People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-05-11
KANSAS STATE MATTERS.
WHAT THE JAYHAWKERS ARE
DOING TO-DAY.
Condensed News froIn All Parts OF
the Great sunhower State-A Gem
eral Summary OF Kansas New.

Fort Scott has $4,000 in the city
treasury.
0berlin is to have a new postofice
building.
The circus license in FL Dorado is
$50 per day.
The Santa Fe employees are now re-
ceiving their March pay.
Osborne and Alton are talking of
connecting those two towns by tele-
phone.
While wheat is constantly gong
down in Chicago, it is getting higher
in Kansas.
A groom of IS and bride of 81 were
star performers at an Esbop, Jewell
county. wedding last week.
Rainmakers are at work in Wichita.
They claim the credit for producing
the slight shower that fell Sunday
night.
An Eldorado grocery store is decor
ated by an orange tree, and when il
blooms there will be a wedding in
town to save the orange blossoms.
There will be commencement exer-
cises of the public schools of Lyon
county - Emporia May l6. The
graduating class is large one.
An Ell Dorado firm ships a car load
Of eggs each week to New York.
About 81 900 is distributed among the
farmers in Payment for these eggs.
Miss Elite Tye, the Parsons school
teacher who disappeared Thursday
night, was found in an orchard Satur-
lay suffering from the effects of a
lose of rat poison.
The total amount of farm products
shipped during 1898 from Kansas City,
Atchison, Leavenworth and st. Jo-
'eph, nearly all of which was raised
IN Kansas, was l64, 794 car loads.
There is an old soldier at the Leav-
enworth Soldiers Home who travels
every summer as a clown in Lemen
Bros. circus, returning to the home at
the end of the season each fall.
A Linn county man was appointed
administrator Of Bourbon county es-
tate in 1869, and has not yet made a
final accounting. A suit praying that
the matter be closed up has just been
filed.
The receipts of cattle at the Kansas
City, Kan, stock yards for April were
llO,55S, an increase of 7,s62 over the
same month last year; hogs, PIG, 5s4,
an increase OF 3O,2O4, and sheep, ca.
1885, an increase of 9l9.
The Sterling salt works have re-
sumed operations after an idleness of
two months. They will in all proba
bility be run night aud day for some
time to come. Employment is thus
given to twenty-five men.
The editor of the Norton Champion
thinks he has discovered a method OF
"squaring the circle" and publishes a
half column demonstration. His
method is simple, and a hasty exami-
nation fails to locate an error in it.
There were 1871 applicants for coun-
ty diplomas testifying to their gradu-
alton from the common schools of
Bourbon county this spring. Sixty.
three of the number passed the re-
quisite examination and will be grad
uated this week.
Johnson Ek'off Of Mcpherson re-
Gently obtained a verdict against Ne.s
Rhundberg of the same place for ST.
800. The judge thought the damages
found were excessive and rendered
judgement for 81. The plaintiff &C.
cepted the judgement.
Eureka has had an ordinance since
March II prohibiting the sale of cigar.
cites within the corporate limits. On
Monday Henry Moore, agent of the
Southern News Co., sold cigarettes on
the train while it was standing at the
station and was promptly arrested,
Moore says he knew nothing of the
ordinance and says he will fight the
case against him.' nsn
The annual wall that the fruit is all
killed having about exhausted itself.
the trees and shrubs and vines in this
part OF the western hemisphere have
brrdened themselves with bloom pre-
paratory to yielding an average crop.
There won't be many peaches, it is
true, but there will be an abundance
of all other kinds of fruit.-Minneap-
oils Messenger.
The season is said by experienced
farmers to be at least a month ad l.
vanced over last year. Wheat, said
farmer to-day, lis as large and
thrifty as it was May 6, a year ago,
and with the glorious rains the indi.
cations are for the best crop ever seen
in central Kansas in a decade. As for
corn, any amount of it is being plant.
ed. The ground is in splendid condi-
ton and every available acre is being
put into that crop."-Abilene ReAec-
tor.
1t is wonderful the change that has
taken place in the small grain within
the past two weeks. A number of the
fields Of volunteer wheat in this Sec
! ton of the country have been and are
now being put into corn; but the vol
unteer crop was never depended upon
for very much, so the condition of this
/ portion Of the crop has but a small
effect upon the whole. The recent ex-
eellent rains have placed the crop in a
healthy, hearty. growing condition
and all that is needed now is resona-
bly, favorable season the balance of
the time.-Smith Comfy Journal.
A 7-year-old boy was badly mangled
| by hogs a few miles north of Norton