People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-03-30
KANSAS MATTERS.
Condensed News from All PARIS Of
the Great Sunfiower State-A Gem
eral Summary of kansas New.

WIN Pi"utlllg - well under Nay ~
several southeastern counties.
Linds6urg has tanning factory.
Operations were begun this week.
A Girard man has been appointed
postmaster at Brazilton. Crawford
county.
The Highland university building at
lhawatha was slightly damaged by
fire last Wednesday.
The Ware library 1T Fort Scott. ae-
cording to the legend over the door. is
permanently closed"
Chanute is to have a new Sal .OGO
water works plant. The contract has
been awarded to Texas firm.
$1,000 creamery is in process Of
construction at Winfield. II is pr,
posed to operate it on AN extensive
scale. .sss
n company, having for its Cbiect the
manufacture of windmillS. has been
formed at Chapman, Dickinson
county.
Will Irwin of Thomas county will
put in $50 acres of broom corn this
season on his place three miles east of
Colby.
A new creamery VII begin opera
tons at Circleville, jackson. April |.
The milk from 500 cows is already
pledged.
Arrangements have been made for
planting sixty-acre tract of land
near Paola, Miami county, TO tobacco
this spring.
A Logan Phillips county. man is 90
ing to plant forty acres to pumpkins
this spring. He has made arrange
ments to irrigate
One OF the State University students
who was dropped from the rolls in
January, is street car conductor in
Kansas City now.
Two car loads of horses were
shipped from Manhattan to Connect.
cut one day last week, and one car
load to West Virginia.
A cOlored soldier was seriously in
lured at Leavenworth Thursday night
IN saloon row. 1t took good deal
Of sewing to patch him up
sc. Walker has shipped 81, 900 worth
OF eggs in the past four months. The
poultry of the county brings in about
$40, 200 a vear.-La Crosse Clarion.
Thirty charter members have been
secured for Il new camp of Sons of
Veterans that viii be instituted at
Chapman, Dickinson county. shortly.
The treasurer OF the A. O. L. W.
lodge of Kansas Citv, Kan. who sud.
denly disappeared, has been found
more than $500 short in his accounts.
There is talk of rebuilding the Han
over mill, destroyed by fire some time
ago inside the city limits and convey
ing power to 1t by means of cleo
.ricity.
The ice factory scheme on which IL.
dependence citizens have been bank
ing for some time has fizzled ont, only
to be replaced by another which prom.
ises to be sue go,
The price Of mining has bcca cut
down to 81, u per ton. This Is fifteen
cents below the summer price, and
thirty five cents below the winter
price.-0sage City Free Press.
o. P. Kimmcl, young and prosper.
GUS sheep raiser of South Center. has
increased his flock. He recently pur.
chased 500 head from Edwards county
parties. -Jetmore Sunhower.
The Central Branch mixed train
from the west, due at Atchson al 2:3O
a. m, went through Tuesday morning
in three sections. Two full trains
were laden with stock bound for
market.
The present output of the Mound
ridge, Mcpherson county, creamery is
9,4OO pounds per week. The price paid
for mix was S 30 a hundred in Octo.
Der, November and December. So cents
in January, and 90 cents in Februaryl
A fellow tried to commit suicide by
taking rough on rats in Wichita
court room Saturday, and was pre-
vented only after hard fight. As it
was, he succeeded in swallowing some
of the poison. and had to be pumped
out.
The 1894 session of the Winfield
Chautauqua assembly will be held at
Island Park, beginning June 20.
The Concordia Empire is Directing
because the cost Of keeping Cloud
county's poor during the past three
months has been more than twice as
great as in the neighboring county
The quarterly bill footS up to over
5000.
Wagner Bros, whose feed lots are
northwest OF Burlingame, Usage
county, have now on hand $40 feeders.
and are buying more. They believe
there is money in buying on the pres
ent low market and feeding ont for
sale later on.
Clyde Mattoy, in the penitent ary at
Lansing, is the recipient of dozens
and dozens of letters, although
he has been confined where he is now
for less than week. Warden Chase
says that most OF the letters are from
women. precious few of whom bear
good regulations"
John H. Crider, an attorney for
CLANCY Leslie fled suit in the dis !
trict court Thursday asking S.. 800
damages from the Missouri Pacific
railway company. Mr.. Leslie claims
that he was passenger on that road
last January, and that by reason of
the train not stopping, in attempting |
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