The Coyville Press from Coyville, Kansas • 1

lle Press The COYVILLE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7. 1887. VOL. I. WO.

1. INXKOUldOKY. Burrous this year settled ou a place abandoned by Rev. Wallace. The settlers began to go further down the WsssgwtiiS Verdigris ou both sides.

Iu 1859, John Shaffer, Windsor Craig, Law. COUNTY TICKETS. RIPUBI.lOAa TICKIT. Kor County Clerk, D. n.

wilxna. For Sheriff, A.J. MANNKN. For Register of Peeds, C. MOKTON.

For County Treasurer, KO. BKOWN. For County Surveyor, JOHfl T. COX. For Coroner, M.

W1LKV. Vot County 1st Dlitilot, ft. reace Cliuesmith, Win, Michaels, Warren Greathonse, Ned Williams, Jacob and Win Shoop, Daniel Bean and many others took claims, all settling below Coyville. Doubtless a few came in in 1857-8 who are not mentioned here. In 1859 the influx We have especially good openings for a bank and a flouring mill and elevator.

Any amount of capital from $5,000 upward, could be safely and profitably employed in the last named business, and success is assured, as this is a great wheat growing country. To conclude tliia brief sketch, we would say to all who are turning their faces westward in search of homes, and especially to those who are thinking of moving to Kansas, that they cannot do better than to come right here. This particular part ot Kansas offers superior inducements to the home-seeker over many other portions of the state, and ia net inferior to the best and most favored localities in all the essentials of a Vanning country. We have the finest soil, plenty of good water, and plenty of timber. No drouth is ever severe enough to prevent our raising fair in gome coun-tiios they would be called large crops.

Even this present year, when drouth, to this vicinity was so strong that most of the choice land in the botti ms UEMOCKATIC TIUtgtT, Ror County Clork, DON N. WlLMhti. Kor (Sheriff, FRANK U. KIM BALI Ma D. BUBACH tor Register of Deeds, CHARLES L.

MOKTON, For County Treasurer, JCAAC Hl'UBON. for CorOnor. F. T. AI.LKN.

Fur County Cojumissioner. lit District, fl. DOUNIILASHR. WE SHOULD VH JUST. From the Oh'oago News, Sept.

Nth, While the country is iu a freussy of excitement over the casus of the seven condemned anarchists, it quite natural, perhaps, that every friend of up wim Mivmne, naomuiiiy hv vltes (very one to come In and examine his The Pjtr.ss begs leave to introduce 1 itself to the people of Coyville and surrounding couutry. If it does not succeed iu filling a "long felt want," it will fold its tent and silently go off and die. When a young village gets out of its swaddling clothes and begins to don alia habiliments of au embryo city, it icalines that a newspaper is tiie one thing needful to propel it along the highway of growth and prosperity. Coyville has felt this need, and the I'hkhs has come to relieve the selling void. It is small'aud not very handsome, but expects to increase ia size and beauty as the country develops and the glittering dollars of its prospective patrons accumulate iu its coffers.

The Punas will nst dabble in politics as a party organ, nor take sides iu sinful or religious controversies, nor monkey with prohibition but be devoted to the advancement of the interests of Coyville and the Verdigris valley and to a record of local happenings. It will endeavor to glide over the corns of its friends with a gingerly tread, and grind those of its enemies under an iron heel. It will heartily support every enterprise which promises to be of public benefit, and no doubt the people will in return ju.st as heartily support the Piiess. immense stooa or gooas. He has ia stock ever thing you want, at tba very lowest prices.

In combined with chinch-bugs and other visitations, has ruined the crops iu DRY GOODS the felons should be made au object of many sections, the smiling of Kansas. the Verdigris valley is thrashing out his crop of twenty-five, thirty, and in some cases fortv bushels of wheat to he has everything, from the finest silks down to the oheapest grades of muslin. No sulf-woro goods, but all new aud attractive. the acre, aud points with pride and attack. And yet there is danger that wo shall go much too far in this direction.

