People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-04-14
County Correspondence.
Oxford.

SNhOhas
Oxford has had many sensations in
the past few days. In the first place,
young woman who was betrayed
and had no home, went into the
dugout Of one Of our citizens and gave
birth to child. Upon entering his
dugout at 9 o'clock p. m, he found
this poor woman with no attendance
and her dead child. The child was
buried and some of our kind-hearted
christian women attended to her
wants.
The next sensation was the strange
disappearance OF a young German,
twenty-eight years old, who had been
at work for some time for Mr.. Stout,
near old Bushnell. He left the house
OF Mr.. Stout with halter TO catch a
horse to go to work. He was sober
and industrious, left fine team, har-
ness, wagon and sl0O in money In his
trunk. 1t is feared that he is de-
mented or has committed suicide.
Saturday night teams were out
nearly all night calling our citizens to
town, saying a man was found near
Lost creek hanging to a tree. One OF
the first to be called was W. B. Cold.
well, justice OF the peace, to act in
place Of coroner. The next called
were all the physicians, then came
our jOvial and good .natured under
taker, John r. Johnston, then many,
in fact, majority of our leading citi-
zens were called up from their beds to
act on the coroner's jury. Messrs.
Sherburn, Votaw, Carson, Pagan,
Parker, Burlington, Bowuish, Cope
land, Hoover, Garfield, Thomas and
a host of Others, with Drs. Smith.
Maggard, Collins, Stockinger and
Middleton. There was many to act,
as all supposed, in a corOner's inquest.
As each one entered and walked down
the room with quiet solemnity to the
supposed corpse and the sheet was
turned down, imagine their surprise
when they Saw-a dummy. This was
not the dummy Chas. Keir shot some
time ago, though he was called out at
two O'Clock Sunday morning and acted
on the cOroner's jury. Many dressed
in their Sunday suits to appear in the
presence of the dead. The crowd dis
appeared at two o'clock Sunday
morning to meet again Monday NOR n
Ing to hang the perpetratOr of the
April fool joke.
The next excitement was the elec-
tiOn of mayor and council. There
were two tickets, both headed Citi-
zen'S ticket. One was called the Kid
ticket and the other the Taxpayer
ticket. W. NJ. Massey healed the
Kid ticket and A. j. Wood the Tax.
payers ticket. The Taxpayers came
out ahead; all elected except one
councilman. Don't tell Mclaughlin,
Lamb, Fish and Chapman that Hon,
W. NJ. Massey, candidate for mayor,
owner of the MOcking Bird, leader OF
he Republican glee club, principal OF
the Oxford schools, one of the princi-
pal officers in three or four secret So
cieties and a prospective candidate
for some county office in the near fu-
ture, was defeated last Monday by our
honest village blacksmith, A. j.
Wood. Massey was sick last fall
when Mclaughlin was elected county
superintendent. Messages of condo
lence are now in order. He is very
sick with the blues and disappoint-
ment and as soon as he can travel will
20 up the briny river, where he hopes
TO meet Harrison and get some con-
servatism.
We hope to hear A. G. Forney speak
in the near future. He has made one
OF the best senators Sumner county
has ever had. Our people here are all
in favor Of the maximum freight bill.
This is an equitable freight reduc.
tiOn and will help all. Other bills
will help a few towns. We want a
bill that will help all alike.
Success to the VOICE. Yours,
JUSTICE.