People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-05-11

The Santa Fe pays the City OF Cha.
mute sl,sOO year for water service.
Manhattan prisoners are credited
with only rs cents day on the rock
pile.
1t is stated that the ProSSer branch
OF the Central branch will be extend
ed to the Black Hills country.
An Industrial council has been es.
taolished at Kansas City, Kan, with
eight unions and 1000 members
The receiver of the Bank of Greens.
burg at Kiowa is disbursing dividend
OF Is per cent to the depositors.
The College of Emporia defeated
the State Normal at a game of base
ball on Saturday by score Of l2 to ..
In Washington county los pupils in
the common schools were examined
Tor graduation and ninety Of them
passed.
The Atchison physician who was
appointed by the city board of health
&c look after the smallpox cases gets
$40 day.
The amount of fines and costs coll
lected IN the Fort Scott police court
during April was $3.50 500 less
than usual.
An lola correspondent says that
half the farms near Moran. Elsmore
and Humboldt have been covered by
oil leases.
The Johnson County Fair associa.
ton has definitely decided to hold ITS
second annual fair at 0lathe, August
2s, 90, 30 ami 81.
Two incendiary blazes in Salina
within few days testify to the fact
that the ire-bugs who have been OPP
Grating there for a month have not
left the town.
There are 'razzers a-hin in de air.
at Salina because one of the BARRIERS
has broken the agreement signed last
summer to close at a certain hour
each evening.
DIR. Allen Day, famous for his sue
cessful treatment of inebriates, and
who for the past twenty-five years has
been identified with the Washington
ian home at Boston, is dead.
There is movement on foot in Kan
sas City, Kan, to close the joints, or
at least the worst of them. Several
establishments have already been
compelled to shut up shop and others
are on the list
Allen Afford, of Beatrice, Neb.,
aged 20, was arrested at Atchison
on telegram from his home charging
him with forgery. Afford was ac-
companied to Atchison by handsome
young woman who admitted she was
not his wife.
The committee on mines and mining
OF the Denver chamber of commerce.
has decided that it is unwise to ask
for the removal of the mint ut Carson
City to Denver as TO do so would an
Iagonize the. Nevada people and the
plant is too small any way. Congress
will be petitioned. however, to estab.
lish mint in Denver.
Secretary Carlisle has transmitted
to the house request for an appro.
priation of IS, 800 for better guarding
the seal islands against poachers and
for internal improvements to the
islands. The amount includes 81, 0OC
for fifty Winchester rifles and amuni.
ton, and $1,000 for nine telephones to
connect the guards at the various seal
rookeries.
o. S. Kirkland, a planter near
Ozark, Ala, and his son, Dennis, quar-
relied over plantation matters. The
son finally went to town but returned
during the night very drunk. He re-
newed the quarrel with his father,
finally drawing knife and slashing
him fatally. In the meantime the lat
ter had drawn pistol and succeeded
in discbarging bullet into the sons
breast, killing him instantly. .iH
The wheat crop which now looks
fine in this part of the country has
been put long way toward an abund-
ant crop by the rain of Monday and
Tuesday evenings. Farmers are once
more riding on the top wave of high
anticipation. Western Kansas, il
would seem, has become disguised
with some of its chronic habits. has
flung them off, at least for time, and
now seems inclined to come out in
Sunday ralment.-Wakeeny World.
More new ground is being broken
up in Smith county this season than
ever IN any one year before. 1t is but
a matter of a few years until farmers
will have to look elsewhere than the
common wild grass for feed for their
stock. Already the Importance of the
idea is forcing itself upon the farmers
and many are preparing to meet the
emergency by the use of alfalfa and
like crops. Hundreds OF acres Of al
falfa will be planted in Smith county
this season, and if successful the acre
age will increase from now on
Smith County Journal.
On Sunday afternoon Jesse, SON of
Oscar Meyers of Leavenworth. aged >
years, fell into the Missouri river and
drowned, right at the place where
Mrs. Mettman's body was found cut to
pieces several years ago. lie was in
company with his father fishing, who
leaned against tree and fell asleep.
When he awoke the little boy was
missing, but his hat on the end of
some logs tied to the shore gave un-
mistakable evidence that he had fall
en- into the. water where it was about
nine, feet deep. A little dog that had
been,with the Myers child was run
ming alOnp the shore makin0 a oeaa,