People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-08-31

there all the week.
A Wichita firm shipped more than
200 barrels of apples last week and
have orders for five cars to 20 this
week.
? The chinch-bug infection station at
Abilene has shut up shop and Superin::
tendent Hickey is out of a 500 a
month snap.
The Emporia canning factory is do.
ing a rushing business. 1t put up
1000 cans of tomatoes last Saturday,
and has put up $4,000 cans of apples.
Two eounterfeiters who have put
a good deal of green money into cir.
culation in and around Wichita were
arrested Friday near Maysville. Their
tools, moulds and large quantity Of
counterfeit were also found.
Mr.. Rems5urg raised $50 worth of
blue grass seed from seven and one
half acres of ground. Counting the
grazing in the spring and the value of
the straw, the crop was worth to him
considerably over SlOO.-Iola Register.
For seventeen years." we heard a
farmers wife say Thursday: Il have
worried because part of the crop is
short, but notice that we have never
known want, and that each year
brings MS in better circumstances than
the year before ii.
Garrison Bros. Have just finished
cutting @,7OO acres of prairie hay at
Hepler, Crawford county, and expect
To have over two hundred cars for
shipment They arc building an ad
ditlOn of 4Ox1OO feet to their already
large barn at Hepler and employ about
fifty men.
\ trio of tramps tried to revenge
themselves on farmer who had driv-
en- them out of his vineyard near New
ton by setting fire to stubble field
with the evident intention of burning
lot OF stacked wheat. The fire was
discovered in season and extinguished
before it had done any damage and
the tramps were landed in the Gala
boOse.
The Miss Mary Martin who recent.
ly entered st. Mary's to become a nun
IS not the daughter of Senator John
Martin but Judge W. W. Martin, rep
resentative of the state OF Kansas in
its claims against the government and
now resident in Washington. The
confusion arose from the fact that
Judge Martin was state senator at
one time.
The long drOutb has been broken at
Garnett by soaking rain which will
greatly help the latest corn, make fine
fall pastures and puts the ground in
excellent condition for fall wheat
Anderson county will have an album
dance of corn and large surplus to
sell and plenty of roughness TO feed
all the stock through the winter. 1t
is safe to say that the entire crop of
1894 in this county is worth more
money than any crop for the past five
years.
News of sad accident comes from
HUmewood, ten miles southwest of
here. On Monday night John Morgan
was awakened by a noise near his
window. lie seized his gun and look
ed olt the window. Seeing what he
supposed to be neighbours dog, he
fired. On going to the yard he was
Mortified to find that he had shot his
lO-year-old son. 1t is supposed that
the child was walking in his sleep.
1t is probable that the injuries will
prOve fatal.
Newt Guyman Shot and probably
fatally wounded Elmer Carey, his
brOther-ln- law, one mile north of Os.
wego, at seven o'clock Wednesday
night with a shotgun. The difficulty
arose over razor. Stories are
conflicting. some claiming Carey was
advancing upon Guyman with the
razor, while others claim he was not.
Guyman has been partially insane for
four or five years and was once sent
to the asylum. No arrests have yet
been made, but Sheriff Bennett and
posse are IN pursuit. .Ess
Much interest is being felt by set
tiers in the Commanche country over
the reported action of the Kiowa and
Commanche Indians going on the war
path. There seems to be i'll feeling
among them and the cattlemen, the
former claiming that the latter owe
them about 100000 for the lease of
their land for grazing purposes, while
the cattlemen refuse to make settle
ment for same. 1t is thought the
next step will be for the Indians to
pounce upon the men in charge of the
cattle and massacre may result
Baker university is to have u foot
ball team this year after all. The
sport stirred up so much trouble last
year that the board passed resolutions
against it. A few who were much in
tercsted and who had determined to
go to other schools if foot ball were
barred at Baker have looked into the
matter and found that tine action OF
the board was only advisory. Advis.