City, Kansas.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

DR. J. A. MITCHELL, ARKANSAS CITY, KANSAS.

OFFICE OVER McLAUGHLIN BROS.' STORE.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

W. D. KREAMER, POLICE JUDGE & JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.

All kinds of Contracts and Agreements and Deeds drawn and acknowledged.Office over C. Atwoods.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

R. B. BIRD, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. ARKANSAS CITY, KANSAS.

Shop on East Central Avenue. A sufficient number of first-class workmenalways employed in order to complete work on short notice. All work guaranteed.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

E. Y. BAKER, PHYSICIAN. Special attention given to chronic diseases.

Can be found at the Perry House.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

HENRY T. SUMNER, ATTORNEY AT LAW. ARKANSAS CITY, KANSAS.

Office under Cowley County Bank. Will practice in all the courts Stateand Federal.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

I. R. DEMING & SON, DEALER IN GROCERIES AND PROVISION, NORTH SUMMITSTREET, ARKANSAS CITY, KANSAS.

Goods Delivered free of Charge to any part of the city.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

C. S. ACKER, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.

Prompt attention given to all calls in the practice of medicine and surgeryin city or country. Office and residence in Commercial Block. Night callspromptly attended to.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

BLOODED CHICKENS. ALLEN SPICKERD.

Dealer in the celebrated B. B. RED GAMES.

Imported from Scotland by W. E. Walden and [CANNOT READ WORD] BY ALLENSPICKERD, ARKANSAS CITY, KANSAS.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

DR. S. B. PARSONS, HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN.

Office and lodgings rear room of Cowley County Bank.

Arkansas City, Kansas.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

C. R. FOWLER, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.

Tenders his Professional Services, to the citizens of Arkansas City andvicinity.

All calls in city and country night and day will receive prompt attention.

Office, Residence, over Matlack's, Corner of Dry Goods Store.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

J. K. HOLLOWELL, ARCHITECT AND BUILDER.

Plans and specifications furnished on application. Mr. Hollowell is thoroughlyacquainted with all modern and eastern architectural designs. Give him acall. He guarantees satisfaction.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

C. L. SWARTS, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. ARKANSAS CITY, KANSAS. InNewman's corner brick upstairs.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

J. A. LOOMIS, DENTIST.

Front rooms over Cowley County Bank. Arkansas City, Kansas.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

WM. M. JENKINS, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC,

ARKANSAS CITY, KANSAS.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

W. ROSE, BOOT AND SHOE MANUFACTURER.

Shop on East Central Avenue opposite Central Avenue Hotel.

Sewed, Pegged, and Cement Work a Specialty. Satisfaction Guaranteed.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

WM. O. GILVA, PRACTICAL PAINTER.

Sign Writer and Grainer, Plain and Decorating, Paper Hanging a Specialty.All Work Warranted as Represented. Two doors West of Benedict & Owen'sImplement Store.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

J. H. HILLIARD, PROPRIETOR OF THE 5TH AVE. LIVERY & SALE STABLE.

Stock Sold on Commission.

Money Advanced on Stock Left for Sale.

Best of accommodations for Teams.

5th Ave., West of Summit, Arkansas City, Kansas.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

IRA BARNETT, DEALER IN HOGS, CATTLE, AND SHEEP.

Highest market price paid.

Call on me at the Arkansas City Bank when you want to sell your stock.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

I. H. BONSALL, U. S. C. C. COMMISSIONER -AND- NOTARY PUBLIC.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

J. W. HAWKINS, PRACTICAL BRICK-MASON.

All work contracted, warranted to give satisfaction.

Leave orders, and reference at Alexander's or G. B. Shaw's Lumber Yard.

Specialties: Boiler setting, Cistern and Filter building Chimney's, Coalor Wood Burners; Blacksmith, Fergus Mantles set, etc. Orders filled withtimeliness and despatch.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

TOPEKA, KANSAS, July 29. [Special.]

At this time there is much interest manifested in the movements of cattlein the Indian Territory, caused by orders from Washington, which means thepractical destruction of the cattle trade, or at least the business of manywho are now engaged in that trade. Desiring to get an expression from menwho had made this question a study, your correspondent called on governorJohn A. Martin, who consented to be interviewed when his attention was calledto the deep interest manifested, not only in Kansas City, but in the entireWest and South. The first point was the leases and the question was asked:

"What do you think of the order concerning the cattle leases inthe Indian Territory?"

"I regard it as arbitrary and unjust. The United States Governmenthas insisted on preserving the Territory as a home for the Indians, andhas treated it, in all its laws and its dealings with them, as their property.The Indians leased the grass, on certain lands, to cattlemen. Whether thecattlemen made a good or bad bargain with the Indians, I do not know, butit is certain that for the first time in their lives the Indians receivedsomething for the grass on their lands. And for this time also the vegetationof the Indian Territory has been of use to the human race. For centuriesit has simply gone to waste, blooming and blossoming in rank luxuriance,but of no value to and used by no human being on the face of the earth.The government says, in effect, that it shall continue to be so wasted,and to be used for the benefit of nobody. The Indians don't use itthe governmentsays the whites shall not use it. Thus, the Indians are deprived of thereserve they received, and the cattlemen, who have been acting under whatthey supposed to be legal leases, for which they have paid the stipulatedprice, are seriously damaged, if not ruined."

"But has there not been considerable opposition to the occupancyof the Indian lands by the cattlemen?"

"In some quarters, yes. But it was a thoughtless opposition, orgrew out of a dog-in-the- manger spirit, which influences many men. Peoplesaw the cattlemen; they thought they had what is called a `good thing,'and so those outside, who couldn't get inside, growled and declaimed. Yet,the occupancy of these lands for grazing purposes, injured nobody. The Indianswere benefitted in the money they received; the cattlemen were benefittedin securing pasturage for their herds; and the people, generally, were benefitted,because occupancy in these lands aided in the work of supplying beef forpublic consumption. A dispatch from Dallas, printed in the Kansas CityJournal the other day, stated that Texas cattle have decreased fully25 percent since the president's order was issued. Is an increased priceof beef a public benefit?"

"Do you anticipate any trouble from the attempts of the Texas cattlemento drive their cattle into or through Texas?"

