People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-11-29

eTul summary Oh hdusds NoWs
Beautiful weather for Thanksgiv-
ing.
Chapman Standard is to be- increas-
ed in size.
A two-foot vein of coal has been
discovered at Dodge City.
Major Cole, the noted evangelist be-
gan series Of meeting at Wichita
last week.
The state fish commissioner has
been planting carp and lass fry in the
streams of southwestern Kansas dur
ing the past week.
The Marion creamery is paying 95
cents hundred pounds for milk. This
is equivalent to about twenty-five cents
pound for butter.
II. o. Lyster, Of Sedan, Chautauqua
county, has purchased 300 3 and 4-year
old steers, which he will winter on
corn stalks and feed for the Kansas
City market in the spring.
Frederick Holzworth, one Of the
county's early settlers, and janitor OF
the court house at Abilene for years
died last week of pneumonia and was
buried with Odd Fellows honors.
The Farmers institute advertised al
Hays City for November % and "a was
Postponed two weeks, or until 6 and
on account of the irrigation conven.
ton at Hutchinson on the dates first
named.
W. A. Wilson, of Atwood, Rawlins
county, finished threshing a 5sO.bush
ell crop of alfalfa seed the other day.
The seed is worth $3.50 a bushel and
will probably sell for $500 before
spring.
Times are good in Wilson county
this fall. We do not remember a yeal
when there was so little complaint as
there is now-and we have been here
since the year one. -Neodesha Regis
ter.
Work on the Missouri, Kansas anC
Texas branch from Parsons to the
coal fields of Cherokee county will bC
begun in few days and it is said the
sixteen miles will be completed inside
of 100 days.
At Pittsburg the jury in the case o
the State VS.. Charles Lee, for the kill
ing of William Chapman, after being
out twenty-five hours failed to agree
eleven being for conviction and on,
for acquittal
0tte Greet, a prominent business
man of Pittsburg, and Miss Isabel,
Maxwell, daughter of County Treas
urer Maxwell, were married las
Thursday. Both parties are leading
society members
The Traveller says that a younl
man in Arkansas City shocked the ma
tives by appearing on the streets Sat
urday noon in the garb of Adam min
Us she dg leaf. He was stark mad a
we'll as stark naked.
The Hutchinson Commercial cluI
has ISIS ued invitations to an informa
reception at the club rooms after tn
irrigation convention Friday eveniu,
to meet President and Mrs. Cannon o
the Mormon church of Salt Lake City
Near Leavenworth, John Quinn,
saloon keeper while out rabbit hunt
ing was instantly killed. He crawlet
through barbed wire fence and il
attempting to pull his gun through
after him the weapon was discharged
a heavy load of shot penetrating hi
bowels.
Pearly Byrd, a cOlored bootblack o
Leavenworth, has fallen heir to an es
tate in the state of Tennessee. A
nearly as can be ascertained the littl
fortune comprises $500 in cash beside
some valuable real estate. Pearl,
said he came to Leavenworth f-on
the south with his mother twelv,
years ago, being 3 years old at tn
time. In 1885 his mother died.
An old resident of Parsons, Isaa
Wilmer, is under arrest, charged will
criminal assault on an s-year-old girl
The fine stud of standard bred horse
on the Toler farm at Wichita is to b,
permanently dispersed by public salt
next month.
The Stevens County Sentinel, Popu
list has joined the silent majority, tn,
office having been sold to c. NJ. Davis
editor OF the Hermes, Republican
This is strong Popu ist county, ant
the Sentinel has been doing the coun
ty printing for two years past. ant
stood good chance for continuing
but the p-oprietors concluded it wa
better to sell while they could.
As result of charivari the othe
night at Wellington John McCook il
dead and Claude Walton is seriously
if not fatally wounded. Richard
Webster was married in the that cit
last week and in the evening a Grove
of boys and young men went to hi
residence to charivari HIM and hi
bride, when Webster fred into tn,
crowd with a 32-calibre revolver Will
the above result. Webster is a mem
Der of the Salvation army and is half
witted. He was arrested.