Any act of injustice toward these people is as uuwise as it is wicked. The execution of the death penalty upon Spies and his associates should be regarded by every right-thinking mau as a necessary, yet exceedingly unpleasant duty of grvcrn-ment. This is none the less true pleasure to his waving fields, where ears of com a foot long are thickly hanging from stalks from twelve to wag settled ou or claimed. Albert Hagen, a Polish Jew, opened a store near the site of Coyville in 1859. It wag the first store kept in th county.

His principal trade was with the Osage Indians. Ha became wealthy, and was finally murdered for his money iu the Cherokee Nation, Jan. 7th, 1860. T. B.

Woodard organised the first M. E. Church iu the county, at the house of Rachel Conner. The first blacksmith shop in the county was put up by F. Sellers aud one oflheCiiven brothers on the former's place in I860 or 1861.

Johu Hancock, brought the first mowing machine into the county in 18G1. In 1801 Oscar Coy moved into the county, aud he and P. P. Steele bought out Albert Ilagen's store and increased the atock. It was then called Coy A Steel's store, but afterward became Coyville.

May 24, 1S06, a postoffico was established at Coyville, aud Oscar Coy appointed postmaster. Coyville Lodge No, 57, A. F. and A. the first in the conn ty, was started in 1867, In April, 1805, Robert S.

Fiithey bought the George Burrous place, about a mile below Coyville, and settled thereon. In Auguat he started a saw mill, the fiiHt one in the county or on the Osage Trust Lands. In December lie began grinding corn, and in the fall of 18GG had a doming mill iu successful operation. Quite a village had sprung up at Futhcy'H mill, and the place was named Colfax. In October, 1868, (Jul fax was the most pretentious burg iu the county, having, besides the mills, a blacksmith shop, wagon shop, hotel, drug storo, two physicians, aul other residents.

twenty fett high. Last, and most important, their lands can be bought cheap. They are whether the dm.inod men be sincere or of course higher than formerly, but Come and see us, look at our goods, and get bottom prices. We defy competition in' lumber, hard and soft pine, doors, windows, bhuds, screens, mouldings Also, lime, eomont, plaster, hair and sand. insincere the safety of society the still comparatively cheap, all things In nil the oowest and most chnrmlng designs, whioh nppeal so Irresistibly tu the ladles that thy always refuse to part eompaay after being introduced.

considered, Laud values iui all the way from five dollars to torty dollars Many of the well-improved river val ley farms can be bought at the latter figure. The product of an acre of HANDKERCHIEFS, L.VCKS, FANS, PABASOLS, Etc. COYVILLE, This thriving town is picturesquely situated on the Verdigris river, near the northeast corner of Wilson county, being three miles troru its west and ground in wheat or corn in two years will always pay for the land. In some years the product of one year will do it. The climate is as healthy as We nke a specialty of Fence Posts and Barbed Wire, and are for about the same distance irom ltssouin line.

any in the United States. VL'UDIOISIS TOWNSHIP. The earliest settlements in the in suoh endless variety and bewildering pro fusion that the only dflhoulty. Is la waking a choice, first right of every community self-preservation, demands that the law be enforced with a firm hand. But no such consideration will condone any ulijust assaults.

Here ia a oase in point: Last Monday night a large meeting was held iu Cooper Union building in New York." Amom the speakers was Ilerr Most, whose remarks the Associated press reported as follows: The hero of the night was Moit. His apoeoh followed. "Friends and auHrchlsls," said be, "is It unlawful to have free speech In this country? Wast are these xnsn guilty o'f Are they thieves and inurdurwrst Tbej fought against trie tmmlerThfr ptrWo irmr -rflhblnr capitalists. Bevon policemen were killed, and they waut sovou of our brothers' limn a life for a life. Tou cannot allow that hanging to take pluoe.

Arm youmulvei, and for evory drop of blood thut Is spilled from our friends lot It life. I am not aloue an anarchist, but also a revolutionist. Tbo capitalists shall he the Hint to suffer. No out shall eBcapo his justduos the twelvojurors, Judges and deteotiros. Splen will not sloop very soundly at pruscnt.

Let tlisin bewaro. Tbo tiiuo lssprrouchlng whon we will bo ocrn polled From Historical AtliiB of Wilson County, 18H1.1 When this townthip was organized the records do not show. It was the COAL. homo ot the first settlers of the county and the scene of most of our early history. (J.