"I hope none will occur. Our laws are explicit, and I have directedthe live stock sanitary commission to see that they are rigidly enforced.Kansas shall not be desolated by the Texas fever if I can prevent it. Thepresence of a Texas steer from south of the thirty-seventh parallel, inany section of Kansas, means the destruction of every head of native cattlein that section. Texas fever is far more dangerous to the cattle of Kansasthan pleuro-pneumonia. Texas cattle poison the grass, the water, the earth,wherever they go, and Kansas cattle grazing on the grass, drinking the water,and moving over the highways where Texas cattle have been, are doomed tocertain destruction. Texas cattle have no legal right in Kansas; their presenceis fatal to the stock of our own people, and it is our plain duty to protectour own stock interests against such losses as the Texas cattle spread totheir trail."

"Do you think the sheriff and other officers of the Southwest canand will enforce the law?"

"I have no doubt of it. They will have the whole population of theircounties to sustain them, for every Kansas man realizes the necessity ofexcluding Texas cattle."

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

The following from the Atchison Champion expresses our sentimentsin regard to the Indian question.

"Gov. Martin's letter to the secretary of War embodies all thereis to the Indian question. The United States has undertaken to care forthe Indians. It is in the position of a man who owns a vicious dog. Thedog may be everything to its owner; but the neighbors want him tied up;they neither desire to be bitten nor be scared to death by him. If the dog'scollar and chain is not strong enough, then he must go and get a more efficientdog restraining apparatus. If part of the United States army is not enoughto keep the Cheyennes and Arapahoes on their territory, then bring the wholearmy. The Champion has never advocated any invasion of the IndianTerritory by white men. It has always denounced the Oklahoma "boom"as a piece of folly, not unmixed with rascality on the part of its leaders,and this doctrine ought to be announced and enforced; Indians on their sideand white people on their side. This done, and there will be no trouble.If white men make trouble among Indians, kick them out of the Territory;if Indians come into Kansas even peaceably, send them back home. If theycome armed and hostile, kill them; if they commit robberies and murderson the soil of Kansas, and escape into the Territory, then let their surrenderbe demanded that they might be punished like other robbers and murderers."

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

If the cattle lease system now in vogue is to be broken up, we hope nomore leases will be allowed, but that it will be understood that the Indianswill be supported like invalid paupers. The Indians owned the land; werenot using it themselves; were getting nothing from it or for it and hada right to lease it; did lease it, and have realized a large sum of money,cash in hand paid, for it. This looks reasonable, and it is, but a constanthowl has been raised ever since the lease system was adopted. Let, then,the old system be tried again of giving the Indians money and rations fornothing, and see if that gives any better satisfaction. Champion.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

During the past week we have been over the route of the D. M. & A.from Dexter to Coffeyville in company with Major Fanning, engineer in chargeof the east division. The people along the line are prosperous, despitethe damage by flood and the ravages of the web worm. They are in high spiritsand waiting patiently for the railroad. Since knowing by personal observationof the resources of the country along the line, we are more than ever satisfiedthat the D. M. & A. will be a money-making road from the time the firsttrain pounds the rails from Belle Plaine to Baxter Springs. Dexter Eye.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

Despatches from Ft. Worth, Gainesville, San Antonio, and other cattlecenters in Texas represent great consternation among the cattlemen of thatstate because of the president's edict expelling cattle from the IndianTerritory. The result will be to largely shut off northwestern Texas cattlefrom market, and this will in turn prostrate values and business generally.The university board of Texas, however, has an immense landed endowmentand offers to lease that to Indian Territory cattle companies for grazingpurposes, though it is not probable that it can be had at the yearly rateof two cents per acre.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

A large and enthusiastic meeting was held in the Baptist Church, lastSabbath evening, in the interest of law and order in our community. Themeeting was organized by calling Maj. Sleeth to the chair, and appointingN. T. Snyder, secretary.

Some excellent music was rendered by the choir, after which Rev. Flemingread the Law of Mt. Sinai and the thirteenth chapter of Romans, and Rev.Witt led in prayer. Short speeches were made by Messrs. Hill, Jenkins, Campbell,Fleming, Buckner, Witt, Kreamer, Hight, and others.

The meeting developed the fact that there is a deep and wide-spread feelingbordering on indignation in the hearts of the people at the lawlessnessapparent on every hand. Notable in connection with the Sabbath and prohibitionlaws was this spirit developed. While law- abiding citizens have nothingto fear, and can rely upon the moral strength of the community; yet theindividual who wilfully and wantonly violates the laws upon our statutebooks need ask no favors or quarter as this will not be shown. That thisis the case seemed to be the conviction of those who were present in themeeting. There is unquestionably a wicked and wanton violation of both theprohibition and Sabbath laws which is fast giving to our fair young cityan unenviable reputation abroad; and against this wholesale iniquity thecombined moral force of the community will make itself felt.

It is not the disposition of outraged public feeling to be lenient towardthose who have so flagrantly violated not only the spirit but the letterof the law and therefore all law breakers must take the consequences ifcaught in the toils of an outraged public sentiment when it rises to enforcethe law.

As expressing the sense of the meeting, the following resolutions wereread and adopted.

Resolved, That we call the attention of the county attorney andthe probate judge to the necessity of an immediate investigation of theopen and notorious violations of the prohibition law in our city.

Resolved, That we respectfully ask our municipal authorities touse all diligence in the enforcement of all sabbatical laws on the statutebooks.

Resolved, That these resolutions be published in the city papers,and forwarded to the proper persons.

The meeting was adjourned to meet the next Sabbath evening in September,place to be announced hereafter.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

Ezra Meech, Jr., met with quite a serious accident Thursday morning oflast week at 6 o'clock, chronicles the Telegram. He and another youngman were engaged in rounding up some horses on Dr. Emerson's ranch on SilverCreek. Ezra had sent the boy around a knoll while he went over the top,and while descending on the other side at full gallop, the boy came tearingaround a projecting rock, the two horses coming together with great violence,throwing both riders to the ground. The boy escaped with a few bruises.Ezra was not so fortunate, but lay like one dead. Help was summoned andhe was taken to the house where he lay in an insensible condition for 60hours. No cuts or bruises were found on him, excepting a slight scratchon the nose, but his left hand and leg were found to be paralyzed. Duringthis long period, few signs of life were visible beyond his slow and sometimeslabored breathing. Dr. Emerson is attending him and in order that he mighthave better treatment, moved him to Winfield Monday. He is gradually comingout of his stupor. He remembers nothing but a sort of vague idea about roundingup horses, and gives expression to this idea over and over again.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

