People's voice., 1894-03-23

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The Kansas Commoner ran a four.
teen-column report of the Shaup.
Webb contest case last week.
The patrons Of the Great Bend tele.
phone exchange want the annual rem.
tai reduced from $50 to S2i.
R The Ellinwood, Barton county.
school board has voluntarily raised
the wages Of teachers S. a month all
around.
The Kearney county irrigatine
ditch has been repaired end put IN
condition for carrying good head Of
water.
A great many Santa Fe section
hands have been laid off in the south.
western counties during the last two
weeks.
The commissioners of Clark county
have brought down many male<ict;ons
upon their heads by raising the salary
of the county treasurer.
A Harper county man insists by all
that is holy that he made six porkers
weigh 995 pounds each at six months
old by feeding them on nothing but
! ground wheat.
Water has been turned into most of
the Finney county irrigating bitches
and the farmers have been making
good use of it in irrigating their whea.
fields and orchards.
The consolidation Of the Garden
City and Lakin land offices will be
effected the latt ,r part of this month
and the new Dodge City Office will
open up for business April /.
]. NJ. HERES of Hoisington pleaded
guilty to the charge Of habitual
drunkenness before the probate Judge
OF Barton county last week and
guardian was appointed for him.
A l5-year-old lad named Edward
Foreman, who attempted to cross the
tracks of the NJ. K. & T., at Fl Scott
the other morning just in front Of
switch engine, slipped, fell, and was
caught by the engine before he could
regain his feet. He lived only an
hour.
Two lads, eleven and seventeen
years respectively. narrowly escaped
drowning in Wilson county the other
day. They attempted to ford the Yer.
digris near Benedict and missed the
crossing. The team was drowned and
the boys saved themselves with great
difficulty.
Wichita is just aching to get INTO To.
peka's shoes as the place for holding the
state fair. As soon as it was learn ed
that no state fair is likely to be held
at Topeka next fall, the fair associa.
tion met, changed its name from the
Wichita Agricultural and Mechanical
Fair association to the State Fair As.
sociation, and resolved to call the next
fair 'state" fair.
A prominent farmer named Arch
Young, OF Logan township, Allen
county, met with fatal accident one
day last week. He was riding horse
and leading two to water, when by
some means he was thrown from the
animal he was riding, and in the fall
he struck the back part OF his head on
a stone. His skull was fractured and
he died within few hours.
The men who have been running a
drift" into capitol" for L. d. Var
lex struck seven-fooot vein of gyp-
sum yesterday afternoon, The rock
is OF the same excellent quality as
that found in other places around here
and it will probably not be long be-
FIRE another plaster mill is created to
utilize this Lew bed of gypsum.-Blue
Rapids Times.
The Kansas City, Kan. stockyards
are attracting shipments from all
parts Of the west, south, and north.
Some weeks ago a shipment Of cattle
from Mississippi was received, and on
Wednesday five car loads of steers
were in from North Dakota. The in
dications are that it will not be long
before Kansas will have a more i'm
portant stock market at its own Kan.
Kansas City than Illinois has at Chi
cago.
Joseph Goetzel of Cheyenne town
ship sold his farm of 16O acres 10 Mr..
Liebel last week for $1,000. Mr.. Goe.
tzel will remove to the Strip, Mr..
Kohler of Logan, who is also going to
Oklahoma, disposed of his eighty acre
farm for 500. Here are two real es-
tate deals the average price being SIG
per acre, which shows the value our
own people place ON Barton county
realty, and it is but fair to say that
some Of this land is far below the av-
erage in quality Of soil.-Great Bend
Register.
Eighty thousand bushels Of corn is
being held at Shannon by farmers on
speculation. The have been offered
81 cents for it, but must have 30 cents
for it in order to make anything on
the deal.
City Clerk Cowan has been almost
overwhelmed with letters during the
past two weeks from persons desiring
exact information about our gas sup
ply, and about our town and county
generally. These letters come gener.
ally from manufacturers in the east
who are evidently on the lookout for
a favorable western opening for the
Investment OF capital. Mr.. Cowan
answers all the letters carefully and
fully, and as result of the cores
pondence the prospect of the estab-
lishment of several new enterprises
here seems very promising indeed
lola Register.
A correspondent to the Topeka Car.
ital from Delphos, Ottawa county:
Although this section has not had
any rainfall for some time, wheat is
green and never looked better at this
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