People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-07-13
KANSAS STATE MATTERS.
WHAT THE JAYHAWKeRS ARE
DOING TO-DAY.
Condensed News from All Parts OF
the Great sunnower State-A Gem
eral Summary of Kansas New.

1
The mercury ran IN to 90 at Abilene
last week.
! Rainmakers commenced worl; at
Winfield Monday.
Seven hundred pies are baked every
saturday at the Soldiers Home.
A new G. A. R. rost has been mus.
tered in at Kanorado, Sherman county,
There are ten stations in Ottawa
county for the distribution of chinch
bug infection.
Burlingame has BeelSeepers Asso.
cation. There are very few such in.
Stitutions in the state.
The Salina paper mill vii. re,ume
operations in few days, as soon as
the new straw begins to come in.
Lawrence paid more during June for
sending paupers ont o: town than dur.
ing any other month this year.
he commissioners of Cowlev coun-
" are talking of getting one the rain
makers to make it rain for them.
The average velocity Of the wind at
Dodge City during the past seventeen
years has been twelve miles an hour.
The Canadian thistle, terrible pest
TO eastern farmers, IS spreading rapid
~ IN Kansas. It IS found now as far
west as BelOit.
More than half the daily papers in
the state suspended publication on the
Fourth in order to allow their employ
es to celebrate.
., Corn in the Southern Kansas corn
fields is in roasting ears" In the
haw valley only the early fields have
begun to tassel
The enrolment in the Sedgwick
county Normal institute is 969, more
than at any institute yet held in the
state this season.
The Winfield city council is discuss,
ing proposition to put a special $500
tax on all drug stores which dispense
intoxicating liquors.
The Home mine at LeayenwO-th has
reduced the rate on mine run coal to
80 cents a ton and there may be anoth-
er strike because Of it.
4 few car loads of ties hauled to
junction City some months as a bluff
on an electric line to Fort Riley, were
last week hauled back to Kansas City.
The Republic City creamery has
gone into the hands of receiver, be-
cause of the fact, the News SAYS that.
the man who was placed at the head
OF the concern is pointed, Ialpable,
expert ass.
A company composed mostly of Kan
Sas men has received a charter from
the territorial secretary Of Oklahoma
authorizing them to build a railroad
from Arkansas City to Eagle Pass,
Texas. The company is capitalized at
$4,000 600
Frank O'Brien, son OF John O'Brien
of Halstead, was drowned while swim
ing N the Little Arkansas river in the
grove at HalStead the other day. lie,
with number OF other boys, was bath
ing in the river, when Frank, who was
only l. years OF age, got beyond his
depth and sank.
A channel has been made IN the lake
at Lakeview by removing the moss
from the center OF the lake. The re-
cent rains have filed the lake, but the
club members are talking of putting
y dam across the lake to prevent the
possibility OF its becoming dry.-Law-
renee journal.
Judge Martin at Newton has grant
ed a new trial in the breach of prom
Use case. a former trial of which gave
Miss Lillian WOlfersberger of Phila-
delphia verdict against DR.. Geo. A.
MacElree for S6,7?7. The Judge saws
and has set the verdict aside
Prot SHOWS ehinch bug extermina.
tor mas been thoroughly tested at the
state experiment station at Manhattan
this spring without the slightest indi-
cations of any good results. Foreman
Burtis says that even with the most
careful adherence to instructions it
has proved hat failure.
The offices of the Adams and Amerl-
can express companies I TT. Scott
have been consolidated. nd all of me
business OF both companies will be at,
tended to hereafter by one agen.
Such combinations between these two
companies are commonin the East but
there IS no other in Kansas. I
The Camp Meeting to be held Us the
Methodist people at the ChR9tau1ua
grounds at Winfield Aug. 93rd to Sept.
3rd, promises to be an occasion of
great interest. Tents for rent, and
good boarding at reasonable rates can
be had on the grounds. For informa.
ton, address with stamp, Rev. A. L.
Bruner, Winfield, Kansas.
The Chautauoua meeting wh;ct has
Just closed at Winfield has been a
financial success. The association has
elected NJ. T. Kerr of Winfield. and T.
B. Conway of Arkansas City, as direc.
tors to fill the unexpired term of L.
W.ATrcutand Amos Walton. The di.
rectors will meet July 10th, and or
ganize by electing q president, secre
tary, and treasurer.
A fellow who had been fined 81. 90 il
the Fort Scott police court and lacked
the wherewithal to liquidate PLAYED
the court for sucker by informing il
that he had been examined by doctor:
who informed HIM that he was liable
to drop dead any moment As tn,
Judge did not want to run any risk O.