Captain Henry King's article in the Century, on the Indian question,estimates that if the Indian reservations in the Territory were allottedin severalty that each man, woman, and child of the tribes there could havea farm of 160 acres, or 12,150,000 acres in all; and this would leave two-thirdsof the land to be sold, which could be marketed so as to bring each individual$500. Yet, with so great a patrimony, the Indians are largely supportedon government rations.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

At last we are able to say that the D. M. & A. is an actual fact.About a mile of heavy grading has been completed already and the work stillgoes on with increased force each day. Upwards of forty teams are on thegrade now and a full force will be on in a few days. The remainder of sixty-onemiles will be sub-let the latter part of the week. They crossed the SantaFe yesterday.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

The subject of discourse next Sabbath morning at the Presbyterian Churchwill be "Is the world growing better or worse?" A cordial invitationis extended to all. In the evening at 6:30 there will be an out-door praiseserviceprovided the evening is excessively warm.

[BIG AD: A. G. HEITKAM, TAILOR.]

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

1886 FALL AND WINTER. 1886.

We are now ready for business, with an entire new line of FALL and WINTERgoods. We have better facilities for Fine Tailoring than ever. We can showas complete a stock as can be found west of Kansas City. We guarantee satisfaction,have engaged new workmen, and will DUPLICATE Eastern prices and discountHome prices on all our work.

We invite an inspection of our stock and prices. Respectfully, A. G.HEITKAM.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

The farmers are very busy plowing for wheat. The acreage sown in thisvicinity will be equal to that of any previous year.

We have not had rain of any consequence for nearly four weeks, but cornis seemingly in very good condition.

Wheat as a general thing is not turning out as good as expected. Thefanning mill agents are doing a good business in this neighborhood. Thehonest tillers of the soil are determined to have pure seed wheat this fall.The timothy sown in this section last autumn has yielded a bountiful cropof hay.

The members of the Christian Church are making preparations to have abasket picnic in Mr. Smalley's grove on the fifth Sunday in August.

An Elder of the M. E. Church South preached a sermon in Bradbury's groveon Sunday, July the 26th, taking the position that the New Testament didnot teach water baptism as essential, or to even be practical in any formin the present age; but the only baptism necessary for the penitent believerto receive, was the baptism of the Holy Ghost.

Elder Frazee of the Christian Church, when the services were over, requested"the brother" to be present on the next Lord's day at Tannehill,as he would give a discourse upon the same subject, presenting oppositeviews. "For," said Frazee, "one of us is a false teacherand the people should know." "The brother" could not acceptthe invitation, owing to previous arrangements. We understand that preparationsare being made for a joint discussion.

Thomas Culver and B. F. Craddock have gone on a visit to Wellington.

Wm. McCulloch bought one hundred head of cattle of Warren Wood. Theyare on the range in Barber County.

"The Granger" in the Telegram, said, "Alex Fullerhas the best team in Beaver township." The youth should post himselfbetter before he makes such broad assertions. There are twenty other teamsin the township.

G. H. Teter, M. S. Teter, and L. P. King will each sow one hundred acresof wheat.

Jos. Smalley has gone to Wichita to visit his daughters, Mrs. Shafferand Mrs. Garrett.

The health of this community is good; no "medicine" has beenrequired since the last fines were paid. LAPSUS LINGUAE.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

There are said to be about 3,000,000 acres of government land yet opento homestead, pre-emption, and timber farms in Finney, Hamilton, and Sewardcounties in southwestern Kansas, and this land is being appropriated atthe rate of 16,000 acres per day.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

It will be remembered by many of our readers that on Tuesday last, Rev.Wm. Hayes of this place, filed an information charging Milton Adams withunlawful sale of intoxicating liquors. Adams was arrested and brought beforeEsquire Hutchins, the trial continuing some two days, which finally terminatedin the acquittal of Adams.

Some eight or ten ruffians, whose names are at this time unknown, inorder to terrorize the law abiding citizens and prevent if possible anyothers from making against outlawry, went at the hour of midnight and calledMr. Hayes from his bed, telling him that his services were needed to marrya couple. The benevolent minister, not suspecting anything wrong, openedthe door, and was immediately seized by his gray and venerable hair andruthlessly dragged into the street in his night clothes, and in a mercilessand inhuman manner, beaten and pelted with rotten eggs.

The aged companion of Mr. Hayes tried to interfere to save her husband;but the brutal ruffians had no more respect for her than for her husbandand treated her in a most cruel and indignant manner, trampling on her prostratebody, and pelting her with rotten eggs.

To say that the people of Coldwater feel outraged over this most disgracefulaffair, does not express it. Their indignation knows no bounds and everyeffort is being made to bring the cowardly midnight thugs to justice. ColdwaterReview.

Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 8, 1885.

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WE WILL CLOSE OUT BY AUG. 15, AT COST and BELOW COST the Damaged goodssaved from the recent destructive fire.

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Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Today General Grant's funeral occurs.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

The Ashland base ball club plays the Border club Monday.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Hamilton & Pentecost's ice cream parlors are equal to any in thestate. Call and see.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Last Sabbath at the Presbyterian Church a collection was taken up of$60 for Home and Foreign missions.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

An election of a councilman to succeed Capt. Rarick in the 2nd ward hasbeen called for the 14th of this month.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

A team of heavy draft horses and wagon and harness for sale. Will takea light driving horse in pay. N. S. BUCKNER.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

The party who dropped a small sum of money in the post office can havethe same by calling on Frank Barnes, proving the property, and paying forthis notice.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

The county commissioners have offered $300 reward for the convictionof the murderer of Mrs. R. H. White at Winfield. The state also offers thesame amount.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

The "Kansas Millers" returned Tuesday evening from her firsttrip down the river with freight. She had a safe and prosperous voyage.The passengers aboard had a pleasant time.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Chas. Bundrem has leased the building on north Summit Street adjoiningBrown's Drug Store and will open up his meat market as soon as the roomcan be remodeled. Mr. Bundrem is a good butcher.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Now is Your Time to Buy Buggies, Phaetons, Spring-wagons, etc. 16-1/2percent off. We have no room and positively must sell. Come and see us.D. L. MEANS.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Bill Hackney has resigned his position as city attorney of Winfield.Jos. O'Hare succeeds him.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

The fronts of the Leland Hotel and John Gibson's barber shop have receiveda new coat of paint.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

A ball will be given in Highland Opera House Tuesday evening under themanagement of R. E. Hutchison. Invitations are out.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

LOST. Ladies saddle and saddle blanket, somewhere in the west part ofthe city. Finder will confer a favor by leaving word at O. P. Houghton'sstore.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

The K. C. & S. W. surveying corps finished the preliminary surveyto the town site yesterday evening. They stopped on the road leading toSearing & Mead's mill, just east of the Santa Fe road.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

J. C. Armstrong came out in our last issue with a card. Mr. Armstronghas money to loan as cheaply as anyone and does a general real estate business.See his card and learn what might save you several dollars.

