People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-02-02
In a match hunt in Cove county last
week 1O7 rabbits were slaughtered.

The Topeka Bicyclist Protective
association, with a membership of 100
has been organized.
The Union Pacific is reducing the
force at Ellis. Eleven men were laid
off in one day last week
The Cincinnati Price Current re-
ports 10000 bushels of wheat in the
hands of Reno county farmers on Jan
uary l.
) A Sheridan county man caught an
eagle measuring nearly seven feet
from tip to tip, in a wolf trap last
week.
The Union Pacific railroad Y. NJ. c.
A. of Ellis has a membership of AS,
sixty-two of whom died during the
last year.
The graduates of the Holton high
school number ZIG. OF these eighty
seven were girls and twenty-nine
were boys.
The biggest barber pole in the state
is at Lincoln. 1t is a twenty foot Sec
ton of smoke stack, painted red,
white and blue.
The Hays City Sentinel says the test
of young mans popularity with the
Goodland girls is how many jack rab-
bits his hounds have caught.
The Sun aud Journal of Johnson
City, Stanton county, have been pur-
chased by Messrs Riley & Hamaran,
who will consolidate the two papers
Garden City has lawsuit involving
some $50, 900 on her hands. The point
of dispute is over contract providing
for the setting of large number of
shade trees.
The new German Evangelical church
at Holton, built at a cost of $1,000,
was dedicated last Sunday. More
than 81, 500 was raised on that day to-
ward clearing the church debt.
A Sterling man who has been in the
Rice county Jail for several months
for refusing to pay his road tax, has
just been released by the county COM
missioners. His tax is not yet paid.
Orders have been telegraphed for
new machinery to take the place of
that ruined by the burning of the
handle factory at Parsons last week,
and manufacturing will be under way
again in sixty days.
In the German reichsta g Monday
Secretary of the Interior Boettiche I
replying to question, declared that
wages generally had an upward tend
ency and that the condition of the
working people was improving.
The president has signed the bills to
authorize the construction and main.
tenance of dam across the Kansas
river within Shawnee county, Kansas,
and extending the time for the con-
stIuctlon of the Choctaw railway.
6 A clothing store at Washington was
burglarized one night last week and
several suits of clothing taken. Bur.
glars have entered the store on sew
eral previous occasions but were never
before successful in obtaining any
thing.
Ellsworth ingalls,, receiver of the
Norton Comfy State Bank, got an or
der from Judge Caldwell at Little
Rock, on Saturday last, authorizing
the reorganization of the bank. 1t is
expected that the bank will resume
operations in about two weeks.
Captain A. e. Carpenter has sold his
farm of 294 acres near Lenexa, to ;
Mr.. Pryor Yokum of Kansas City, al
casL. This sale goes to prove tha'
johnson county land Is still considered
gilt-edged investment by well in
formed business men.-0lathe Mirror
1 Kansas City, Kan, is nearer on
cash basis to-day than she has beef
before since the consolidation of tn
cities at the Kaw's mouth seven year
ago. On Wednesday tie city treas
urer sent check for S75,c00 to New
York to take up large block of til,
bonds now due.
Station Agent W. A. Lewis informe'
Bee reporter that notwithstanding
the hard times the tonnage to an,
from Frankfort for the month of De
cember, 1898, WAS l,966.Sl0 pound
more than the corresponding month o
1892, and the increase in the earning
was 81, J57. 62.-Frankfort Bee.
: Work has been commenced on tn
J creamery here and will be rapid
pushed to completion as fast as al
rangements can be made. We ar
confident that this will be great ben
, eft to the surrounding country in fur
nishing the highest price for the pre-
ducts of the farm.-Minneapolis Mes
, senger.
The Associated Charities of Law
renee announce the performance O
1.-The Old 0aken Bucket" by amateu
talent as a means of raising relic
funds. The play will be presente
February / and 2, and will be unde
| the direction of Miss Georgia Brown
The new Democratic national can
paign committee held its first meetin
at Washington Saturday, and selecte
Representative Stevens of Massachr
sets as chairman, and Representative
: Mutchler of Pennsylvania as secretary
4 The election of permanent officers wa
= postponed.
The Missouri Pacific employees VIII
tried to move the Chico, Saline county
depot on a Sabbath and were arreste
for breaking the Sunday law, plea
i guilty the other day before Gypsur
CITY Justice and were fined in sma
S amounts. The company paid the fine
[ and costs.
e The Junction City schools WEI