People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-04-13
More than LOO pupils are enrolled
in the public schools of Enporia.

last week S freeze.
The Parsons police ran in nineteen
tramps IN bunch the other night
-Four were fined and tie rest run out
of town.
A l0-year-oli boy at Fort Scott stole
s?4 from his grandmother and skipped
out. Extended search so far has
failed to locate him.
A prairie fire in Mikesell township.
Rawlins county, last week DESTROYED
many acres of valuable growing tim
Der belonging to Hon. o. l.. Palmer.
The teachers of Atchison applied for
holiday Friday in order that they
might attend the big meeting at Law
renee, but the application was denied.
The sixteen teachers in the Beloit
schools have accepted challenge for
a spelling contest with an equal num-
Der of business meE, next Friday
night.
A. II. Griess. who knows thing or
two about fruit, says that plums and
cherries and apples in the vicinity of
Lawrence suffered almost no damage
by the Easter freeze.
A mad dog made things lively in tn
country south of Parsons on Sunday.
Numbers of dogs, hogs, and some cat
tie were bitten before the rabiG
canine could be killed.
The management OF the Fort Scott
Monitor has been changed again. A.
1. Lea drops out as business manager
and w. {. Lansdon assumes entire ed
itorial and business control.
Rev. W. ]. Seals Of Hamilton county
is in Emporia soliciting aid for the
people of his County who raised very
little last year and some of whom are
represented to be in dire need.
The proposition to vote 100000
worth of of bonds for the building OF
new school house, which was voted
on in Kansas City, Kan, Tuesday, WIS
carried by trife more than 1000 ma
jority.
A test case has been inaugurated
down in Linn county against the Kin
caids to see if they can be made liable
in any way in connection with the re.
cent failure of their bank. Zalmon
Kincaid has been arrested charged
with receiving money after the bank
was in a failing condition. He was
released on a $500 bond.
G. P. Scranton, who was held at
Tribune, Greeley county, for a week
on suspicion of being the man who
ran away from Horace in April, 1888,
with $1,000 belonging to the Pacific
Express company, has been discharged
after preliminary hearing. His
identity with the abSconder was not
clearly established.
The work OF cleaning the irrigatipg
bitches preparatory to furnishing N
abundance of water to consumers i In
progress by the various companies op-
Grating in this county, and an effort
will be made to give all who contract
a sufficient amount of water to insure
a good crop. Many of our farmers are
gong to stick to ditch lrrigating
while others will use private plants
Garden City Sentinel.
The jury in the Little case at Ola
the, Kan, was called by Jurris Satur
day afternoon, being unable to agree
The jury stood on the grst three bal
lots, five for acquittal and seven for
conviction. Afterwards they stood
four to eight for conviction, but those
| for conviction were willing to compro.
mise ON the lowest degree of man.
slaughter.
One of the hardest fought round
bouts ever witnessed by Harvard uni.
verSity men was put up at the Spar
! ring Club rooms on Brattle street Sat
urday evening. 1t came near being a
Sight TO the finish in which Z. f.
Champeny, '93, was declared the win
ner, over W. ID. Short, '94. The con.
testants weighed in at i45 pound, and
the winner is champion of Harvard
for the current college year.
A. Van Ripper, Reno county farm.
er has just marketed thirty-three sew.
en-months-old pigs, which averaged
two hundred and seventy-four pounds.
TO which he had fed two hundred and
eighty-two bushels of corn and
siXty-eight bushels Of wheat. He gave
two dry and one slop rations a day
grinding his grain in his own mill.
He has figured out that he has realized
seventy cents a bushel on his corn and
a dollar on his wheat.
The proprietor of the Atchison coal
mine offered TO supply the Atchisor
schools with 400 tons of coal at SO per
ton, but the board thought that in
consideration of the home market
that it had, to offer, 81. IS was enough.
The deal was not made.
The grocery men of Paols purchased
OF the farmers and poultry raisers OF
Miami county last Saturday over l6G
cases of eggs. Each one contains &c
dozen. making total of nearly 5000
dozen, which at cents a dozen
! brought about $500, II is quite evil
dent there are great many hens in
Miami county and they are veryrin.
dustrious, also quite source OF profit.
Miami County Republican.
There are fourteen creameries in
Dickinson county. They paw $3.50, 900
each year to the farmers for their
milk. Five OF these have headquar-
tiers in Abilene and 1900 COWS are re-
quired TO furnish the milk for them.
The creamery in the city cost 50, 90,
including machinery. Cows furnish
ing the milk will average s35 to $40 a
year apiece to their owners, not in
Guiding the calves. This, to my no.
ton, beats wooden mills, and Shaw
paa aOun4,, ic met n ,val nl.-s.I 4.