People's voice., 1893-10-13
KANSAS MATTERS.
Items OF Interest Condensed for Hurried
Readers.

Burgulars are operating in Topeka
very extensively.
Lawrence has 1000 pupils and forty
five teachers in her public schools.
Walton has no paper now and wants
some one TO come in and start one.
5 Thirty head of hogs were killed by
lightning near MCPHERSON last week.
A new $4,000 Christian church has
been recently dedicated at Washing
ton.
A shooting tournament was an at
traction at the Riley county fair last
week.
The colored boys have commenced
to hunt coons in the woods south of
Atchison.
The Bethel college, at Newton,
opened Wednesday with sixty pupils
in attendance.
The brick work on the new chancel-
lor'S residence at the state university
is nearing completion.
The annual meeting of the Kansas
Swine Breeders association was held
at Topeka Thursday, Oct. 5.
j. Blood, an Usage county farmer,
says that he raised squashes this yeaI
that weighed ninety-seven pounds.
The harvest moon got so full Thurs
day night that it ran over and del
uged all this portion Of the sphere.
Ex-Attorney General S. b, Bradford
has located in the Cherokee country
and Is now tawny general of Perry
Several borings in Wilson county in
dicate limitless flow of petroleum
underneath, at a depth of about so,
feet.
Almost every man who owns a gul
this year, has also a farm where h
occasionally goes to "shoot on hi
own land"
Arthur Capper's tendency to obesit,
will be minimized by spreading hi
new paper. the Mail, over both Nortl
and South Topeka.
An Atchison girl who was ''sur
prised" the other evening, kept tn
surprise party standing out in tn
Geld until she curled her hair and pu
the room to rights.
There are $50 wind mills used i
Finney county, Kan, alone, for irr
CATION purposes, chiefly for irrigatin
gardens. This shows that "wher
there is will, there is a way"
Onions weighing a pound each ar
among the agricultural products Q
Lyon county that the people ar
proud enough of to send to the world
fair. They ought to do some stroD
work for the state.
So bent upon policy of econom
are the Atchison icouncilmen that tn
town clock will remain idle for sey
eral months because the statesmen Il
there won't appropriate enoug
money to put it in repair.
1t having been reported that pa
ties in the state are using explosive
to kill fish. State Fish COMMISSIONS
Warhpler has given warning that h
will enforce the penalties of the la
against anyone caught indulging
that practice.
Franklin county's new court hous
is completed and the county Officer
moved into their new offices Monda,
On Tuesday the court house was ded
Gated with appropriate ceremonie
All of sthe eX-judges of that distri,
were present and made addresses.
Good or bad, if a man gets into nj
tiOnal prominence he is sure to hay
come from Kansas. Not because 81
has so many bad or good men, bl
some city always claims him. Wichit
bobs up and claims Belden, the man
ac who fred into the Chicago board
trade.
A praiseworthy rivalry seems
: have sprung up between the fish cor
missionerS of Missouri and Kansas,
to which can stir up the greatest i
terest in pisciculture. Commission
Wampler of Kansas says that there
no reason why every farmer in Il
state should not raise all the fish h
family may desire to consume,
, That among the first manufacture
plants that the water power at Tor
lSa is likely to furnish motive pow
for Is a paper mill. seems peculiar
fitting in view of the fact that the ?
pers of that town have already fu
nished the dam project with I
: greater part of its life by keeping
: constantly before the people.
, A novelty in the way of swindlil
was developed in Wichita Thursda
r when Arthur Sully and X. W. Bens
: were arrested charged with fraud
: lently obtaining money by represeI
ing themselves as agents of a \,
York fire insurance company. SUI
y introduced Benson. who wrote nu
= ber of risks for farmers and took thu
!. notes. which he disposed of for t
u premiums. But the policies ney
turned up and the fraud was disco
q red,
n The Dighton Journal hits back in {
J. fence of its much abused and wol
Y misrepresentrd section in this tr
s western fas shion: Talk about fai'
why the people OF this country have
- faith in its ultimate development l
= surpassed by the patriotism of o
n They are following mp a season of |
lS solute failure b. putting out a crop
- " large or larger :than ever before, a
- this too. when the papers of the ca
- and not SO far east either, are ana
emetizing this country-denouncinl
o. | as unfi. for ha hitation and seek nO