People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-09-01


this year that does not sport bicycle
race.
The pensions of twenty-six of tho
veterans at the Soldiers home al
Leavenworth were suspended last
week.
Several persons are training horses
on the fair grounds in order to make
runs for claims on the strip, at Win
field.
There is an organized kick all over
Kansas about the celebrity with which
the state board of pardons is letting
out criminals.
Several ribbon counters at Parsons
are threatened with desertion, owing
to the fact ''troup" is being organ
lied in that town.
In the vicinity of Great Bend the
heaviest rain for months fell Monday
afternoon. The precipitation added
! considerably to the volume of water
in the Big river
The literary people of Abilene were
fooled into reading Poe's Gold Bug
at current events evening recently,
thinking TO get more light on the
financial situation.
Jack, the Kangaroo, didn't box at
Topeka. There were $50 people pres
ent and only III tickets sold so the
managers refused to exhibit. A queer
/ set, those managers.
Topeka is liable to break out in
fresh volume of dam it. any minute.
The dam builders are expected to ar.
rive in the city within day or two
for the purpose of lasSoing the Kaw.
The Lawrence Quantrel Raid Monu-
ment association has been incorporat-
ed. Its purpose is to solicit funds for
the erection of monument in honor
of the Lawrence people who were
massacred August q, 1868.
Governor Lewelling Monday APP
pointed S. S. King of Wyandotte coun-
ty, and c. ]. Fitzgerald son of Judge
Fitzgerald of St Marys, to be add.
tional delegates to the Gulf transpor-
tatiOn convention to be held in Chi
cago.
Byron Roberts has filed his bond for
$4,000, glveh as a receiver for the
Hutchinson and Southern railroad.
His bondsmen are John r. Mulvane
and W. W. Manspeaker of Topeka.
The bond was approved by Judge
c. G. Foster.
Receiver D. II. Chamberlain, of the
South Carolina railroad, has made ar
engagements to give large number of
the roads employees free trip to the
worlds fair The aims will run from
Charleston through to Chicago, start
ing on the lst
August 2S the fifth district q. A. Il.
reunion will commence at Salina and
last three days. The Republican says
the people of Salina are making pre-.
paratiOns to entertain the old soldiers
at that time in the most sumptuous
and gorgeous manner.
The irrigation convention to meet
in Salina the 2Sth of next month is at
tracing much attention and will
make step in the right direction, in
earnest. Successful irrigation in
western Kansas means millions of
added wealth to The state.
Mock, the slayer of Fullam in
Leavenworth few DAYS ago, return
ed to that place Wednesday and sur.
rendered to the civil authorities. He
says he killed Fullam because the lat
ter abused his (Mock's) wife. An ex.
tenuating circumstance.
Clause Williams, a carpenter, at
Memphis, Sunday afternoon shot and
killed II. T. McDaniels, a furniture
mover, 20 years old, on Second street,
in the business quarter of the city.
Williams was jealous Of McDaniels' at
tentiOns to Mrs Williams.
For ''the most moral city in the
state" as claimed, Topeka shows de-
gree of criminality that makes some
of the wicked towns shudder. Last
Sunday evening Ed McGruder, aged
10, stabbed and killed Ed Enox, aged
! IS, over debt of 5 cents.
The Garden City Imprint says, "it
the newspapers of the East will Just
keep hands off of Western Kansas we
/ will be able to get along without much
assistance from them in the way of
material aid, or of their gratuitous adj
vice, which, though it costs them moth
ing, they are very lavish in giving"
w. E. Hutchinson has TWENTY-FIVE
acre field of alfalfa on his farm which
he has cut seventy-ive tons of hay
this year, and there are ut least two
tons per acre on the ground now which
will be ready to cut in a very few
days. he land was seeded in 1890.
This years crop is worth at least $50
per acre.
There are at least two points on the
Kansas-Colorado line that take the
name of both states. One is where
the Union Pacific crosses the line
which is known as Kanorado; the 9TH
er is some distance south where the
Missouri Pacific crosses the line, and
is called Colokan. But neither of
these combines in names is as bad as
that of 0karche, one of the county
seats Of the Arapahoe-Cheyenne coun-
try in Oklahoma.
The Monitor says a TT. Scott boy
cured his mare from baking by sim.
ply tying her to the fence when and
where she stopped and letting her
stay there until evening without food
or water. This is equal to the exploit
of the ElDorado man and his dog.
The owner was Dragging to visitor
of how intellipent and Ohad;ar+ he