The Jewell County Diamond du lieu suivant : Jewell, Kansas • 2

defeated ihConvention by Joel Holt, who bow presides on the bench. Ths bar of Jewell County contains several gentlemen learned in law and have some notority for forensic ability. THE FIFST C1UMIVAI CASTf: On Saturday October 23. 1870, a preliminary examination of two men, charged witbborse stealing Chads A. and Smith Thayer-wasljad before -Justice II.

Hal. stead, at Jewell City. They were Tha first house built in Jewell City-was put up for "Mfs.Dodge about the 4th of July I87O, followed (oon after by the house now owned by M. TV. Whitney, The third.was the Pioneer Drug store, The first worthy of nRme, was put in by J.

D. Robertson tho house now occupied by-R. AV. Hill, in the spriugof 1371. The first stone house built in the countv was put up by myself in May 1871, one and one half miles-weet of Jewell City.

Additional History. organ ize the county, Apetition was circulatediand signed by- all present and on the following d3y Col. E. Barker, O. and Zch Dodge? went to Cloud county and made oath before a Justice of the Peace that said peti-tion, was genuine and correct after which Col.

Barker io warded the petition to Governor James M. Harvey, who granted it cpon the endorsment of Ex-Governor Greeny and appointed A. Davis, C. L. Seely and JfiT.

Gandy county commissioners and James A. Scarbrough, county clerk, and designated Jewell City fatherleiTTapd the mpurniugl Of mothers and pifters are yet heard. We have celebrated the, one hundredth anniversary oF our freedom from despotism, which has again brought to oor minds tho blood shed by bur grand old Revo luiionary fathers, and the wailing and weeping of our heroic patriot mothers who ufTered'thenifor and now, when the nation's bap-tism of bjpod is esh in our mind, and the widow's and thq fathprless, the "empty sleeve, and the crutch are still in our mid6t to rewiud us of another dear-bought victory for a higher standard of iiberty, let us all. consecrate 5ur-sclvs anew to our country. Let us maintain our country's honor, and good by maintaining our individual rectitude, In deciding wbp tomake servants in government affairs let us rigidly scrutinize each aspirant and' trust "fcv-W.

Mann came into the county, Accompanied. by L. M. Tingley, and located two miles'below Burr Oak, in White which w3 the first permanent settlement mfcde i-; that portion of.tho county. Maim returned for Ms land brought them to nisi homestead on the 27th day of August, by A.

J. Godfrey and his Gilbert and; family; Michael and family, and -several 7 other; men- without families, izli'i. r.The town of Burr Oak was located during the summer of 1871 by A. Godfrey and JJa'mes McCormick. J.

Ef Fadely bu il the firs store and put in the fire lock of during the same summer. The firstPostoffice in this section was name a Greenville "7 and was kept" by Al TV Mann at his 'house; from'Marcu' 1st 1871 until. the" town i Burr Oak waVlocated and an office established there r'i- The fir3t Postoffice on White Hock creek was the 1 'present 54 office Of Rubens, established in I87O, )7m, Scott Postmaster, i the i9th day of May. 1869, Mr. A.

Colo homeateaded his land on Jimestone creek where the present charged with stealing a couple of horses Henry Sprague on White liOQfc. near fiteof Bur Oak.The Prisoners were committed for trial and. Deputy Sheriff J. W. took ttieui to Clay county forrommitmpnt, but.

there being no jail in- that county he brought them -hick to Jewell City, and guarded them about three wcoeks when a writ of Habeas Corpna was issued by Judge Jackson, and the prisoners were tsken before District Judge tern. E. J. "at Concordia, to try the writ of and were there Thayer irumediatly lit out and escapedbutFiest was rearrested on the same chaae and. admited to bail for trial at the of court, when appearing against him he was set.

at liberty. judge '--v- In the night of October 5, 1871, a couple of horse thivea stole two horsses and two mules from the sta- ble of Robert Wilson? near where tbp government, and if the goem-Salem now is. The horses belonged rxient is corruptly administered it to Wj lands, who npr live 3 i miles j8 tae people's fault. Let every marsh cteek; The Marsh Creek country, one of the mosc sections of the county, was Eettiea iiugust ntn, 1870, by Wni. B.

Friend, C. Jones, O. F. Johnson, M. Ilofweimer, Lewis Spiegle and -Silas A.

