WINFIELD  , a

city and the county-seat of Cowley county, Kansas, U.S.A., in the S. part of the state, on the Walnut river,about 4o m . S.S.E. of Wichita . Pop . (189o) 5184; (1900) 5554, of whom 203 were foreign born and 282 were negroes; (1905) 7845; (1910) 6700 . It is served by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the Missouri Pacific, and the St Louis & San Francisco railways, and is connected by electric line with Arkansas City, Arkansas . In the city are St John's Lutheran College (1893), the South-west Kansas College (Methodist Episcopal, opened in 1886), St Mary's Hospital and Training School (1898), Winfield Hospital (1900), a Lutheran orphans' home and a State School for Feeble-minded Youth . Island Park (5o acres) is the meeting-place of a summer Chautauqua . Winfield is a supply and distributing point for a rich farming country, in which large quantities of wheat and alfalfa are raised . Limestone is quarried near the city, and natural gas is found in the vicinity and piped in from eastern fields for general use in the city . The municipality owns and operates the waterworks and the electric-lighting plant . Winfield was settled in 187o and incorporated in 1871 .