AD. MONEY! MONEY!

I have perfected arrangements by which I can loan money at as LOW RATESas can be obtained in the state, either upon Farm or City Security, -ORUPON:- CHATTELS.

I have bargains in Farm and City Property.

Call on J. C. Armstrong, REAL ESTATE and LOAN AGENT.

Office over Post Office, Arkansas City, Kansas.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

T. S. Soward in this issue of the REPUBLICAN announces himself as a candidatefor re- election to the office of Register of Deeds. Mr. Soward has filledthe office acceptably one term and is likely to do it again.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Druggist Steinberger's record shows that H. E. Asp of Winfield purchaseda pint of gin during May for rheumatism. This was a forgery by some unscrupulousparty as Henry Asp was in St. Louis at the time of the purchase.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Of the entire crowd of ladies from Wichita Thursday, we failed to seea handsome face and we searched diligently. The men were even worse lookingthan the ladies. We thought Wichita was noted for her beautiful ladies,but it seems not.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Deming & Son did not sell their grocery stock last week as the REPUBLICANannounced. The bargain was made, but the buyer did not come to time as agreed,so the trade fell through. We make this correction in justice to Deming& Son.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Owing to the reporter being unacquainted with all of the faces of theladies who composed the party who went buggy riding last week, we omittedMrs. M. S. Hasie's name. It was unintentional on our part, and we hope thelady will excuse us for the omission.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

The Traveler comes to us this week again in peculiar shape. Oneside has printed on it only 16 columns, while the other has 18. The officecat, we suppose, had eaten up two columns of plates necessary to make theTraveler a nine-column folio. We blush for our neighbor at his futileefforts to get out a local paper.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Mrs. J. W. Heck and Mrs. C. R. Sipes, while passing along the streetin front of Highland Opera House Thursday, received a deluge of slop water.It was thrown out of the opera house on the awning and ran through a crevice.Mrs. Heck had a cashmere shawl almost ruined and Mrs. Sipes her dress. Attendantsof public buildings should be more careful about where they throw slop water.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

J. R. Rogers and J. L. Huey have purchased the flouring mill of W. H.Speers, down on the canal, and by October will have a complete roller systemin operation. The firm will do business under the name of J. L. Huey &Co. Mr. Rogers is a first-class miller and a young and energetic businessman.Mr. Huey is one of our bankers and is known to all. We wish the new firmsuccess.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Frank Hess and ex-city attorney Stafford became engaged in a wranglein the courtroom last Tuesday just before court convened. Hess told Staffordhe ought to be run out of the county, which made the gentleman of high legalattainments indignant. He arose from his chair, while his breast heavedwith emotion, and hissed through his clenched teeth, "Why you G_d d____dlittle whelp, I could take you between my thumb and finger and break yourbackbone." The would-be combatants were finally cooled down withoutbloodshed. Stafford was arrested for the use of profane language, but hasnot yet had his trial.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

The Commercial Building Association will begin a suit against A. W. Pattersonfor $110 to recover damages done by someone shooting through the plate glasswindow in Newman & Co.'s store a short time since.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

The school board met last Monday evening and levied a tax of 4 millsto pay bonds and the interests thereon, and 8 mills for school and incidentalpurposes. W. R. Smith was given permission to give instructions in penmanship.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Jones, the notorious cowboy, was drunk again Wednesday evening. He wasarrested and tried Thursday morning and fined $70 and costs on account ofbeing drunk. As soon as turned loose he was re-arrested for carrying firearmsand fined $10 and costs the second time. His revolver and saddle went towardliquidating the fine.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Henry Asp, Judge Gans, and Sheriff McIntire came down yesterday fromWinfield to investigate the liquor sales of our druggists. They were busilyengaged in examining witnesses who had purchased intoxicants and the druggist'srecords at the Leland Hotel, as we go to press. If anyone can be found guiltyof violating the law, lightning will be sure to strike.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Geo. H. McIntire, not to be behind Capt. Nipp and T. S. Soward, in announcinghis name as a candidate for re-election, comes to the front in this issueof the REPUBLICAN. Mc. is desirous of being returned to the Sheriff's officeand will in all probability as he has no opponent as yet. He has filledthe office acceptably and is worthy of the support which he is sure to receivefrom the Republicans of Cowley County.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

The Traveler man says he hung the report of the Republican CountyCentral Committee on the hook, but it mysteriously disappeared before itpassed into the hands of the printer. The office cat, of which the editorof the Traveler loves to talk so well, to us appears, in this instance,to be the Democratic blood issuing from its veins and which has washed thereport of the Republican County Central Committee into the much abused wastebasket.Poor cat! Poor copy hook! Poor printer!

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Sheriff McIntire was out to Harper Tuesday after a bicycle thief. Whilethere he concluded to take in the sights. He visited the drug stores toascertain how the prohibition law was working. Going in one he saw a signon a door at the rear of the room, which read "Gents, please pass intothe back room." The sheriff passed in and found one man busily engagedin handing out drinks to a crowd, and another filling out statements. Afterthe crowd had gotten all they desired to drink, the man who had been fillingout statements remarked, "Now boys, sign up some names to these; itdon't make any difference whose they are." They signed and that isthe way medicine is obtained in Harper.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Stafford has resigned. The council charged that he was incompetent toattend to city affairs and fired him out according to law. Last Monday nightat the meeting they swallowed all they had said on the promise of the Mayorthat Stafford would get out. After taking back all they had said, the cityattorney was called for and upon dictating his own terms, handed in hisresignation to take effect the 17th of this month. Mr. Hight refused totake action on the matter. He would not take anything back. Messrs. Deanand Dunn were compelled to go home on account of sickness ere the tryingordeal came to pass. Harmony now prevails and the REPUBLICAN has won a victoryto be proud of.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

The "Exterminators" of Winfield came down to play a match gameof base ball with the "Rough-on-Rats" Wednesday. The game commencedat 2:30 with the "Exterminators" at the bat. The "Rough-on-Rats"tried hard to make their opponents swallow the poison, but the Exterminatorsstruggled manfully and would not let it go down. The score at the end ofthe 6th inning was 17 to 33 in favor of the visiting club. The names ofthe exterminators are Messrs. Bangs, Hathaway, Vance, Whiting, Crane, McLain,Byerly, Eaton, and Byington. They are first-rate players and whole-souledfellows. The "Rough-on-Rats" were Messrs. Stevenson, Flood, Kingsbury,Sollitt, Wright, Baxter, Clark, Speers, and Howard. Let a generous-heartedpublic draw the veil of charity over the defeat of the "Rough-on-Rats."Peace be to their ashes.

