People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-03-02
KANSAS MATTERS.
Condensed News from All Parts of
the Great Sunfiower Statc-A Gem
eral Summary of Kansas New.
Ottawa has Conversation club.

Inc Mankato Monitor SAYS that 90 |
per cent of the peach buds in Jewell /
county have been killed.
Oskaloosa has hopes of being con-
nected with Leavenworth BY telephone /
in the not distant future.
Ten country schools in Marshall !
county have made a start toward Sc
curing libraries since last September. |
The Hazard Gun club of Ottawa
went out for a hunt the othe, day.
Two hundred rabbits were slaught-
cred.
The water works company OF Law
renee has secured a judgement against
the city for $4,000, for back hydrant
rental.
\, ?. c. L. society was organized
at the |. b. church at Usage CITY last
week with a membership of sixty
shree.
William E. Connolly of Kansas City,
kan.' has secured patent for self
correcting system of abstracting land
titles.
Professor Bidez of Emporia, has ac-
eepted the position of musical director
at Campbell university at Holton, and
will enter upon his duties at once.
Kansas City, Kan, will surely have
a $1,000 waite works suit on its
hands soon. The companys bill
amounts to that figure and it cannot
be collected
{. E. Glen, the man who EN- ezzled
s964.64 while acting as Rock Island
agent at Norton, has pleaded guilty
and been sentenced to two years in
the penitentiary.
Simon Watson. accused of criminal
ly assaulting 9-year old girl near
Norcatur, Decatur county, has been
found guilty and sentenced to eigh-
teen years in the penitentiAry.
The Emporia postoflice has la,OOC 3
cent Columbian stamps, and 6O,OOJ l.
cent stamps of the large size. These
must be sold before the government
will furnish the ORDINARY stamps,
William Nevill. a section foreman
on the Missouri Pacific at COTS, Ne
maha county, fell from the top of the
water tank one day last week and
was so seriously injured that he died
the same day.
The matter of establishing county
high school is receiving a considerable
amount of attention in Republic
county. The probabilities are, how
ever, that the plans will not material
ize for several months,
A Weir City man named Dennis an.
nounces himself as a candidate for
congress. He insists that there is
nothing in name and that his chan
ces are as good as though he were
named Smith or Jones or Eli.
A petition 10 being circulated
among the business men of Kansas
City, Kan, asking for signatures for a
pardon for Fred Sorter, who went to
the penitentiary In January for ten
years for shooting Enoch Link On May
30, 1890.
Congressman Broderick is quoted in
an interview as saying that he will do
all in mis- power to have government
work commenced on the Missouri river
at AtchisOn to prevent fur;hoy dam
age by the washing away of the
banks,
Mrs. N. r. Wickens of Sabetha, for.
merly at the head of the w. l.. C. OF
Kansas, and last year president of the
national organization of that order.
has been made superintendent of the
reform school for girls at Chicago at a
good salary.
An old colOred woman applied at
the free restaurant Saturday after
noon and was given basket of pro-
visions. Later il the day she sent
several of her children to tina same
place and secured another basket of
eatables. Saturday night she gave a
supper at her house, charging each
person Is cents, thus making several
dollars by the Standardization
Champion.
Superintendent Gaines, of IT, de-
partment of public instruction, has
made the following rulings: The ex.
animation manuscripts on file in the
county superintendent Office are the
property of the county and under pro-
lection Of the county superintendent.
A county superintendent has no right
to detach quarter section from n
school district in his county and at.
tach the same to a school district in
an adjoining county. Such action
would involve the disorganization of
school district and the creation of a
joint district: The district board has
no right to employ a teacher not le-
gally qualified, that is, one who does
not hold legal certificate. However.
If teacher not holding q certificate is
employed by the district board. such
teacher can collect from the district
whatever his services are reasonably
worth, without regard to what sail
may have been stipulated in the con-
tract. The district employing teach
er not legally qualified can not have
the time in which school was taught
by such person counted as a part of
the three months necessary to entitle
it to the state school fund. Under the
circumstances which You recite, will
say that tie matter has never been
settled by the courts of this state
There is no question in my mind but
that the district board is guilty of
openly and defantly violating the
law. l am also of the opinion that, if
q suit were brought, the court would
remove the board for will.ully violat-
ing the law.