People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-08-31
KANSAS STATE MATTERS.
WHAT THE JAYHAWKERS ARE
DOING TO-DAY.
Condensed News from All Parts OF
the Great sunfiower State-A Gem
eral Summary of kansas New.

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A good rain was had at Anthony
Saturday morning. Itputs the ground
in condition Tor blowing.
Kansas City, Kansas, killed 10000
more hogsin July 1894, than in the
corresponding month last year.
Prof. Hunter, of the Atchison couu.
ty high school at bingham, has lust
returned from trip to Europe.
The Salina Paper Manufacturing
company will start their mill in about
ten days The intention is to cook
straw for the first week and then they
will be able to turn out their paper in
large quantities.
The first good rain that has fallen
in central Dickinson county since June
p, fell last Thursday night, wetting
the ground well. There have been
two light showers before but they
done no good. This will help pastures.
Major Frank Barrows, who has for
many years been secretary of the
national military cemetry at Fl. Scott.
mas been transferred to Beaufort
South Carolina, where he will have
charge OF another national cemetrv.
Major BarrOws will be succeeded bv
Major e. ". Ford, of Beaufort.
A water famine is threatened in Of
tawa and heroic measures are being
resorted to by the water company.
Many wells throughout the city. as
well as cisterns, are dry and the reser-
voirs of the water works are lower
than ever before. A heavy force of
workman are digging canals to con-
meet the river with the reservoirs.
Incendairies Sunday morning set
fire to the large barn belonging to +.
H. Nanhasen, who lives in Willow
Springs township, about thirteen
miles southwest of Lawrence. Six
horses were burned to death and a
large amount of grain and a number
OF farming implements were DESTROY
ed. The loss will reach $4,000. No
insurance.
A young woman from the country
whose name could not be learned.
came IN to Wichita Sunday in great
misery. BY some means a sand burr
got into her throat and stuck fast
there. 1t causes her the most intense
pain and may cost her her life, as she
IS already Frustrated with coughing,
and every time she coughs the weed
sticks faster.
The Wichita Eagle is using much
space in trying to show that a Will
liam Matthewson of Wichita, rather
than William F. Cody, is the rightful
Buffalo Bill" 1t has stirred up
COdy's camp in New York in great
shape and two or three col
umns Of stuff on the side of the con-
trOversy or the other are published
every week.
II steam thresher breaks through
a bridge, no damage can be collected
from the county. The law demands
that three-lnch plank be laid across
for the wheels to move on to distrib.
ute the weight which Is seldom COM
piled with, There is also law to
compel them to shut off steam on the
approach of horses. which is also dis
regarded.-Atchison Globe.
The semi-annual meeting of the
Franklin County Farmers Institute
was held in Forest Park, Ottawa. last
Thursday. There was a good attend
ance of farmers and others. Address
es were made by Secretary F. D. Co.
burn, of the state board of agricul-
ture: eX-Secretary Martin Mohler. Rev.
j. W. Stewart, 5. ii. Cramer. J. II.
MILESTONE. Robert Atkinson and w.
II. Moherman.
Five deaths have occurred among
the Indians on the Kickapoo reserva-
ton during the last two weeks. The
Indians are much excited over these
deaths and the murdered man found
on their reservation lately. They
think the Great Father is angry with
them because they have allowed the
white-faced settler to settle on the re-
serve. They think that the Great
Spirit will now destroy them all.
Tie real estate Office of Frank Ap-
plegate at Beloit was entered by burg
lars on last Thursday night and over
$1,000 secured. The money belonged
to an eastern man who recently ar
rived and made arrangements to pur-
chase farm through the agency men,
toned. He had closed the deal and
was to make the payment the next
day, depositing the money IN Apple
gates safe until the time.
While Minnie Carter, little girl ia
Years old, was out gathering apples
from her fathers orchard near Wash
inton last Friday, an unknown man
came up behind her. threw a cape
over her head and ravished her. The
fiend succeeded in making his escape
after committing the dastardly out
rage, but the surrounding neighbor-
hood is being searched and if he is
found, treatment suitable to such out
RACES will be melted out to him.
The Kansas fair season opened this
week. Moran, Allen county, and
Riley Riley cOuntr will hold tba;r