People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-11-24

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along to have CLUB" that gets kegs
off the midnight train.
/ Osawatomie has a school enroll.
ment of 5O4 and the average attend
ance for October was 447.
A converted barber is filling North
Topeka pulpit and is making a good
reputation as an orator.
There are 40, 1873 bearing apple trees,
PAPA bearing peach trees and l,34e
bearing pear trees in Chase county.
Sweet potatoes that weigh tive
pounds each and onions shat produce
800 bushels to the acre are grown in
Usage county.
The old soldiers in Lincoln county
have elected the following officers for
the county organization. President,
c. A. Kelso; first vice president, H. W.
Stubblefeld; second vice president; j.
+. Ayars; secretary, Jacob Amberg;
treasurer. b. Rea.
A Topeka physician and chemist
claims to have discovered prepare
ton that will render wood almost
ireproof. 1t will also preserve wood
from decay. A company will be or.
ganised to manufacture the COM
pound.
An investigation of the shooting
and supposed robbery of NJ. +. Camp
bell, a Larned saddler in his shop on
Thursday, has raised the presumption
that he shot himself to obtain 5000
insurance for the loss of hand. 1t
has been ascertained that he himself
bought, in Great Bend, the gun which
he claimed to have taken from the
robber,
A Kansas man carries off the bak-
cry for the latest display of economy.
A Kansas avenue merchant of Topeka
received postal card from him the
other day, on half of which was writ
ten an order for bill of goods for his
store: on the other half was another
order for more goods of another kind
from a merchant in the next block to
whom the first merchant was request
ed to deliver the card.
The ArmoIrdale foundry has cas-:
eighty electric stoves for the 81
road. They are of the same pattern
as those now in use. Four heaters
were used last winter in each car, but
with the completion of the present or
der, six heaters will be placed in each
ca. Those now in use hBve demon.
strated that the electric current can
be used very successfully in heating
the cars and making them comfort
able.
The Fort Scott paper mill is now in
foil running order. and is making
from six TO ten tons of paner daily
from the waste from the sorghum su.
gar mill. The Dispatch recently print
ed a supplement on a sample of the
paper, which appears to be rather too
brittle for practical use as wrapping
paper, for which purpose it Is intend
ed. AS the material from which it is
made has heretofore been entirely a
waste, it is hoped that the manufac-
turers will succeed in producing a bet
ter grade of paper
Percy McNeal and. George Russell,
the two patients who escaped from
the Topeka insane asylum on Monday
afternoon, have both been captured
and returned to the asylum. Russell
was found at his home in Pottawato-
mic county, to which he always re-
turns, this being the third time he has
escaped. McNeal was, arrested at OF
tawa by the sheriff. He was semitic
the penitentiary for burglary com
mitted in Franklin county, but was
transferred to the asylum On account
of sickness.
Minnie Baker filed petition in the
district court at Wichita Thursday,
asking fol decree of divorce from
her husband George Baker. She al
leges that George was very cruel to
her, that he was able-bodied and
wouldn't work, that she had to sup
port the family for years, that he sold
all the furniture in the house some
time ago, put every cent of the money
in his pocket, deserted her and her
baby, who was the first and only
pledge of her love.
The United States pension Office at
Topeka was transferred Thursday by
Pension Agent Bernard Kelly to his
successor, Hon. George w. Click, who
filled the same position under the for
mer administration of President
Cleveland. Mr.. Click will retain the
present Office force until December /,
wheu number of changes in clerk
ships will be announced Chief Clerk
j. P. Howe will be retained perma-
nently in Office, and a good place will
be provided for Hon. Thomas Moon
light, who is close personal friend
VI VIC HCN dBCnO'
Thursday morning at Larned when
NJ. E. Campbell, a harness dealer
went to his shop and opened the rear
door to sweep out, he was confronted
by two men, who, covering him with
a shot gun demanded his money
Campbell seized the gun and scuffie
ensued during which he was shot
through the left hand, the charge Of
shot tearing the hand all to pieces
He was then oVerpowered by then
and robbed of Sl72. The robbers then
ran out of the back door and escaped
In the United States court at Ard
more, Monday, Judge Stuart decided
the question raised in the applications
of the two Cherokees, Williams anc
Christie, now under sentence of death
in the courts Of that nation, to be re
leased under writ of habeas corpus
lie held that the constitution of the
United States is operative upon tn,
courts of the five civilized tribes. tina