People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-11-15
KANSAS STATE MATTERS.
WHAT THE JAYHAWKERS, ARE
DOING TO-DAY.
Condensed News from All Parts OF
the Great sunhower State-A Gem
sralsummary of Kansas New.

Condensed News from All Parts OF
the Great sunhower state-A Gem.
sral Summary of Kansas New.
Usage City coal sells for So ton 1T
the mines.
Beloit is beginning to talk irrigation
convention.
A local race meeting was held in
Hutchinson last week.
Bill Hackney is going to Cleveland
Ohio. to practice law.
The average daily attendance of the
Emporia public schools is 1,67s.
The average daily attendance of the
Fort Scott schools is more than 1000.
Twenty-three extra policemen were
on duty in Kansas City, Kansas Tues.
day.
c. I. Hessel will feed l,5OO sheen
this winter near Frankfort, Marshall
county.
The attendance at the Hutchinson
race meeting last Friday and Satur-
day was light.
The North Kansas Poultry Club will
hold its annual exhibition at Atchison
January Is.
John n. Ives said at Hutchinson Sun.
lay that Overmyer would have Co.
200 in the state Tuesday.
Last Friday there was transacted
real estate deal north of Topeka, by a
woman, that amounted to Sl65. PAS. %.
There is an Anfwiedeiseher club at
Winfield. They always serve onions
1t their entertainments in order to
take the taste of that terrible name
out Of their mouths.
United States court opened at Fort
Scott for a weeks session Wednesday
with Judge Foster on the bench.
Judge j. A. Williams, of Arkansas,
will relieve Judge Foster in case the
term lasts more than two weeks.
Several horses which were left tied
IN the streets of Junction City the
other night were ridden away by par
ties who had great indisposition to
walk. Some of the horses have come
back and others are still missing.
Many hogs in Miami county are af-
hicted with strange disease. John
Sheehan, who lives near Paola, has
lost 10 head since August l. The
Hesh falls from the bones of many of
the affected animals before death.
A novel election guessing contest is
On at Fort Scott. Guessers deposits a
dollar in box and guess at the plu-
ralitles. The one coming the nearest
gets so cent, the second 25 per cent,
the other 25 per cent goes to charity.
Carl Mueller has fled suit against
The city of Leavenworth for permitting
the electric car line to be operated in
front !of his residence. He alleges
that it Is nuisance, says that it OBJ
structs the street and demands that it
be removed.
State Fish commissioner J. NJ.
Wampler of Brazilton, has about 800
gold fish which he will distribute free
to Kansas applicants as long as they
last. No more than four will be sent
to one person. Each applicant must
send @5 cents to pay for a shipping
pail. g..
Thirty-nine Pullman car shop work.
ers and families, in all 126 persons.
arrived in Hiawatha last Monday.
They include some of the best work
men from the great Pullman shops.
Work will be rushed on the co-opera.
tive enterprise which uthese people
have come to Hiawatha to engage in.
The house and farm buildings, in
Guiding grain, five horses and imple-
ments of A. M. Engle, wealthy far
mer, near Abilene, burned last Sun
day night. Part of the household
furniture was saved. The loss was
$1,000; insurance $4,000, The cause is
unexplained.
More than $4,000 barrels of apples
have been shipped from Lawrence this
season. Ten thousand bushels were
worked up by the local evaporator
and $1,000 bushels of wind falls and
culls were worked up into cider.
The evaporation has paid 20 cents a
bushel and the cider mills from l2l5
to Is cents.
Chas. Mccoy has been arrested for
assault upon Caroline S. Turner, aged
II years. The warrant was issued
Saturday afternoon and placed in the
hands of the officers, but the defend
ant learning that he was wanted took
his departure for parts unknown, but
his whereabouts were ascertained by
the officers and he was apprehended
and placed in the county Jail.
"a dynamite cartride of the pattern
used by burglars for blowing open
safes, was found near the door of the
postoffice Saturday morning at Well
lngton, and evidence pointed to an
attempt to enter the building during