People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-02-02
KANSAS MATTERS.
Items of Interest Condensed for Hurried
Readers.

factory at Girard.
Linn county has expended $4,000
for new bridges during the past three
years.
The Logan township, Barton county,
creamery is making $500 worth of but
ter week.
A Girard firm received an order on
Friday for sixty carloads of hay to 60
to F.ance.
1t is rumored that the Missouri Pa
cifc railroad shops at Atchison will
be rel.Iilt.
A Girard, Crawford county, brick
yard made and sold 100000 bricks
during 1898.
Wabaunsee county pays all warrants
on presentation and has done so for
some years.
The Garden City roller mills are run
ming twelve hours a day in order to
heeP up WITH Ine uemanus
A fine addition to the Wabaunsee
county court house at Alma. has just
been completed at cost OF $1,000.
The Morganville, Clay county, roller
mill was so rushed with work that it
ran 564 actual working hours during
Dec .mber.
The First National Bank of Arkan-
sas City, which failed during the late
financial furry, will resume business
February l.
Since May 1, 1898, 497 car loads of
hay, grain, and stock have been
shipped from the station of Mayetta,
Jackson county.
An intimate friend of Attorney Gen.
eral Olney in Boston says the rumored
resignation of Mr.. 0lney will become
fact very soon.
Five TT. Riley soldiers have been
granted a months furlough to enable
them to go to Leavenworth and take
the Kelley cure.
The value of the products of Kansas
City, Kan. factories increased 564.4
per cent during the two years between
1888 and 1890.
Ex-State Superintendent George w.
Winnans, now of Oklahoma, will con-
duct the Wyandotte County Normal
institute next summer.
John R. Skinner and Thomas Mosier
were both seriously injured by run
away team near Cleveland, o. T., Fri
day. Skinner will die.
In some grades of the public schools
, at Leavenworth the old time readers
have been dispensed with and secular
papers substituted for them.
At an auction sale of notes and ac-
counts due defunct Abilene invest
ment company, on Monday, Sl45, 200
worth face value, brought $500.
A Delphos. Ottawa county, man has
invented an end-gate for farm wagons
shat is said to be better than any
thing of the kind now on the market.
The patrons of the Spring Valley,
Mcpherson county, skimming station
received the remarkably good price OF
81 a hundred for their milk last
month.
The Gypsum, Salina county, cream
cry has been equipped with some new
machinery and will soon resume oper-
atoms, to the great satisfaction of its
old patrons.
Work on the new Science Hall at the
Agricultural college at Manhattan is
progressing rapidly. Another month
of good weather will find the stone.
work completed.
The Department of Colorado fur.
nished twelve prisoners for the Leav
enworth military prison last Monday
This addition increases the total mum
Der of prisoners to SIS.
The register of deeds of Riley
county issues a statement showing
that the net decrease of mortgage in
debtedness on Riley county property
since 1890 amounts to 1912, 705.
August Fisher has been arrested a
Valley Falls and taken to Nemeh5
county, where he is charged will
stealing hogs. The authorities of Ne
meha county are on track Of othe
members of the gang of stock thieve!
that have been operating there TO
several months.
Some one with superheated imagi
nation has started the story that tn,
alligator in the East lake at Empori;
has broken all the ice and spoiled al
the good skating. If the author wer,
Brazilian war correspondent h,
t probably would have the Nicthero.
l icebound in the Amazon.
Abilene Reflector: Up in Thoma
| county 20, 900 rabbits have been killet
t in two months. The hunters hitcl
teams to each end of an eigbty-rot
) piece Of wire and drag il over tn
prairie soaring up the jacks and cot
ton tails, which are easily shot by tn
. squad of sharpshooters following tn
I, wire.
The Plebean, a new monthly maya
9 zine. has been launched upon the Sc
, where so many such ventures are RAP
idly appearing these days. 1t is pub
lished in Burlingame in the Office o
: the Chronicle, and the first numbe
: contains articles from the pens of Con
:, gressmen Curtis, Laura NJ. Johns an
e A. w. Lawrence.
i Harry w. Davis, son of ]. II. Davi
a OF Emporia, well known throughou
S the state. has been missing for som
D time and the state department a
t Washington has been asked for assi'
r lance in finding him. The last lette
q received from the young man wa
! mailed at Capetown, and the consul a
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