Als-durf followed October 17, of same year. James Fogle James Fo-gle Jr. and Godding the same year. 4 What are now Grant, VicKsburg and Allentowrnships was then- one voting precinct, and the first election was held at the house of Davis, at the November election of 1870. Capt.

'F. Johnson was elected a Justice of the Peace and on the night of January 2nd. 1871, married a couple from Cloud county, which, was the first marriage ceremony performed in the county.1 Early in 1871 George Ziramer. jeo- CIiesebro, W- A. Mc-Cutcheon.

E. Wertenberger, A. P. Fields, Si Nicholson, A. Hardy, J.

A. A' Hofvveimer, Henry and Charles Zimmer, Gitiiens, Joseph Forrest, A. Ester, H. landing, Rt Caldwell, W. Plnm, H.

Elliott, Plum, N. O. Godding, Geo. F. Johnson, R.

A. Alyea, Gill, Geo. Stcckham, E. Taylor, Moran King and C. Huber took claims ih this section.

i On the 17th day of June, 1871, Capt. O. Fl 'Johnson was married to Miss Elizabeth Zimmer, "by A. Als- durf, a ustice of the This was the first marriage in the county, of residents. 1 'f The Johnsonville Postoffice was es- tablished at Johnson's house, on the 24th of June 18G1.

JUDICTAI. Jewell County at its organization was attached to Clay County tor Judicial porposes. At the session of the LegiBlaturin 1871 the i2th Judi cial district was formed and by' the same act of the Legislature Jewell County was detached from the County of clay and wa3 made a part of the 12th Judicial District. ASl Wilson was" appointed judge. KTtie first5 term of tho District Court was tfet i the 3rd Monday in March 1871, at -which time judge Wilson apeard but for lack of bus- ineoa 1 adjurn'ed immediately; On the 3d Monday Sep tern bet following Court again convened' in the small up; 8tairs room on the Street bqarbraugh building -Jewell City.

at the call of Sheriff E. E. Blake but there1 being no cases on the docket court" againA adjumed." At tne spring term ot 77b there were two or three cases 1 but were soon disposed of. At this term Knappenberger was appointed County attorney in the absence' of Thomas J. Patterson Regular elected After words several terms of Court Were held at places in! Jewell City, A.

S. Wilson still presiding The docket gradually enlarging, the first case exciting a any attention was the of Kansas vs '-The Legislature in .73 changed the bounderiea qf the 12th. districtland the 15th JudiciaLDistrict was cre ated from the western counties of the 12th; Jewell; being )one of' the number A. Bantacbeing appointed judge oyer the numerous -applicants, the attorneys of; the district were more or less iddignahl at the appointment of Banta as he regarded as a carpet iwgger Judge Banta held two terms of court' and made many friends by his "agreea ble and gentlemanly- conductbnt this deep seated prejudice could not be entirely removed; -and at the en-sninr election for jadge, Banta was as tbo' county sea's Col. Barker, then I Notary Public, administered the oath of office to tne: annoint- officers the 4th day August.

1870. The first electtion held in the county was a Special electtion held onrthe 27fh day of September 1870, to elect county officers to serve until those which wolud be elected at the first resrular election would as sume their official duties, and to locate the -county seat. Jewell City received the highest humber-of votes for the county seat, and F. T. Gandy" Bowls "and Thos.

Coyer- dale wer elected county commission ers, James county clerk, II. county Treasurer, Davis, Sheriff, S. O. SJarraani Register of Deeds, C. L.

Seely, Pro bate Judge, SRJ Su perintendent, and Wm, Cos, coronor Having "given a brief sketch of thesettlement and circumstances con nected with he organizeation of the county it will be proper to mention some of the early characters and incidents The first white women in the county were thewives.of the two sweeds who settled on white Rock in 1265 The next white women who came into the county, and the first to remain, ware' Mrs. S. C. Bowls and Mrs.lTrank Littlej ohn; the next was Mrs. J-' Billings, who 'arrived jane 27th 1870.

Mrs. Dodge came about One Week on July 3d. I The first white i child born In Ihe connty "was. ewell Rittenhouse, whose parents had settled on west Buffalo creek. This event happened the last of August 1870.

Inhonor to this act of patrotism the Jewell city town! Company presented a town lot to young Mr. Rittenhousq, which is probably worth 5,000 today. The next birth was'adaugh-ter of A. J. Godfrey, of Burr Oak.

This hapened so near, the birth of Rittenhouse that, a question was raised as to who should claim the honor- of first native ewellite. The next birth was a son of Mr. and Mre. O'Rourk, of Rock creek, about September 20th, following. 1 The first Physician in the county was G.

