People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-09-01
KANSAS MATTERS.
Items OF Interest Condensed for Hurried
ReaderI.


Readers.
A 14-year-old girl was licensed 10
wed at Topeka last week.
A week of coursiug will be given at
Great Bend commencing October "a.
The delinquent tax list of Trego
county is lighter than for many years.
The library of the state university
contains twelve complete sets of
Shakspeares works.
Kansas is one of the greatest silk
producing states in the Union this
year-it's on Inc corn.
Wsshburn COLLEGE, Topeka, Kansas, for
both sexes Fine grounds, six buildings.
preparatory. Normal and Collegiate courses.
One OF the hest colleges in the West Fall
term opens Sept Is. PETER McvIcAR, Presi-
dent.
The teachers examination in forty
or the JOG counties of the state occur
on August % and 26.
Hutchinson makes great claims to
being musical center. Choruses
with 100 voices are not uncommon
there.
Dora GOsser tells about one of his
hired men who is so lazy that he gets
up at 4 o'clock in the morning to have
more time to loaf.
Crap shooting has become such a
mania in Topeka that forty devotees
now languish in the city prison in con-
sequence OF their persistent iudulg-
ence,
The Walnut Valley ASSOCIATION of
Baptist churches held their annual
meeting IN Ell Dorado, beginning on
Tuesday, Aug. %, at 11:3O o'clock a.
IN.
Brown county has corn with sworn
calculation of fourteen inches to the
ear, four ears to the stalk and five
stalks to the hill. Beat that if you
can.
A tax levy for all city purposes at
Topeka this year is 20 clio mills, be-
ing an increase of $40 of mill over
last year, owing to decreased valua-
ton.
A St. Joe race FLY is named catch
ison Girl" That is an aspersion on
Atchison, by implication-ot course
the owner of the FLY expects her to be
fast.
The pride of Newton in her boom
additions is contained in the wealth
OF sunhowers that simmer in the
sunlight, circling the city as by field
OF cloth of gold.
Lon Cobb of Parsons, Kansas, form
ly gambler of Atchison, won a prize
tight at Parsons Friday night, knock
ing his man out in the ninth round.
The fight was for 81, 500 side.
The quarterly examination of the
books and cash account of the treas
urer of Harvey county this week dis
closed the presence of So, 694. 40 on
hand and the accounts all straight.
1t is reported that the state officials
will go to Chicago in Sci TENDER in a
special Pullman train furnished by
thr Missouri Pacific road. The oc.
casion of their visit will be the cele-
bration Of Kansas day.
Colonel A. NJ. FlOry, a prominent
and highly honored citizens of En-
poria, died at his home in that place
last Saturday. Colonel Flory had
many friends in Kansas who will learn
OF his death with deep regret,
The Republican says the there has
never been in the history of Emporia
such scarcity of houses for rent.
The fact that there are so many i'm
provements being made, and that
there are no vacant houses, is good
evidence that Emporia is progressing.
The sheriff at Larned has been re-
quested to summons a posse to pro-
tect Aunt" Bicer. companion of the
woman driven out of town Tuesday.
from mob. She has been notified to
leave town or she would be hung. Her
sympatizers say that they will protect
her and she will remain. A conflict
is feared.
Bob Russell, owned in Junctio
City, a 4-year-old, lowered his Swear
old record at Holton, Friday. He
took second money and was given a
mark of 2:l54. He went to the half
in los. This is the first race of the
season, and his workouts have none
been faster than 2:16.
The condition of corn in Coffev and
Anderson counties is most favorable,
and most Of it is already in the hard,
ening stage. The Burlington Nonpa-
reil says crops promises a handsome
return. Old corn is worth 25 cents on
the streets of Burlington, and con-
siderable is going in
The state school fund commission
ers Monday evening bought $50,
worth of & per cent. school bonds from
the United States Trust company of
Kansas City. The bonds are from
EmpOria, Kansas City, Kan, and
Baxter Springs. This leaves only
$500 in the school fund.
The Santa Fe officials in Topeka
were notified the first of the week of
a bad washout on the Canon CITY
branch in Co oradO. The track was
under water for a distance of three
miles. Bridges Nos. 537. Sos and 5s7
were washed out. Trains can not
pass along the branch, but those on
the main line are not affected. This
means more water in the Big river in
Kansas.
From almost every county in the
western part of the state comes the
report that the farmers are getting
the bulk of their fall blowing done
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