People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-11-24
KANSAS MATTERS.
Items Of Interest Condensed for Hurrie
Readers.

Over s75, 900 acres have been sown
to wheat in Osborne county,
Ottawa is to have a series of revival
meetings in the Christian church.
The business men of Marysville are
going to organize board of trade,
The waters of Spirit spring near
Cawker City are to be bottled for med
zeal purposes.
Lawrence World: There are so
many crooks out at Junction City that
oven the river won't run straight.
The proposition to Issue $780, 900 in
bonds to build new court house car
ried in Shawnee county Tuesday. by a
large majority.
. The Underwood packing house at
Hutchinson has been thoroughly over
hauled and repaired and will soon re-
sumo operations.
Pickerell is the name of Hender-
son druggist, but he proved that he
was no fish when he engaged in that
business in Kansas.
There is a prospect that the mer-
chants of Wellington will soon be able
to see things by another light, as the
city is being canvassed for an mean
descent electric light plant.
If the Tribune is needed the recent
big fire at Chanute will prove to have
been blessing in disguise. The next
day after it occurred that paper be-
gan agitating for improved water
works.
The Kansas NJ. E. conferences next
year will be held as follows At ABB
lene, March Z, Bishop Vincent; South
Kansas, at Parsons March IA; South
estiKansas at Wellington, March 81:
Northwest Kansas, at Goodland, 2S, by
Bishop Mallalieu.
The form of the Fort Scott Monitor
has been changed and it is much i'm
proved in appearance. The Monitor
is staunch Republican paper and it is
to be hoped it will meet with the sup
port it deserves from the business men
of Fl. Scott, the interests of whom it
never neglects.
The Peoples Fire Insurance compa-
ny of Manchester, n. H. which has
been doing business in this state, has
gone into the hands of receiver. The
policy holderl in the state will lose
nothing, however, as the insurance
companies have to deposit bond be-
fore they can do business in Kansas.
The report that the damage case
against the Hosier Bros. and the Mis =
souri,, Kansas & Texas Railway com
pany in Chautauqua county, growing
out of Texas fever infection, had been
compromised, has been denied by all
the parties in interest. A compro-
mise is, however, under considera-
ton.
The largest acreage of grain ever
planted has been sown in Graham
county this year. The elements were
favorable for the seeding of that
county. Hundreds of acres are up
and doing nicely. The prospects are
encouraging. D. J. Hanna, Of Hill
City. has sown 700 acres. besides fur
ai>hing the seed for 500 more.
The Topeka State Journal says that
Ex-Governor Click is in town, but that
he is hiding from 1900 office seekers
that are in the capital looking after
him. 4 About the only thing that any
body knows concerning the make up
of the clerical force in the pension
Office under the new regime, is that
there will be no women in it.
With an evident disposition to dis
turb the equities between neighbors
the Kansas City Star fires this explo-
Sive into their midst:
Salinas football team beat Abb
iene IA to 2. Abilene may be all right
when it comes to Lanier circles and
European diplomats, but as kickers-
dear, dear, dear; Abilene is clearly
outclassed by the salt creek town"
Onion sscials are the latest agony
in fashionable circles in Fort Scott.
They are novel This is how they are
conducted: Six young ladies stand in
a row and one bites chunk out of an
onion which is then turned over to
the young men for inspection. The
one who guesses which one of the
young ladies bit the onion kisses the
other five ladies. If he fails to guess
he is allowed only to- kiss the girl
who bit the onion.
The matter of appointing a receiver
to take the affairs of Baily's bank at
Chanute from the hands of Seth Baily
the executor and settle them in favor
of the depositors. creditors and stock
holders of the bank, was argued be-
fore Judge Stillwell at lola Saturday
upon an agreed statement of facts
submitted by the attorney general,
Commissioner Breidenthal and the at
torney of the bank. j. J. Hurt Of
Chanute is mentioned as likely to be
the receiver.
Two women went to the dry goods
SDuse of Richardson & Co., at Yelling
ton Thursday, and desired to look at
some cloaks. While in the cloak de-
partment the mother asked to see
some goods in another portion of the
house, and while they were absent the
daughter wrapped fine S25 cloak
around her waist under her dress. in
such a manner that she nearly escaped
detection. When she came out to the
front part of the store the clerk no.
ticed that she was acting strangely
and at once suspected that she was
a shoplifter. He called Deputy Sher.
if Ed Morse who was passing by and
after al investigation Mr.. Richardson
relieved her of the cloak as delicately
as possible under the circumstances.