People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-08-03

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A. c. Whitemanis again in charge
Of the La Crosse Clarion.
There will be Salvation army pic
mic in Kerr's park, Kansas City. Kan,
August 1927.
No. wheat is worth only 80 cents
at Parsons; less, according to the Sun,
than ever before.
The State Horticultural Society will
hold Its regular annual meeting at Fl.
Scott in December. -
Seven colOred boys were arrested.
at Atchison Thursday for stealing
wheat from box cars.
A 2-year-old colt trotted an eighth
in 15A seconds at Fort Scott Wednes-
day. THIS is 200 gait .s..A
Chris Beougher, Cove county man,
will put out between 500 and 1000
acres OF wheat next fall.
Street. fakirs cannot get license in
Mcpherson. The city dads think they
are too expensive luxury.
Eta Baker, a pretty Eldorado girl
of 81, is under arrest at Wichita
charged with incest with her brother.
E. C. Mossman, a druggist of Ray
mond, Rice County, committed sui
eide by taking morphine one day last
week.
August Jaedieke, jr. is only % years
old, but he has been cashier of the
State Bank of Hanover, Washington
county, for six years. jys
The Rock Island shops at Horton re-
sumed work Thursday morning. The
hours have been increased from forty
to fifty-four per week.
A hail storm in Cowley county, not
far from Arkansas City, damaged corn
seriously over a small area Tuesday.
Some stock was injured.
On July Z the commissioners of
Greedy county, allowed and ordered
drawn 81, 667 in warrants to pay the
several parties of that county for
scalps upon which was bounty.
Thirteen first grade teachers certi-
fcates were issued as the result of the
last examination in Pratt county.
Twenty-seven second grade certificates
were issued and thirty-fve third
grade. ... I'D.
Dickinson county is represented on
both sides of the strike. John NJ.
Egan president Of the board of rail-
way managers, is an old schoolmate
of Father j. F. Leary of Chapman
Abilene Reflector,
The Russian thistle is gaining a
Strong foothold in Rawlins county.
Near Atwood is an eighty-acre field
that is completely covered with the
pest. The farmers in the vicinity
are combining TO eradicate the weed
A Fruit Growers association has
been organised at Wichita for mutual
protection and advantage in market
ing fruit. 1t will be the aim to so dis
tribute shipments as to guard against
flooding any one market and running
prices down.
Colburn Brothers of the Queen Bee
mills bought about 1000 bushels Of
old wheat Monday at 40 cents per bu
shell. TlSs wheat came from near
Mcpherson and has been held since
last August for better price. Nc
Pherson Republican. aSs-~'
Several memphis" railroad employ
es were let out at Fort Scott this week
A. R. U. men say the cause was thai
the discharged employees sympathized
with the strikers; the railroad official,
say that the men were let out for di
rect violation OF rules. vi
No new men going into the emyloy
OF the Santa Fe at this point have
been compelled to sign contract,
which sttpulate that they must re
nounce all labor organizations. New
men are employed just as they always
were, without any restrictions in tina
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The most fortunate combination o
unfortunate circumstances ever heard
of exists at Atchison, where two resi-
dents have each lost a leg. One doe.
with out his right leg while the other
gets along without his left foot. Boil
wearing the same size shoes, they each
are QUILTED in footwear by the pur
chase OF one pair of shoes. .e.
+. The wild man of the woods" who
has been terrorizing the people in the
vicinity Of A.chison for Some time has
been captured by the sheriff The
sheriff says he roared like lion when
/ he found he was in the tolls. Charles
b. Wagner is the wild mans name
and he has many times forced money
from people by the use of loaded,
cooked revolver. He is undoubtedly
either a wild mad man or a man seek.
ing refuge from crime.
The fast passenger train No. on
the Santa Fe had a narrow escape
from being ditched Tuesday afternoon
two miles west Of Peabody The hot
weather had caused the track TO
spread or get out of line about three
feet, and it was only discovered Just
in time by the section men. The
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