S- Christ, who arrived Oct. 1870 The first Postmaster waa John Holler and the fist regular mail arrived at the Jewell office' on' the 1st day of July, 1870, on horseback from Sibley came thereafter once a week. Jifjf i The first sermon Preached in: the Countywae by R. P. West, the pres ent Representative from Republic County; who preached in the Pioneer Drug store i on the 27th day of 1870; ths first prayer meeting ws held the day following.

The first Sundy school In the county; wasj organized on the; 14th of may 1871, at the. house of ym. Cameron, justjeast ot: Jewell City. Barker was chosen'Pres- ident.t'4? J-Berryi Supt. tand j.

WagernianJSecretary. The- present Union Sunday of Jewell City is a continuatiqn of this school. The first Public school taught was also at the house of and byv Wm. Cameron in the summer of Probate Judge A-; Jackson, who was elected at first election in the county, held in issued the first marriage, li cence.toCapt. O.

Johnson and Mies Elizabeth: zimmer who were the first couple connty; The first Kepresenative elected in tlje county was. Felix T. Gandy, in 2h 1870 He was followed WvPatei in .1871, ne by G. fi. Bishop in.1872, he by? Parker in 1873, he by.D.

Ii, PaUner and he a turn by S. E. Wileon the present incubeat'L 4 I only those whose. record 13 i pure. Let; loud-njouthed professions go for At no time in a nation's lifewill it do, tq tamper with the least taint of dishonor or corruption," much less at the i The people are e', lue queguoM- oww uu xanuu policy that they may pot ibe duped hv dishonest and corrunt nolitU cians, ana we snan nave eatorei upon a a era of good government that will brin all its glorious fruits "of peace, harmony, prosperi ty and advancement.

A BATTLE WITH THE INDIANS. Gen. Custar and Hia Whole Family Killed' j. Every Officer and Man of Five Cora" antes Killed. -Onthe25 of June Gen.

Coster with tweive companies of troops e-ime upon a Sioux ludian vilage numboririg about lour com- panies 'were ordered to attack the Tnrlmnfl in 'the rGfir. threa comnan rues were stationed on a hill as are- serve, and Gen. Custer with five Pomp aines made an attack on thickest part of the Indian line; Not one man of the battallion lived to tell thVfale. Ilere is the pub-. Hshed renort: A correspondent of tho Helena (Montana) Herald writes from stilNv water, Montana, July za, ana says that Custer found an, Indian camp of about 2,000 lodges on the' Little Horn.

artd immediately attacked if. charged the thickest portion of the Known ol tne operation of, this qetochment, only as TlfACEri BY THE DEAD) 1 Maior Renb commanded the oth- or oavnn vnmnan1 pa otiVI alf aVal i nr j. i a uiurueroUB fire from all directions; The great- er; poruon joogni db norseoacK. Huater. his two brothers, nenhsw and broiher-in-law were all killed.

i 'i an(l not one of his. detachment es- caped. 1 wo hundred and seven wi tit A Vh wZ 1 I -m A 1 a a a 1 A tin hoi 17 i I Ai to AOri a A three hundred, and only! thirty-onei wounded. The Indians surrounded RenoV Command and held them i nno'tlatr In Iha Vitlla nnf tPF 4 water, untile Gibbon.s Command'' came in sight, when" they broke cauup vue ujijui auu leu. Anesev enth FOUGHT LIKE TIGERS Indian's loss, cannot "be.r estimated as they bore off most of Seventh cavelry and Gibbon's eonw mand are retummff to thA mnntu of the Little" Horn, where a steam boat.lies.

The.Indians got'- all- tbo arms of the killed soldiers. There r-m mm i were seventeen commissioned ofliv ccrs killed.w'.The wnoltj Oater fam- ilv died at the headof, their columi The exacL loss cannot be known, ag; and 9ergeant.majora were Tbe Indian camp waa A twenay miles np the Little jansjactuly pulled men off their 5 bor JeB in'ome iDStances. site' of the town of 4lonia, he went back eas aia not return until the summer, of the following year No one had jumped his claim and he returned upon it and resides there yet, having devoted '40 the town site of Ionia, the original town site having been contested successfully. The first permanant Settlement in th9 south part of tho'county was made by Mr A. J.

