People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-01-26
LONG Bros
by JOHN LONG. "

! 1t cost Sumner county S9,237,92 to
run its poor farm last year.
A meeting of stockmen will be held
at Emporia on the 25th for the pur.
pose of devising ways and means to
prevent the regular annual importa.
ton of fever infected cattle from
Texas.
The Burlington, Coffey County, city
library is well patronized. The re-
port of the librarian shows that there
were 14,120 visitors during the past
year, and that 1900 books were
loaned.
Orders have been received a. the
Central branch railroad shops at Atch.
ison to lay off the forces evSry Satur-
day and orders reducing the working
days to eight hours each are also ex-
pected.
The Wellington Mail says that al
falfa culture is attracting great deal
of interest in that vicinity and the
probabilities are that large acreage
will be sOwn in Sumner county in the
spring.
Though four warrants are out for
A." 'rr"~t of Hadley. of Denver city
hall bo0dle care fame, he has not yet
O,en arrested, District Attorney Steele
'S sure that he has eft the city, or is
ia hiding,
People hardly ever get too old in
Kansas to set up housekeeping. This
is illustrated in the recent marriage
Of Mr.. Alva Kl>son, aged "A, and Mrs.
Nor is, aged 40, which occurred in
Howard.
The case of William H. Hildreth, ju.
nior member of the firm of Abe Stein
& Co.. s'w York, charged with grand
larceny, which was set down for pre-.
hminary hearing Tuesday was indef.
nitely adjourned.
Paul Lobe, who killed his wife at
Shaft No. 3, in Cherokee county last
week, has been bound over to the dis
trict court. His bond was fixed at
$1,000, but he could not find signers
and so went to Jail
The postmaster at Scootsville,
Mitchell county, found himself $500
behind in his accounts when he was
checked up by a postoffice inspector
last week. His bondsmen put up to
cover the deficiency.
Charles Peiffer, an electric light
trimmer in the employ of the st. Louis
Electric Light company, was killed at
s o'clock Tuesday morning while trim.
ming one of the lamps used to light
up the Union depot yards.
W. T. Goodnough, formerly Of To
peka, but now foreman of the Soldiers
home printing Office at Leavenworth
accidentally broke his ankle one day
this week. Mr.. Goodnough was quar-
tsrly serge ant of the Sixth o. V. J.
during the war.
The Coffey County Fair association
has discovered that the fair held las
fall at Burlington cost 5000 over anC
above the receipts from all sources
This has not discouraged the stock
holders, however, and they will hole
another fair next fall.
Albert Bigelow Paine is not letting
up in his efforts looking to a reform il
the method of conducting the Bourbon
county poor farm. Just now he is be
sieging the county commissioners will
photographs, petitions and pitifu
pleading, which can scarcely fail t
insure capitulation.
! Alfred Etchen and Curtis Miller
: young Montgomery county reprobates
were each fined $40 and costs, amount
ing to $50 or $40 last Wednesday. fol
disturbing an Epworth League meet
ing near Coffeyville recently, Tit
trial was a long one, the case being
holly contested by the defense,
The railroad tax in Chase county
the collection of which has been en-
! joined, amounts to $1,000, nearly ont
sixth of the entire ta- levied. Tha
/ will TlIce the school dist-icti
, and townships through which
the railroad runs in straight
ened financial condition, unless a com
promise is effected.
Joe Byers, or as he is commonl,
known Broken Nosed joe" died yer,
; ( sudde.ly last Wednesday, a
Tomlinson's ranch. southwest of Elm
dale, of what was supposed TO be te
tanus, or lock-jaw, superinduced by ;
kick on the leg by mule, he having
previously been victim of blood pois
oning. Byers is not though hto be hi
: |, true name. lie gave the name Of
sister he said was living in Topeka
whose name the attendant had unfor
l tunately forgotten when he died.
Chase County Reveille.
The school attendance at yelling
: ton has decreased to such an exten
? that the board of education has dis
! pensed with three teachers.
A young lad, son of John Wilson
living some five miles east of Logan
was the victim of an unfortunate &C
e ci6ent last Thursday. In COMPANY
S with two others ne was hunting rab
S bits, and through the playfulness of
L younger brother with the party cary
ing the gun, the boz was shot at shor
range, full charge of shot enterin,
! his thigh. Medical aid was sum
J. moned as soon as possible, but suppur
! alton and gangreen set in so rapid,
that death ensued in few hours. TIL
deceased was about 10 years of age.