People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-03-09
KANSAS MATTERS.
Condensed News from All Parts of
the Great Sunfiower Stato-A Gem
eral Summary of Kansas New.

Dickinson county horses are being
shipped to Chicago.
Spring wheat sowing is uneer way
in Decatur county. One man has put
IN seventy-fve acres already.
An epidemic of measles has caused
The. closing of the Lebanon, Smith
county, schools for two weeks,
Ths Ottawa Ladies Columbian club
ceased to exist Saturday. having been
merged with the Columbian Literary
society.
OsoNatom young men organized
an athletic club recently, and immed-
lately two accident insurance compa-
MES opened agencies there.
A government detective Is at Osa-
watomie looking into the manufac-
ture Of the counterfeit coin that is
circulating freely in that vicinity.
1t is reported that the Rocks county
normal institute will be held in Plain
Vile this year instead of at Stockton
as heretofore.
Not a single Labette county man
according to the Parsons Sun, has as
yet announced himself as candidate
for state or congressional office.
A rliterary society has been organ
lied at Atwood, RawliuS county, hav-
ing for one of its objects the estab-
lishment and maintenance of free
reading room.
The Associated charities of Law
renee has another scheme on foot for
raising funds. This time il is the pro.
duction by amateur talent of the ora
tOrio judith"
Prisoners in the Leavenworth
county Jail have been scheming for
some time to make their escape, but
discovery of their plans a few days
ago has checkmated the project.
Two men held up and robbed the
postotfice of Avilla, Comanchescounty
the other day, securing over $500. A
reward of SIS has been offered by the
sheriff for the capture of the robbers.
Wichita seems to be determined to
have big auditorium. The work of
soliciting subscriptions is being
pushed and the prospects for ultimate
success grow more hattering day by
day.
The idea of municipal =etrench-
ment has struck Wichita. Several
offices have been abolished altogether
and the salaries attached to others
materially reduced in the interest of
economy.
Oswego has two ladies' clubs which
for unique names cannot be outdone.
They are the 20. Q. C."(Queer, Quaint
Creatures) and 81. j." Jumping
Jacks.) Other towns are requested to
Guido this.-Times-Statesman.
7. F. Dunaway, for eight years di-
vision superintendent of the Missouri
Pacific at Osawatomie, has resigned
and will go to Denver to take the gen.
eral SUPPLEMENTARY of the Union Pa
elfc, Denver & Gulf railway.
An executive meeting OF Santa Fe
conductors was held at Argentine
Sunday. The object of the meeting is
not known, but it is supposed to have
been for the purpose of arranging for
state organization of the conductors
along the system.
Boone Sans of Winona, Russell
county, has been arrested on a charge
of assault with intent to kill. 1t
seems that he became filed with
whisky and also with the i, e, that he
would like to carve Ben Simpson.
Simpson wasn't hurt much.
w. Is. Harmer was arrested at Har-
per the other day charged with vio-
lating the prohibitory Law and in de-
fault of bail was taken to Jail at An
thony. He promises to make some
startling disclosures concerning GER
tain city officials when his trial is
called.
Bartholomew Barth, who lives at
2,OO2 North Fifth.street, Kansas CITY.
Kan, was fatally injured Sunday
morning by falling from an elevated
railroad train. He died at : o'clock
Sunday night at the city hospital. Mr..
Barth boarded the car and as it start
ed discovered that it was bound for
Chelsea park. He wanted to take an
Edgerton place car. He rushed out on
the platform and pushed aside the con-
ductor, who was closing the iron gate
at the STEPS. The ear had passed the
platform and he fell to the street
twenty feet below.
The charee of plagiarism coming
this year against the winning Kansas
orator calls 10 the mind of the oldest
inhabitant the time when Sam Wood.
then publishing paper in Topeka,
made the same charge against John
Speer of Lawrence. Wood said that
he could produce Speer's article word
! for word from one eminent writer and
a large part of it from another.
Woods party carried the election ard
in the resulting libel suit he produced
Webster's dictionary and the Bible
Lawrence Gazettee.
The report of Fish Commissioner J.
W. Wampler, has been issued from the
state printing house. The report saws
there is growing interest in piscicul-
ture in the state and that large mum.
Der of private ponds are beng con-
structed. The commissioner believes
the carp TO be the fish for Kansas. say
ing that itcan be grown as cheaply as
chicken. He thinks every farmer
ought to produce all the fish his fami
" can consume. The limited Sta+as