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Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Sewing machines cheaper than ever; 10 percent off from regular price.Now is your time to purchase a Domestic. D. L. MEANS.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

The Flying Dutchman is the only plow that will stick to hard ground;for sale by Cunningham.

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Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Asa Burr has not been discovered yet.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Judge Sumner went up to El Dorado Thursday.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Mrs. Geo. Russell is very sick with malarial fever.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Grimes & Son have ordered their new stock of goods.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

T. J. Raymond & Son are building a residence in the second ward.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Mrs. E. D. Eddy, who has been very sick here of late, is convalescent.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Lawyer Stafford is very sick. He is kept in bed by an attack of fever.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Geo. Rembaugh, Winfield's new postmaster, came down on the Wichita excursion.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Rev. W. H. Harris will hold a basket meeting at Maple City tomorrow.All are invited.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Mrs. Henry Asp came down from Winfield with her husband to view the cityyesterday.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

DIED. Thursday morning one of W. W. Iron's daughters, of Silverdale,died. She was about four years old.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Mrs. Isaac Ochs and Mrs. H. C. Nicholson are trying the efficacy of thehealing waters of Geuda Springs this week.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

G. A. Burnett leaves for Meade County next Monday. He goes there to attendto his claim, which he took some time ago.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Geo. Eddy, Jr., of Leavenworth, nephew of E. D. Eddy, is in the citythis week visiting at the residence of his uncle.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

J. M. Ware left for Pueblo last Friday, where his wife has been visitingfor some time, to accompany her on her return home.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

E. A. Davis, city editor of the Wichita Beacon, called on us whilein the city Thursday. He came down with the excursion.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Capt. Rarick was out to New Kiowa the first of the week. He saw A. W.Patterson. He is engaged in the drug business and doing well.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

John Drury, of Maple City, is repairing and remodeling his implementhouse preparatory to putting in a stock of hardware in that city.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Mrs. Thos. Richardson and little daughter, Pearl, left Thursday for avisit to relatives in Nebraska. T. D. is losing flesh daily since theirdeparture.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Rev. S. B. Fleming accompanied the Indian excursion to Newton and Wichitaon Monday, returning Wednesday. He reports a pleasant and successful trip.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

J. F. Johnson brought a bunch of good millet into our sanctum Wednesday.It is six feet and half high and is as good millet as we have seen thisyear.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Julius Bahrend succeeds Joe Finkelburg in the clothing Emporium of Youngheim& Co. Joe will remain in the employ of the firm for a short time.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

W. H. Gratton, city editor of the Wichita Eagle, came in on theexcursion Thursday, calling on the REPUBLICAN while in the city and havinga pleasant chat.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Maj. L. E. Woodin was down to Gray Horse, Indian Territory, for severaldays the first of the week visiting his son, L. E. Woodin, Jr. The Majorreports quite a pleasant visit.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Capt. J. B. Nipp came in to see the REPUBLICAN Thursday. He was downon the Wichita excursion. As was also E. P. Greer, T. S. Soward, G. H. McIntire,and Jos. O'Hara.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

W. C. Guyer and S. C. Lindsay start for Ft. Scott next Monday afternoon.They go to attend the great council of the Improved Order of Redmen as representativesof the lodge here.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Walter R. Brennan, the lately appointed superintendent of Chilocco, withhis wife, arrived in the city Monday; and after partaking of dinner at theOccidental, went down to the school building.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

R. E. Grubbs saw how melon-choly we were when we passed his fruit standMonday, and taking pity on us, he stopped and presented us with a fine,large, watermelon. Many thanks, Bob.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

David Carder, residing south of town on his farm, has purchased two lotsin Leonard's addition of R. Norton, and will erect a substantial residencethereon. As soon as his house is completed, he will move to town.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Will Thompson has purchased the house and two lots in the Fourth wardbelonging to Ed. Malone. He is making needed repairs this week on the houseand on completion will occupy it with his wife and mother-in-law.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

J. A. McCormick, the manager of Roberts & Son's cattle ranch, isno longer down at Cheyenne Agency. He is located at Willow Springs. J. A.called on us last week and made us happy as a Democrat when he has beenappointed postmaster.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

The latter part of last week, H. C. Nicholson, of the Bee-hive, wenteast to buy goods for their trading post at Pawnee Agency and also for theirstore here. At Pawnee Ochs & Nicholson have purchased the stock of NelsonRice. This firm never does anything by halves.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

S. E. Pollock was suddenly taken ill Tuesday morning in Mowry & Sollitt'sdrug store and as he went to pass out of the door to go home, he faintedaway, falling against the door and bruising his forehead quite badly. Bythe timely aid of Dr. Westfall, he was able to travel in a short time.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Owen Sheppard, the gentlemanly clerk who has been staying in S. P. Gould'sbookstore for quite awhile, returned to his home last Thursday. We are sorryOwen could not prolong his stay in Arkansas City, but a pair of blue eyesin Oaktown, Indiana, were more of a magnet than a lucrative position here.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

J. M. Craig is the name of a painter who recently came from Ohio andentered into partnership with T. H. Tyner. Mr. Craig has good recommendationsas a painter from his old home and his going in with our Tom will make aformidable painting firm. Mr. Craig will move his family here in about threeweeks.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Croquet playing has become quite the rage in the northwest part of town.Will Campbell has become so interested, either in the game or some of thefair players, that he can now make the trip from his boarding house to thegrounds on Maud S's time exactly, and will wager the ice cream, payablenext winter, that he can lower the record at least one-half second. MissesMollie Duncan and Lizzie Wilson are the champion lady players. Beware, boys,for they can undoubtedly handle a broom stick with as much dexterity andeffect as the mallet.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

