People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-09-28
KANSAS STATE MATTERS.
WHAT THE JAYHAWKERS ARE
DOING TO-DAY.
Condensed News from All Parts Of
the Great Sunflower State-A GEN.
eral Summary of Kansas New.

eral Summary of Kansas New.
Howard will have a new indepen-
dent paper about Oct !.
The Arkansas river IS up-some-
thing very unusual for this time Of
year.
The Newton Grand Army Post has
erected fine flag pole in front Of its
hall.
Talbot, the man that killed Mike
Meagher IN Caldwell thirteen years
ago IS in custody.
The Douglass county C. A. R. reun-
ion will be held in Lawrence the 18th
of next month.
Abilene schools opened Monday
with 9O7 pupils enrolled-the largest
in the city's history.
The editor of the Frankfort Bee has
crao apple tree IN his front yard that
is full of bloom.
A Lawrence woman has just insti-
tuted her fourth divorce suit against
the same husband.
The Alma creamery has been COM
PEELED by the lack of cream TO close
down for the season.
Four hundred people went on the
excursion from Wichita to the Neode-
sha Oil fields Tuesday.
The tobacco harvest is on in the vi
cinity of Lane, Franklin county. Con-
siderable quantities are raised in that
locality.
The Norwich, Kingman county, Mill
ing company is shipping coarsely
ground wheat to Iowa for feeding
purposes.
Twenty hands are employed bottle
ing the Waconda Springs water, near
Cawker City. Ten thousand bottles
are shipped each week.
The Phillips county bank of Phil
lipsburg, has bought a car load of
seed wheat and will lett out to farm
ers who have nothing for seed on easy
terms.
Lair Dean is officiating as editor of
the Smith County Pioneer while W.
H. Nelson is in Waukomis, O. T..
Strengthening out the Beacon bank
tangle.
A man in Beloit is feeding 900 head
OF hogs on ground wheat made into a
thick mush and Am. White near YES
per, in Lincoln county, is feeding 200
head of cattle with wheat.
The Lawrence canning factory is
putting up tomatoes by the car load
and would do a still larger business
If enough women could be employed
to do the work.
The Princeton, Franklin county
band played for the ottawa Fourth OF
July celebration but was not paid ac.
cording to agreement. Now suit has
been brought to collect the stipulated
price and the suit is on trial at Otta,
wa.
About fifty Swedes from Mcpherson
and Saline counties have bought land
in southeastern Texas, and will re.
move to their new homes next month.
About twelve ear loads of goods will
be shipped on the 9th and about ten
on the 2jth, and there will be about
an average of four passengers to each
ear load.
The Medicine Lodge sugar works
have made more than 100000 poun dis
o. sugar already this season. The
cane coming in now is vastly better
in quality than it was two or three
weeks ago. The average sucrose con
tent is nearly 10 per cent. Sixty-fvt
men are employed in the works.
Two farmers named Frank Will.
and Thomns Kirkham engaged in {
fight at a dance near Bean Lake
Atchlson county, with results tha'
may be fatal. Willis cut KTrkham il
the arm and side and made q gasf
from the temple to the mouth. Kirk
ham got rock and beat Willis owe
the head until it took the doctors owe
an hour to bring him back to hi
| senses.
j. L. Heath, the old time stock feed
err of Peabody, says that his expert
iment of feeding wheat to cat
tie has been very successful, as he haC
put on ninety pounds Of flesh to tn,
steer in the past thirty days-weighet
in and weighed out" Mr.. Heath feed
crushed wheat dry mixed with bran
but no corn. 1t is evident that Mr.
Heath has not gone back on corn alto
gether, however, for he has Just pur
chased 10000 bushels Of that grain a
so cents bushel.
People who live in the vicinity O
Jamestown need have no care for dr.
weather-they can all plant alfalf
and be happy. James Burton was il
the city the other day and said he ha
raised $40 worth of seed, that tn
straw from the seed has more thaI
paid all the ex[ enses of the crop an
that at present the alfalfa on the sey
en- acres is very large and promise
another large crop of seed and ha
]. F. Fitzgerald, he said, has 10 acre
in alfalfa and has harvested S2.OC