People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-07-06
KANSAS STATE MATTERS.
WHAT THE JAYHAWKeRS ARE
DOING TO-DAY.
Condensed News from All Parts OF
the Great Sunfiower State-A Gem
eral Summary of Kansas New.

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the task of rearing 700 chickens.
Chinch bug injection stations have
been established this week at Clay
Center and at Holton.
Newton is the latest candidate in
the race after the location of the pro-
posed Masonic home.
Blind Tom, the pianist, advertised
as the original Blind Tom, - is doing
western Kansas towns.
The Carleton company give the
.Leavenworth people a series of sum-
mer opera the last week.
Free Coinage, the noted Kansas pa
Ger. owned at Emporla, will leave for
the Illinois circuit this week.
The Wamego Turn Verein laid the
corner stone for fine new hall 44xlO0
1eet IN dimensions, the other day.
The travelling men of Concordia and
clay Center will play a match game of
pail at the latter place on tie Fourth.
Apetition is in circulation in Gar
nett asking that steps be taken to
nave the city made city of thesecond
class.
The members of Company H. Kansas
National Guard, of Lawrence are to
nave brand new tailor made uni
forms.
The equal sufragists propose hold
ing enmeetings in Dickinson county
next month, organizing a club at
each.
. An attempt will be made to hold
iair at Bismark Grove, Lawrence. next
tall. The dates suggested iare Sept.
94-99.
An Arkansas City man has been in
jail for a week for refusing to Tav or
work out SO road tax. he saws he
will never pay.
Seventeen johnson county young
people were in attendance at the State
Agricultural college at Manhattan
during the past year.
The smallpox scare at Atchison is
over, and the board of health has is
sued an order permitting the churches
and schools to open.
The Harrison International Tele-
phone company is flirting with the
Lawrence city council in the hope that
4 franchise may be secured for putting
N the automatic system in the histor.
&C city.
The proposition of the NJ. K. & T. to |
ocate general offices in Parsons for
bonus of $4,000 is meeting with APP
9roval among the business men. 1t is |
likely that the proposition will be ac-
'epted and the bonus raised.
Thirteen more oil and gas leases |
we're recorded at the fegisterss office
his morning, making in alIabout fifty !
,ecorded in the past two months. |
Those recorded cover land in Mount |
'leasant township.-Osweg News.
A. R. Wilcox. who was arrested at |
Arkansas City for completely in the |
The performance of an abortion on his !
wife, which cost the latters life. has
'een held for murder in the sum of |
10000.
The county uniformity CT text books |
question is the principal one that is
'exing the people of Reno county at |
resent. A vote on the matter will be
AIKEN at the school meetings July 96. !
lniformity seems likely to win the
lay, !
Charles II. Osborn, formerly of Coy
lille, who was prosecuted on the
harge of forgery in the Wilaon county
district court about three years ago,
'ut acquitted, was shot and killed at !
ioldthwaite, Mills county, Texas on
he 9th instant.
Lightning calculator who claims to
'e son of Gen. Lew Wallace is doing
outhern Kansas towns. lie saws his |
ather objected to the business he is
in, but thathe refused to quit
t, and for that reason he and the old |
nan are not on good terms.
Nearly every town along the main
Inc of the Santa Fe west of Topeka is |
entertaining squads of Coxeyites who
ire endeavoring to make their way to |
he Missouri Most of these pilgrims
ire from Los Angeles, but some of |
hem made the start from Denver.
One day this week county warrant |
or Sll3 and some cents appeared at |
he Barber county treasurer's Office at |
Medicine Lodge for payment. Itwas
ssued some eleven years ago to 7. |
Dwight Thatcher for stationery sup
olies and Endorsed mot paid for want |
If funds" by w. 7. Rouse. county !
treasurer. Mr.. Thatcher died this |
'pring and in looking over his old pa
'ers the piece of scrip was found.
For several years we have heard in
IN uncertain way of the damage to
,rops from the prevalence OF the Rus |
'ian thistle in South Dakota, but un.
Ill recently supposed this part of the
country to be free from it. 1t seems
% be here in force, however, being
as yet to land contiguous to
The railroad. Up in Nebraska they
Ire organizing in districts to fight its
Entertainments by school districts.
The Commercial Exchange of Leav-
enworth is endeavoring to secure the
location of beet sugar plant at that
point. 1t is said that the soil in the
vicinity of Leavenworth grows beets
that will average - per cent of sugar.
and that in the limestone lodges near
the city is plenty of mineral used in
refining the sugar, obviating the
trouble and expense of shipping the
mineral from Wisconsin and France.