On Friday night of last week, the members of our City String Band andtheir ladies made arrangements to surprise the Misses Gould. The plan wasfor the ladies to go first to their home and surprise them, while the boyswere to follow soon after, serenade them, and thus surprise them again.During the early part of the same evening, the Misses Gould were happy toreceive an unexpected, though not an unappreciated, call from quite a numberof their lady Sunday school classmates. This was surprise No. 1. They weredeeply engaged in conversa- tion and fun-making, when the first mentionedladies arrived. Surprise No. 2, not only to the Misses Gould and their Presbyterianfriends, but to those who intended to give the surprise. Again, conversationand mirth were continued for some time, when their ears were greeted withsweet strains of music that came from the serenaders on the porch. The boyswere admitted and then there was a grand surprise, making the third oneduring the evening. The serenaders were astonished to see so many girls,but they put forth no objection and soon made themselves agreeable to all.Ice cream, cake, music, mirth, etc., of course followed and the night wasfar advanced before the festivities of the evening came to a close. About11 o'clock it began to rain, and this was surprise No. 4. Such a seriesof surprises we have not heard of for some time, but we feel certain thatno one will object to being surprised by our String Band, whose singingand playing cheer up the most melancholy.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Frank J. Hess' trial came off before Judge Bryant Tuesday morning. Hewas found guilty of screwing on the goose-neck of water-pipes, and fined$10 and costs. Frank pleaded his own case owing to the fact that his attorneyhad to be away that day to attend a sheriff's sale. Judge Pyburn was theattorney and he went to Judge Bryant and asked him to continue the caseuntil he could be in attendance. Bryant refused on the ground that the mayormight object to it. And yet when Stafford went and asked for a continuance,he was willing to grant it. We don't like such partiality in our policecourts. Hess has appealed his case.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

T. M. Layne, who resides northwest of town, came into our sanctum Mondayand presented us with the largest watermelon we have seen this season. Itwas delicious. Mr. Layne informs us he did not raise a large crop of melonsthis season, but he had a large production of blackberries. Off of a one-halfacre patch, he gathered 1,300 quarts of berries and sold them for $130,besides having all for family use that was desired, and plenty still onthe vines. This fact clearly demonstrates that Cowley County soil is themost productive of any in the world. Think, $130 profit, off of a half acreof ground.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Our readers remember what a eulogy the Traveler pronounced overStafford a short time ago. It took him to its bosom and allowed him to fondlelong and lovingly there. It called us unfair, a falsifier, callow editor,and Stafford a "lawyer of high legal attainments." This week itmakes another vomit and says Stafford is "incompetent" and possessedof "general cussedness." Let us see who falsified, who was unfair,etc. We leave our readers to judge. Taxpayers, if you want to subscribefor a paper that will stand by you and see your interests furthered, enrollyour name on our list.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

In this issue Capt. J. B. Nipp announces himself as a candidate for re-electionto the office of County Treasurer. Capt. has already held the office oneterm and given satisfaction and we see no reason why he should not be returnedto the office. It is useless for the REPUBLICAN to extol the merits of Capt.Nipp for everybody knows him and by their knowing him, they are acquaintedwith a good citizen and an honest man.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

The rains of the past few days have insured the early planted corn, andthe indications of further rain are such that the entire crop if regardedas a certainty in this part of the state. This is good enough.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

We hope the cattlemen will have some success with the conciliatory policytowards Mr. Cleveland, but we must say that our confidence is not supreme,and we have no prodigious hopes of success.

We do not believe that any government other than a despotism ever undertooksuch an infamous scheme of confiscation. It is the worst kind of dishonesty,for the reason that it is being perpetrated by a powerful government uponprivate citizens. It is rank robbery on the part of Mr. Cleveland, and wehave no hesitation in calling it by the right name. Political rulers havebeen deposed for conduct not more obnoxious than that of Mr. Cleveland againstcattlemen. When the president turns the guns of the government on the industryof the nation, it is time for people to reflect. If cattlemen must submitto the destruction of their property, other interests are in like dangerfrom the whims and ignorance of powerful officials.

Look at the situation of the case. The cattlemen have expended nearly$300,000 in protecting their property in the Indian Territory with wirefences. On lands thus guarded they have property valued at about $5,650,000.They have paid the Indians pasturage up to November of the present year.This is simply the record of investment. But last winter brought tremendouslosses to the cattle interests, and more serious than all, radically disturbedthe credit of the cattle owners in money centers. Instead of being richand powerful, there are hundreds of ranchmen who have been brought to theedge of ruin, and their only hope was in a favorable and undisturbed season.

With all these unfavorable conditions in existence, the president ofthe United States, for whom many people voted in the hope of better times,promulgates his forty day confiscation order.

The order was made with a cool premeditation, but without knowledge oreven decent attempts at investigation. As will be seen elsewhere, the presidenthad determined the matter before Gen. Sheridan left Washington.

What had he determined? He had resolved, for reasons best known to thisremarkable specimen of statesmanship, by pushing men representing investmentsaggregating about $6,000,000 to the wall in the space of forty days.

What business has the president of the United States to place the propertyof citizens in jeopardy? Where is the constitutional provision that declaresthe doctrine, that contracts not suitable to the fancy of the executive,shall be voided without reference to the courts? Where is the constitutionalprovision that authorizes the president to be court and jury, and to issueexecution on an ex parte statement made by his own commands? Where is theconstitutional law that gives the president the power to destroy one dollar'sworth of property on his individual judgment to the validity of the contract?

Supposing his judgment to be correct, what moral or legal right has thepresident to unnecessarily injure any person's property rights? We are toldfrom Washington that an investigation has been made. With all due regardfor presidents, generals, and military Indian agents, we insist that aninvestigation has not been made.

On the contrary, we assert that the so-called investigation was a fraudand a farce, originated for the purpose of sustaining a policy already agreedupon in Washington, and without reference to the facts or equities in thesituation.

If it has been determined to make changes in the territory; if it hasbeen determined to take lands away from the Indians and confine them tocloser quarters, then there was no shadow of excuse for the precipitatemove on the cattlemen. It is for congress to say what future disposal shallbe made of the lands in question. It is not for the president to drive cattleowners out of territory at the point of the bayonet in forty days, withouteven a hint of congressional action.

