People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-09-08

1nree new Smiths nave broken into
Kansas politics on two county tickets
in Osborne county.
Barber county's tax levy had to be
increased to provide funds to meet the
expenses of the county.
T. c. Simons has retired from the
Caldwell News as associate editor to
take up the law business.
Ex-senator ]. G. Mohler of Salina
has formed law partnership in Chi.
cago to take effect November /.
The presence in that city of Jack
the Hugger, the Hutchinson News
says, is breeding a bee or cold lead
seance.
The local papers say the Santa Fe
shops in Topeka are at standstill.
They will be closed probably through
September.
Chetopa is making preparations for
a big soldiers reunion on October ~.
Some of the best speakers in Kansas
will be there.
The little town of Morrill, has a la
dies quartette. The lady who sings
bass is also president of the equal suf-
frage club in that town.
Judge Almerin Gillett, of Emporia,
married Wednesday to Miss Anna B.
Zimmerman, of Hutchinson, at the
brides home in that city.
AT Winona, Mimi, a sensational
breach of promise suit has been fled
by Lilly c. Clement against Seymour
W. Brown, a wealthy attorney.
Ex-Governor Ira ]. Chase, of Indi-
ana, is to deliver the principal address
at the dedication of the new Christian
church at Washington, Kans., on Sept.
10.
Mrs. Ellen P. Allerton, the Kansas
poet, died at Padonia, Brown county,
Friday morning. Mrs. Allerton's poem,
1.-The Walls of Corn" made her fam
Gus.
Hon. George w. Jones, formerly as
sistant state superintendent of public
instruction, has been elected superin-
tendent of the public schools of Mound
City.
The Greeley commissioners Of Gree
ley county last week paid out 500 for
wolf scalps. One man tried to run in
scalps that he had bought in another
county.
The people of Wallace county voted
on proposition last week to increase
the tax levy ten mills to provide boun-
ty for wolf scalps and it carried by
eighteen majority.
Heretofore the sheriff of Wyandotte
county has received fees amounting to
about $4,000 year, but this will be
cut down undeLth new mortgage law
to less than one half.
The next sitting of the state SUI
preme court will be held Sept. s. 1t is
probable, however, that Judge Horton
will dispose of some accumulated bust.
ness before that time.
Prairie chickens are ripe enough to
pluck, but woe to the sportsman that
hunts them on some other mans farm.
They say it costs 500 each to shoot
prairie chickens this fall.
The board of railroad assessors has
made the following dates for this
week: Harper county, Sept. 5; Sedg-
wick county, Sept. 6; Clark county,
Sept. z; Marion county, Sept. 8.
While there are no shafts at work at
Weir City yet except No. IS and the
shafts where the negroes work, still
the strike is practically over. The
pay will be sc cents for mine run coal.
A particularly bold and attrocious
highway robbery was that which be-
reft Mr.. James Fitzpatrick of Galena
of all the clothes he wore and his
chewing tobacco one night last week.
The first crime committed at Bald
win City since the trustees of Baker
university prohibited the students
from indulging in athletic games was
the stealing of bar of soap from the
village store last week.
The London Post declares the pres
ept attitude of France can only mean
it is her intention TO reduce Siam to a
state Of servitude. Il condemns the
course adopted by the British foreign
Office in the Siam matter.
Under the new election law the coun-
ty clerk is required to have all election
tickets printed and distributed to the
different polling places, All that the
voters have to do is to vote-and pay
the costs of the new scheme.
0ystermen have just completed the
examination of the beds in the vicini-
ty of Bridgeport, Conn.,, and find a
very promising crop-larger than usu-
al. 1t was thought the entire crop
was loss, owing to the late storm.
Out of ZIG banks in this state so far
heard from fifteen are in debt to New
York banks, the aggregate amount of
of SOS, 127.S7. The New York banks
are in debt to these PIG banks in the
sum of Sl65, 455.1s.
The Mail is authority for the state
ment that a citizen of Wellington has
corrupted the morals of his dog to the
extent that he will climb up on the
ends of farmers wagons and pull down
watermelons for the wicked city chaps
to eat.
A tramp was surprised by Pitts
burg housewife last week, who, in re-
Spouse to the request that he be helped
along little, presented him with
pan of water and a cake of soap. The
tramp tainted, but the Pittsburg
woman was firm as the rock of ages.
All the railroads Of the state have