J. Caven, Win. M. Ca-ven and Henry II. Opdyke were the first persons to uiuke actual settlement in what is now Wilson con ty; they CLOTHING.

Comer Delaware and 2nd streets. entered the county April 28, 1857, took claims on the Verdigris above A very complete stook. Suits to Ot every body, at prices ranging trout Coyville, settled and built cabins at W. M. HARSHBERGER, Manager.

once. CI. J. Caven still lives iu the $25.00 to $1.25. II)' lot tlin Place.

Chicago Mall. A lawyer fiieud tells me he advertised for an office boy a few days ago, and as usual got a big bundle of answers. He got fairty well tired reading the various creditable things the young aspirants for the place had to say of themselves, but finally he struck a letter that really rested him. It was written on a very much soiled and crumpled piece of paper that had never been very white, and ran about as follows "I'm "ia years old. I hain't got no father nor mother.

I'm an orlan and Pre got to hustel. It betes hel how hard times is." My legal friend read no more of Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes, Trunks and Valises, Ong Out ml the letters, but immediately sent for the writer of this one and gave him the job. The urchin has settled down to "hustling" in earnest, and doesn't complain any more about the hard times. county were made We in 1857, and the wisdom of the choice of those early settlmswhkithe whole country to choO.seiEjwijM (6-day be easily verified. The elements of material wealth which first temvted these daring pioneers to establish themselves in what was then au almost trackless wilderness, occupied only by roaming bands of Indians, still exist, and aie still to a great extent undeveloped.

The Verdigris river valley, generally from one to two miles iu width, here extends to a width of five or six miles, and the fertile river bottom lauds, usually confined to one sido of the river, extend eastward from Coyville ou both sides of the river for a distance of eight or ten miles. The Verdigris river within two miles distance, receives the waters ol no less than mx tributary creeks which drain the surrounding country, aloiitf the banks of which stretch lare bodies of the um.st fertile laud Coyville is thus the natural apex or center of a large and fertile tract of country, containing a present population of from 3,000 to 4,000, and capable of supporting ten times that number. With all its natural advantages the country is still undeveloped but a new era of prosperity is now dawning. The great railroad companies, who seemed for many years persistently to avoid this section of country, have in the last year extended their lines in every direction, so that now there is not a farm house in the whole couutry more than six miles from railroads, giving cheap and rapid trarsportation to the great markets east, west, north and south. Coyville is on what is known as the Benedict extension of the Chicago, Kansas Western railroad, which follows the Verdigris valley a distance of about 50 miles, from Benedict to the town of Madison, in Greenwood county.

It is a part of the Atchison, Topeka cfc Santa Fe railroad system. All branches of business are represented here, there being in the town ten stores, two blacksmith shops, one harness factory, one shoe shop, one good hotel, one livery stable. Two church organizations have each a county. Early in May ot the same year N. 8.

Pigg came from Iowa, took a claim on the west side of the Verdigris, and settled. Gaston Reeves and his son Max took claims in the spring of 1857, and did some breaking that summer, hut did not move iu until tail. John Ross took a claim in the Hummer and settled on it iu the fall He was a hunter and trapper, and is well remembered by the few old tattlers. In 1 80 1 while on a trapping expedition on the Arkansss, he was killed by the Indians in what is now Scdgwicli county. W.

W. Wolver-ton and Jacob Millor were among those who made claims in the summer and moved on iu the fall. John Hancock, and John ILiii ock, settled in the summer or fall. John Hancock, Si lias been a county commissioner, and is still a citizen of Verdigris township. Rev, Wallace, a Presbyterian minister, took a claim (alterward the ISurrous place and site of Colfax) iu the summer of '57, and moved on with his family in the fall.

Frank S. Sellers, John Morgan, D.N. Caven, Joseph Beiitley and his son N. P. Boutley, Mr.

Foreman and three Germans all moved in, in the fall of 1857, took claims and located. Sellers' place was at the mouth of the Sandy. The Geruiens built houses near the mouth of Sandy, but did not remain long. P. B.