The methods of the reformers are past comprehension, unless reform meansthe destruction of all things previous to the present administration. KansasCity Journal.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

The Topeka Journal says the Monitor is in favor of thedishonest leases. There is no truth in that. The Monitor believesthe leases illegal. If they are legal, the government is bound by them andto eject the leases is an outrage. If they are illegal, and their existencecaused the Indian trouble, then annul them out in forty days. The orderis the act of tyrants clothed with a little brief authority. The cattlecannot be moved out in forty days, nor in 100 days, and the editor of theJournal knows it, and to attempt it is to destroy millions of dollars'worth of property, and we say to the Journal what the country willsoon understand: that the order was issued through ignorance or from bullheaded cussedness and will recoil with the force of a cyclone upon the administration,if it is enforced.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

WASHINGTON, August 1. Attorney General Garland, to whom the secretaryof the interior referred the question of the power of the interior departmentto authorize the Indians to lease their lands for grazing purposes, hastransmitted to Secretary Lamar an opinion, in effect that no such powerexists under the law.

The questions referred to the attorney general were whether there wasany law empowering the interior department to authorize the Indians to enterinto a contract with any parties for the lease of Indian lands for grazingpurposes; also whether the president or interior department has any authorityto make a lease for grazing purposes of any part of any Indian reservation,or whether the approval by the president or secretary of the interior wouldrender any such lease made by the Indians with other parties, lawful andvalid.

"The questions," writes the attorney general, "are propoundedwith reference to certain Indian reservations, namely:

"First. The Cherokee lands in the Indian Territory west of 96 degrees,longitude, except such parts thereof as heretofore have been appropriatedfor and conveyed to friendly tribes of Indians.

"Second. The Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservation in the Indian Territory.

"Our government has even claimed the right and from a very earlyperiod its settled policy has been to regulate and control the alienationor other disposition by the Indian nations or tribes of their lands. Thispolicy was originally adopted in view of their peculiar character and habits,which render them incapable of sustaining any other relations with the whitesthan that of dependance and pupilage. There was no other way of dealingwith them than that of keeping them separate, subordinate, and dependent,with guardian care thrown around them for their protection. Thus, in 1873congress in confederation by proclamation forbade `all persons from makingsettlements on lands inhabited or claimed by Indians without the limitsof jurisdiction of any particular state, and from purchasing or receivingany cession of such lands or claims without express authority and directionsof the United States in congress assembled,' and declared `that every suchpurchase or settlement, gift or cession not having the authority aforesaidnull and void, and that no right or the title will accrue in consequenceof any such purchase gift, cession, or settlement.'

"By section 4 of the act of July 22, 1790, the congress of the UnitedStates enacted that no sale of lands made by any Indians or nation or tribesof Indians within the United States shall be valid to any person or persons,or to any state, whether having the right of pre- emption to such landsor not, unless the same shall be made and duly executed

held under the authority of the United States.

"Similar provisions were again enacted in section 8 of the act ofMarch 1, 1793, which by its terms included any `purchase or grant of lands,or of any title or claim thereto, from any Indians or nation, or tribe ofIndians within the bounds of the United States.'

"The provision was further extended by section 12 of the act ofMay 19, 1796, so as to embrace any purchase, grant, lease, or any otherconveyance of lands or of any title or claim thereto. As thus extended,it was re-enacted by the act of March 3, 1799, chapter forty-six, and alsoby the act of March 30, 1802. (Chapter 30, section 12.)

"In the above legislation provision in terms applied to purchases,grants, leases, etc., from individual Indians, as well as from Indian tribesor nations, but by the twelfth section of the act of June 30, 1834 (chapter164), it limited to such as emanate `from any Indian nation or tribe ofIndians,' and the provision of the act of 1834 just referred to, have beenreproduced in section 2,116, Revised Statute now in force.

"The last named section declares: `No purchase, grant, lease, orother conveyance of lands or any title or claim thereto from any Indiannation or tribe of Indians, shall be of any validity in law or equity unlessthe same be made by treaty or constitution.'

"This statutory provision is very general and comprehensive. Itsoperation does not depend upon the nature or the extent of the title tothe land which a tribe or nation may hold, whether such title be fee simpleor right of occupancy, merely, is not material. In either case the statuteapplies. It is not therefore deemed necessary or important in connectionwith the subject under consideration to inquire into the particular rightor title to the above mentioned reservations held by Indian tribes or nationsrespectively which claim them, whatever right or title there may be, thesetribes or nations are precluded by the force and the effect of the statutefrom either alienating or leasing any part of its reservation, or impartingany interest or claim in or to the same, without the consent of the governmentof the United States. The lease of the land for grazing purposes is as clearlywithin the statute, as a lease for any other, or more general purposes,and the duration of the term is immaterial. One who enters with cattle,or other live stock, upon an Indian reservation under a lease of that descriptionis made in violation of the statute, is an intruder, and may be removedtherefrom as such, notwithstanding his treaty of consent with the tribe.Such consent may exempt him from the penalty imposed by section 2117, revisedstatutes, for taking his stock there, but it cannot validate the lease,or confer upon him any legal right whatever to remain upon the land, andto this extent, and no further, was the decision of Judge Brewer in theUnited States vs. Hunter, 21, Fed. Rep. 615.

"But the present inquiry in substance is whether the departmentof the interior can authorize these Indians to make leases of their landsfor grazing purposes, or whether the approval of such leases by the presidentor secretary of the interior would make them lawful and valid, and whetherthe president or the department has authority to lease for such purposesany part of the Indian reservation. I submit that the power of the departmentto authorize such leases to be made, as that of the president or secretaryto approve or make the same, if it exists at all, must rest upon some lawand therefore be derived from either treaty or statutory provision. I amnot aware of any treaty or provision applicable to particular reservationsin the Union that confers such powers. The revised statutes contains provisionsregulating contracts or agreements with the Indians and prescribing howthey shall be executed and approved in section 2,103. But these provisionsdo not include contracts of the character described in section 1,116, hereinbeforementioned. No other power appears to have been conferred by the statuteupon either the president, the secretary, or any other officer of the governmentto authorize or approve leases of lands held by Indian tribes.