Davis, on Buffalo creek, the east line of the county, about the first of March, 18:0. The next comers tothis section were, 'W. D. Street, who bad engraved upon his gun stock, Wild Bill, from Smoky Hill; Never worked and never will," and as, far at our knowledge of him extends, he never has, Jerry Bar-he'tt and the Lewises, all of whom took claims on- Biiflalo creek between Davises and the confluence of the different branches. About the next who came was a company of eleven men from Stevenson County 111, whose names were: Wm.

Cameron S. R. Wprick, John. Wopick, John -Hoffer, C. P.

Ritchar.d C. A. Belknap, Joseph Fogle, Christopher Bender, Sam, JK.rape,'D. J. Reeky, and A.

j. AVise, all of tookclaims up and down Buffalo, creek. wi vi J. i A number of others oame: In about this time, and on. the 9th day of, may; the Jewell City town Com pany was orgonized with H.

Sorick, President, N. H. Billings Secretary, and ames A Scarbrough, Geo. Sor- ick, RHudsonpiller S. K.

Wprick and. W. T). Street as menbers.Uii s.lJ''c For protection from the Indians, a sod fort was built; on" the. Jewell CUy town site which was finished on the 15th day of and: named Fort its wallsidu ing, named persons found refuge, in addition to the party, Jront Se-: 111.

heretofore men tioned: whps-was elected aptain, john; Street, Ool. K. Barker James A. Scarbrough, James W. Hall, John jWm.

Isaac Sawin C. Seely, Wm. Cox, Thos liar Henry Sor ick. Fred W. B.

Phillips, F. T. Lewis Gandy, iCommings HoyrHenry. Usher, N. Billings ana wiie, jco.

vYtaiers saakcix tanu ohn Doclge and W. K. In addition to. abpye? there was a squad biSojdiers stationed at the Fort durin the summer, of 180, whose, duty it to. the ntry be wen theJ publi can and polo mbn ri vers, "When the i'ourth of Jul boys 'hadrcon-structed a 'shade of green boughs near the Fort and indulged in a gen.

nine first in the County of, independence, day. W. R. Phillips Jt as orator, CapCs treet brought jon his Militia and fired a few volleys by way of 6aluteTere were but few present and we have often herad the incorrigible old bachelors say that it was the best celebration. IhatAhey On this day jBtepa Weretaken to west of Jewell City, and the belonged to Wilson, Jas.

WylaDdl and. Wm. Garrttspu; followed and captured the thieves, -whose names were ascertained to be Guy hit more and Jake Haines, at Qrand Island Nebraska. Oct 9th, with twelve head of stolen Etock. A rev quisition was obtained from Gov.

Ilarvy, of Kansas, and thieves brought back to Jewell on the 10th of JNov. followiirg. The second night after their return to where the horses were taken, about 100 disguised men took the thieves from the Deputy and: hiiLg them to a tree under which the sta ble was built from which they took the hoi'ses and Haines was recognized as a mar- derer after his capture, he having killed two men on Little blue river in This furamarv pun ishment seems to eert a salutary ei feet, for, no more stealing of that kind was dons in the county far several venrs. THE DIAMOND. SATURDAY, JULY 15.

1376. 3E ii 1 ican Tic lie t- For President, RUTHERFORD B. HAYS of oino. For Yice President, WILLIA31 OF SEW Republican Convention First Con- i gressionai uibtrict. Tlie KeDtiblicanS Of thfi First.

rrmWps- I sionai JJisirict in Kansas, will hold a 1 Delegate Convention in on TUES1JAT, THK22d DAY OF AUGUST, 1S7G, at 10 o'clock- a. lor tiie jJurfiose oinoiil liiann a canaiaaie lor congress. Said Convfention shall tAJmposed 'of lrpi each HepresentatiYe jjisinci, eniitiea io representation in I thA i.pWi'Siat.;A jva nrntioo lit initted, thereloie two alternates tnust Ibe A I rft 4 sW r4- w.Z I I ings for the election ol eaid delegates and alternates, will be held on Saturday, August 5, IST6 By order of Committee. D. h.

PALMER, Ghairmah. THE' -The line is passed in: the on-ward march of this nation and it is now in the" second century of its life. Let us 'consider: Ooe: hun- dred years ago on 'the 4th' day of July the nation was born. The in fant grew, up in the rugged life adversity and became strong; -it established its po wer upon the grand principle of equal tol all mankind, bnt lived and practised iU l'U a lie, the form of human slavery, for nearly ninety years. The fes-J vermgore nnany LroK.e aei- ji and the wailiug of widows- and the I 1 4.