People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-05-04
KANSAS MATTERS.
Condensed News from All Parts OF
the Great Sunflower Statc-A Gem
eral Summary of Kansas New.

DoellIH - ~ nave new poStOtnce
building.
An equal suffrage club has been or
ganized at Garden City.
1t cost SO a month to keep the poor
OF "reenleaf during January, Febru-
airy and March.
Cherokee. Crawford county. claims
population of /, 1873 against less than
900 year ago.
The Troy Oil company has had reg
lstercd nearly 200 leases on land IN. the
vicinity OF Fort Scott.
The Missouri river is subsiding at
Atchison but it is still cutting into the
bank at a serious rate.
There are about 200 bicyclists in
Leayenworth. only fifty of whom are
members Of the l.. A. W.
Ice formed in several counties in.
Southeastern Kansas Saturday night.
but no material damage was done.
There is no bicycle. club in. Law
renee. There have been several at
temptS TO- keep. such an organization
alive, but all have finally fzzled
The agents of the Troy Oil company
OF Pittsburg have been busily engaged
for ten days securing oil and gas
leases in the vicinity of Erie. Neosho
county
The promised prosecution of gam
6lers has begun at Fort Scott ChaS.
Lanham was arrested Friday charged
on four counts with gambling. He
was held in $500 bail
DR.. Allen Day, famous for his sue
ceSStul treatment of inebriates, and
who for the past twenty-five years has
been identified with the Washington
ian home at Boston, is dead.
The Rawllns County Democrat
wants to know why it is that the two
Atwood banks pay only one half of
one per cent on county deposits while
the Mcdonald bank has to pay three
and one half per cent.
The Fort Scott Oil company have
several men out over the country Sc
curing oil leases on farm lands. The
company will not only operate in Bour-
bon county. but will go into Allen and
Linn counties.
The Leader-COurier says that many
of the stones that fell in the hail
storm at Kingman Tuesday were as
big as goose eggs. Several plate glass
windows were broken and damage to
the amount of twelve or fourteen hun.
dred dollars was done.
An Osawatomie woman mas brought
suit against the city because barn
door blew down on her and seriously
injured her. Another woman. whose
baby fell out of high char and had
its head cracked. is also talking of su,
ing the city for $1,000.
Rev. Edith Hill. the noted Emporia
evangelist is drawing great crowds at
Plttsburg. Room after room has been
vacated in favor Of larger ones on ac.
count OF the increasing size other con.
gregation. till now she has the largest
in the city. There have been many
conversions.
April 18th the hardware store OF
Mont Won Buskirk, at Kincaid, was
entered by burglars and about S.;
worth of goods taken. The anti-horse
thief association set to work on
the case and as result the men
were caught at Fort Scott this
week with the stolen goods.
A dago whom the marshal of Dodge
City arrested the other day for va
grancy made a desperate attempt to
commit suicide while on the wav tC
the lookup. lie used a big Barlow
knife and slashed his throat viciously
but did not injure himself seriously.
The pupils of the Bremen school
have collection of thirty-three kinds
OF wood grown in Doniphan county.
The idea of learning a good deal about
your own county is good. More Atch.
ison pupils can bound Germany than
can bound .AtcEison cOunty.-Atchison
Globe.
The Interstate Fair circuit includ.
ing Eastern Kansas and Western Mis-.
souri, will hold its fairs and races al
the following places upon the dates
below mentioned: Bolton. Augus st u.
%; Olathe, August 1881: Garnett
September A.; Burlington, September
His, Ottawa. September 1921: Paola,
September 25.9S; La Cygne. Octobc;
l9-5.
A farmer from near COrbin brought
to Wellington yesterday the news OF
the camping of the Dalton gang by a
creek just north of the Oklahoma line
Monday night. The men were drink.
ing and boisterous and boastad OF
their identity to passers-by. "Oil
4uoShiSl lC IL Oc utdu man inside OF
a month, shouted one of the men to a
farmer who passed them. Macklev i.
the United States officer ir charge OF
the posse who unnecessarily raided
the home of the Daltons last week.
) At the Farmers institute held last
month resolution was adopted unan.
imously declaring it to be the sen.
timent of that meeting that the coun.
ty commissioners would be justified in
sending some one to Lawrence tc
earn how to handle Prof. Shows
chinch bug infection and to establish
distributing depot at the expense OF
the county. Already reports have
reached this Office that the chinch
bugs are appearing in great numbers
and 1t seems certain that they
will do great damage unless active
measures are taken to destroy them.
lola Register
Waterman Long of the Central