"The absence of such power was doubtless one of the main considerationswhich led to the adoption of the act of February 18, 1885, chapter 90, toauthorize the Seneca nation of New York Indians to lease lands with theCattaragus and Alleghany reservation and confirm existing leases.

"The act just cited, moreover, is significant as showing that inthe view of congress, the Indian tribes cannot lease their reservationswithout the authority of some of the United States.

"In my judgment, therefore, each of the questions proposed in yourletter should be answered in the negative. I so answer them."

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

CLEVELAND, July 30. The phenomenal record which makes Maud S. the queenof the turf has been broken. The wonderful mare lowered her record at theCleveland Driving Park late this afternoon. The weather today has been perfect,though very warm. Rain early this morning hurt the track somewhat, but workon it made it good though scarcely fast again. The city was crowded withprominent turfmen, and shortly after the gates of the Driving Park wereopened, the stands were crowded with an expectant throng. Not less than10,000 people were in attendance. Though there were several other good trotson the programme, all interest centered upon the remarkable mare and thepromised trial.

Two years ago she trotted a mile on the same track in 2:09-3/4, and soonafter made her famous record of 2:09-1/2 in an exhibition mile at Lexington,Kentucky.

Today's performance was a mile in 2:08-3/4.

[NOTE: PRINTED ABOVE BECAUSE OF A LOCAL ITEM RE "MAUD S."]

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Gov. Martin received yesterday morning the following dispatch from Lt.Gen. Sheridan.

Gov. John A. Martin: I have your letters of the 16th and 20th.They have been referred to Gen. Miles, who starts from here for Fort Supplytomorrow morning, and will make an examination of the country and pointsyou mention as military stations. There need be no fear on the part of thesettlers of southwestern Kansas from hostilities by the Cheyenne and ArapahoeIndians. I have gone down to the bottom of affairs here, and know that theirritation was the result of bad control and oppressive measures. I hopefor a correction of the evils and am confident that when I leave here, thepeople in Kansas may gather their crops and sleep peacefully at night. Gen.Miles is an officer of good judgment, who will do all that is necessaryto restore confidence from a panic so paralyzing in its effects as thisone has been to the industries of your state.

P. H. SHERIDAN, Lieutenant-General.

The press dispatches of July 22 show that the interior department hasturned over to Gen. Sheridan the entire control of the Cheyenne and Arapaho*reservations.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

SKIPPED ARTICLE ENTITLED "MEMORIAL SERVICES." IT PERTAINEDTO A MEETING OF THE ARKANSAS CITY POST OF G. A. R. HELD ON SATURDAY, AUGUST1, WHEREIN RESOLUTIONS WERE ADOPTED. AM SURE THAT THIS WAS PRINTED IN THETRAVELER. ARTICLE ALSO SHOWED THE PROGRAM OF PROCEEDINGS TO BE FOLLOWEDWITH SERVICES COMMENCING AT HIGH- LAND HALL AT 3 P.M. WHAT STRUCK ME WASTHE FACT THAT THE DAY ON WHICH THEY WERE TO HONOR GRANT WAS NOT MENTIONED!

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

An adjourned meeting of the citizens' committee was held in the mayor'soffice Tuesday morning, the mayor presiding. Dr. Fowler being called onsaid the business before the committee was to arrange a program of civicceremonies to follow the ritual services of the Arkansas City Post, G. A.R. He read the program adopted by the veterans, which would occupy aboutforty minutes, and then left it to the committee to determine what servicesshould follow.

Mr. Lockley inquired if any arrangements were to be made for a processionto the hall, whereupon R. C. Howard moved that the civic orders and theArkansas City Guards be invited to join the veteran column. The line ofmarch was designated as follows: From on Summit and Fifth Avenue, marchwest to Eight Street, south to 3rd Avenue, thence east to the hall. JamesRidenour was designated grand marshal.

On motion a committee of three was appointed to solicit money to defraythe expense of decorating the hall, consisting of Messrs. Ridenour, Lindsay,and Lundy. The Ladies' Relief Corps to be invited to do the decorating.

A committee of the Ladies' Relief Corps here entered the hall to learnwhat part they were expected to perform. On suggestion of Mrs. Ashton, presidentof the corps, a motion was adopted to invite the ladies of the city to assistin the patriotic work.

It was also resolved that the city clergy be invited to deliver ten minuteaddresses, also Col. Sumner and Judge Pyburn.

Mayor Schiffbauer was invited to preside over the services in the hall,and to notify the gentlemen who are to speak. The music will be furnishedby Prof. Duncan, the singers to be selected from the church choirs.

On motion the committee adjourned sine die.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

At the last meeting of the Women's Relief Corps of this city, a committeeof three was appointed to draw up appropriate resolutions in honor of thefallen hero, Ulysses S. Grant. [SKIPPED RESOLUTIONS.] SIGNED: MRS. S. E.MANSFIELD, MRS. JENNIE COOPER, AND MRS. ANNIE GUTHRIE.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

The following named persons were bidders for the janitorship, the firsttwo named being the successful ones: T. McDonald, A. Abernathy, W. H. Cline,C. C. Moffet, Aaron Hopp, E. Stewart, Jesse Boudle, Geo. Sanborn, JacobKreamer, H. C. Livergood, W. Hawthorn, Russel & Eckles.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. The president today informed a delegation representingthe cattlemen, that he would not modify his recent order for the removalof the cattle from the leased lands on the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservationswithin forty days from the date of his proclamation.

[NOTICES/ADS.]

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

To Whom It May Concern.

We will sell to the highest bidder on Friday, August 14th, 1885, at 3p.m., at the Rink Store the following described property: 1 tool chest,2 saws1 fine, 1 rip, 2 mallets, 1 oil- stone, 2 drawing knives, 1 cold chisel4common, 1 screw-driver; 1 compass, 4 files, 1 broad axe, 1 saw sett, 5 Bitts,1 rule, 2 chalk lines, 1 band-saw, 1 brace, 1 foot adz, 1 jack plane, 1finishing plane, 1 square, 1 rifle, 2 shot guns. KROENERT & AUSTIN.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Go to Wyckoff & Son for the best Overalls and Jumper coats in themarket.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

15 pounds of good sugar for $1.00 at Wyckoff & Son.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Buy your Pickets at G. B. Shaw & Co.

Arkansas City Republican, August 8, 1885.

Live poultry wanted at the Red Front Meat Market, Chas. Bundrem, proprietor.Highest cash prices paid.