Sweet settled two miles below Sandy in December, '57. Sweet taught tlie first school in the county 1859. Ella Reeves, daughter of Gaston Reeves, born in the fall of 1857, For tlx A large stock; which It wopld be Impossible to mention iu detail. The St. Joe Herald says: "Dispatches inform us that at Ellsworth, Kansas, a distance of 700 feet below the earth's surface, has been struck a vein of the finest quality of rock salt.

The vein is 150 feet thick, and Kansas claims the thickest vein in the world, and the finest quality in the world, and the strongest salt in the world. But those who are acquainted with Kansas will take these superlatives with a little salt. There have been those guilty of charging Kansas with needing salt it is evident that the Omnipotent Ruler ol the Universe coincided in that view, and gave it to her in abundance. to iiso firearms. It must ooiue; so be pic-pared.

I warn them not to take tho lives of our martyrs In Chicago. I demand that thoy be sot free, hot there be a social revolution. The ubove stutemeiit was printed as received iu the Daily News, aud has been made the subject of much criti cisin. Now, it seems that the dispatch was untruthful that Most's speech, instead of being rf tho bloodthirsty character thus represented, was quite tamo. We have before us three New York papers of last Tuesday morning and all agree in their re porta of Most's speech, yet none of tlinm credit him with the utterances quoted above.

The Associated press telegram seems to have been deliberately invented by some one anxious to create a sensutioii. The arrest of Mrs. Parsons for violation oi a city ordinance the other day was another unwise step. The woman was engaged in the distribution of her husband's address to the American people, which had been printed in circular form for the purpose. Swine zealous policeman remembered that somewbeie iu the municipal code was an enactment against "peddling handbills" 011 the street, and made haste to take the woman in charge.

Now, the Paisons document had just appeared iu a conspicuous place to every daily paper of the city. It could scarcely be called incendiary The ordinance, at best, was one of doubtlul utility. And it is one that is violated almost daily by persons whom the authorities never think ot molesting. But the policeman was furnished a pretext for arresting Mrs, Parsons, and he availed himself of it. with alacrity.

Fortunately the magistrate's head was cooler, and he discharged the woman. Now, let us be careful to treat these people with exact justice. Thus alouo can we teach tbem the one grea.t lesson which we are striving so hard to make plain namely, that whatever may be true elsewhere, on Ameri. can soil all men are equal--equal in enjoying the protection of govern-inent, equal in sharing its responsibilities, and equal in incurring the penalties of violated law. Wilson county produced 1,821,300 bushels of corn this ear.

t2 JMMfjar MX in a A full and complete stook. Everything "A 1" In grade and sold at the lowest living prioes. Also, a fuU hue of Queenswaje and Glassware BTT- Kansas is the stock yard of the world. It has a better quality of cattle, horses, mules, hogs and sheep than any other country under the sun. Every year the improvement made in all kinds of Kansas stock is very noticeable, and the herds of the various kinds of animals are growing larger all the time.

Ex. was the first white child horn in the county. Rev. Wallace preached the Flour, Feed, fiist sermon delivered in the county, iu the spring of 1858, at the house of ALWAYS ON PAKD, M. H.

Sprague. The first marriage commodious place of worship. Our iu the county "united Abijah Hampton and a Miss Cooper, in the spring of 1859, at the house of P. B. Sweet.

Thomas Sylvaster and James and William Ross, took claims and settled public school is taught by experienced teachers ng nine mouths of each year. Two eqpress companies, the Adama and the Wells Fargo, have A roster of all Indiana soldiers in Kansas is being made by Capt. T. Durham, of Topeka, and numbers over 8,000. The expense will be several hundred dollars.

All who want copies should send in their orders early. Send 30 cents, and four copies will be mailed. Kansas has built 1,184 miles of in 1858 the latter's claim is now the offices here the Western Union When you visit Coyville you will make great mistake i jou fail to cation Wiley Campbell farm, Anderbon Jones took the claim where the town Telegraph has also an office here. We have two doctors, two lawyers, two of Coyville stands, early in. 1858, but real estate agents, one lumber yard, J.E.

GARLAND afteiward relinquished it in favor of and several other businesses and enter rcilroad this year, his son-in-law, James Ron. George prises, aud room more..