People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-08-25
KANSAS MATTERS.
Items Of Interest Condensed for Hurried
Readers.

Mcpherson county spent s3s, 220. lG
! on the public schools last year,
A man in Franklin county is going
to furnish election booths at 81 apiece.
w. T. Williams has moved his paper,
the Garfield county Call. to Arkansas.
1t will be hard to find a county fair
this year that does not sport a bicycle
race.
Lawrence is talking up bicycle
meet, TO be held after the university
opens.
An old gray haired phrenolOgist is
picking up quarters in Rawlins coun-
ty towns.
A bushel Of 60 pound wheat ex-
changes for thirty-fve pounds of -four
in Medicine LOcge.
Atwood claims 10 be doing more
building than the combined towns of
northwest Kansas.
The Newton creamery distributes
about $4,000 a month among Harvey
county farmers.
A rich vein of coal has been discov-
ed half mile south of Atchison on
Whiskey creek.
The old settlers Of Harvey county
will give picnic August 10 at Hal
stead.
A silver picnic is to be held at Doyles
grove near Udall in Cowley county
next week.
Ashlands ice gave out Tuesday. If
they get any more it will have to come
from Wichita.
In addition to a few other things
Kansas is at present afflicted with
three Uncle Toms Cabin" shows.
Hutchinson has an EARLY Risers"
tennis club, whose members get up to
play at 3 o'clock every morning.
Several Nemaha county farmers
claim that wheat can be made to real
ize 81 buShel by feeding it to hogs.
Alex Brown threshed 500 bushels of
wheat that tests over sixty pounds,
from forty acres of land south of
Greensburg.
The school teachers of Dickinson
county receive all the way from $50
to SIPS per month, with an average of
about S45.
The salt works at Hutchinson are
not running because they cannot get
coal. Several hundred men are out
OF work.
Judge /. Stillwell OF the seventh in
dicial district is taking an overland
trip to Arkansas and will be on the
road about month.
]. q. Brown, a well known polite
ian of Greedy county, has gone to Ber-
muda to visit his father who is one Of
the officials of the islands.
An athletic association has been or
ganized at Topeka, and expects to
erect a gymnasium and indulge in
physical culture next winter.
Bat Masterson, of Dodge City fame,
was arrested in Denver recently be-
cause he refereed a prize fight in Den
yer where one of the combatants died
just after the battle.
The have been twelve attachment
suits begun against the Kincaid bank
Of Pleasanton. The First National
bank Of West Winfield, n. Y. run ten,
amounting to $500.
The commissioners of Pawnee coun-
ty have reduced the tax levy for state
| and county purposes to nine and one
| half mills, which is believed to be one
of the lowest levies in the state.
The commissioners of Crawford
county have designated the First Ma
tional bank of Girard as the county
depository, that institution offering
5per cent interest on daily balances.
THE CHEROKEE STRIP BUSINESS
EXCHANGE AND PROTECTIVE
ASSOCIATION, WINFIELD,
KANSAS.
j. B. LYNN, Pres. T. Il. BERKEY, Sec.
Shares $500 each. Send to Secretary
for full information.
The Wichita banks are getting in
better shape than for four or five
years. 1t is quite probable they will
begin to pay dividends soon, some
thing which has not been done since
1855.
L W. Turner, ex-United States con-
sui to Cadiz, Spain, has formed a law
partnership at Mankato with Z. P.
HOtchkiss who was the candidate for
county attorney of Jewell county last
year.
Mrs. Kasold, a Lawrence lady, wants
a divorce. She AYERS that she has at
tended to her household duties, clerk
ed in her husbands store, minded an
adjoining butcher shop, and because
she was slow in waiting On customers
her husband abused her.
The Lawrence Quantrell Raid MOnu-
ment Association has been organized
and chartered at Lawrence. and has
for its objects the raising of funds and
the erection of a fitting memorial to
those who were the victims of Guam
trelrs murderous raid.
7. c. Henry, formerly of Abilene, is
having hard time in Colorado. Re-
Gently the sheriff sold stocks held by
Henry in various land, canal and town
companies TO satisfy judgement of
$4,000. The stocks were at one time
worth So, OOO, but sold for only s294..
%.
The enumeration of school children
OF Harper shows 237 boys and S55 girls.