People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-09-15
KANSAS MATTERS.
Items Of Interest Condensed for Hurried
Readers.

Items Of Interest Condensed for Hurried
Readers.
Maps of the Strip are sold on the
streets of Arkansas City by hawkers.
John Stevens, a farmer near Garden
City, is making SO an acre off alfalfa.
Newton is threatened with water
famine, the source of supply being
very low.
A firm at Ottawa shipped 5000 chick
ems to Chicago on Monday. They fill
ed one ear.
An Osborn couple recently cele-
brated the sixtieth anniversary of
their marriage.
A new policeman attempted to ar
rest one of the features" of circus
parade the other day.
Former residents of Ohio now living
in Reno county will hold a reunion at
Hutchinson Sept IA.
THE Mail Office are smoking in con-
sequence" of showing business man
Of Wellington type lice"
DIR. NJ. NJ. Cloud of Junction City,
has been appointed physician of the
Osawatomie insane asylum.
Speaking of odd names, what do
you think of Beanblossom, the pat
ronymic Of Burr Oak family?
A fifty-eight inch snake with sixteen
rattles was recently killed in Wichita
inside the city limits but outside the
joints.
Slater White, a Mitchell county
farmer, has ten acres in watermelons,
and IS known in that section as 'the
melon king"
1t is said that the horn fly is doing
much injury, to cattle in Russell coun-
ty, in some instances causing them to
become blind.
Experimenting with the growth Of
canaigre, the new tannin plant, is be-
ing conducted to some extent in Wes-
tern Kansas.
The colored people of Fort Scott
will celebrate the anniversary of Pres
idcnt Lincoln's emancipation procla-
nation September %.
The ministers Of Topeka are prepar'
ing memorial protesting against the
dissertation of the Sabbath, by travel
ing, by state officials and others.
Miss Ruth Martin, eldest daughter
of the late Governor Martin, will be
married at Atchison to-day, Wednes-
day, to Paul G. Lonsig of that city.
John Brown, Jr., son of 0ssawato-
mic Brown, will be at the Kansas
building and be entertained by Kan
sas people Kansas week at the worlds
fair.
]. NJ. Gere, at one time proprietor of
the Garden City Sentinel, is at the head
of colony of 500 boomers from Den
yer that will invade the Cherokee
Strip.
The Lawrence people who are anx-
iously looking for their trousers,
which they ordered from a travelling
man, ought to have been content to
wear pants.
Kansas has been honored by the
Worlds fair management in the APP
polntment of Major j. X. Hudson as
one of the judges of printing machin-
cry at the fair.
Labette county is in fight over the
new county high school. The school
of Altamont, where the school is To-
Gated has employed attorneys to pro-
tect its interests.
Quite a number Of the small papers
of Kansas are of the opinion that they
are opposed TO the FIRE, coinage OF sill
yer, bat in time they will not be right
sure that they were.
There IS wide discrepancy in the
price Of wheat and bread at Winfield.
The br ,ad sells flr five cents loaf,
straight. While 40 cents Will buy q
whole bushel of wheat.
The indications are that the excur-
sion Of the Kansas Editorial Associa-
ton to the Worlds fair this week will
be the largest excursion the Kansas
editors have ever gwen.
A load OF sixty-two pound wheat
brought Al celts at Coifeyville the
other day and the market WAS so stiff
that the buyers had to hp up pennies
to decide WHO would get it.
Bishop John II. Vincent is expected
To arrive in Topeka this weex with
his family and viii reside in the
Meth dist Episcopal residence where
Iisho2 Ninde formerly lived.
The reduction OF the interest on de-
linqueut taxes has had the effect of
reducing the number Of bidders at the
annual sale in Shawnee county this
year. Tie sale was completed in one
day.
The kansas man who inveuted the
device fer holding stov p pc IN place
should Lave | h. really desired to
benefit his fellow beins S, made stove
pipe that u man could Ut in place
without swearing.
Jr6S, James Kelley. wio sold the
Pratt. j mes few weeks ago and be-
cam. partner with 4. j. Palmer in
tn pub icltion Of the Hutchinson Pa
t'iot, has disposed Of his interest in the
Hutchinson enterprise to Mr.. Palmer.
The following graphic description
of a recent rain is taken from the
LYONS Republican: A good old fash