People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-10-11
October was ushered in with "a cold

at Chetopa this week. 80
The Kansas Good Templars conven-
ed at Emporia this week.
The Huron Herald will issue fine
illustrated edition shortly.
"Carrie Chapman Gait" is the way
she registers at the hotels.
The wife of DR.. H. q. Miller died at
her home in Rossvllle on the Goth ult.
The gambling houses in Parsons
have been closed-it is said for good
Sixty ladies learned to swim at the
Leavenworth Natatorium during the
summer.
The Harrington schools have the
largest attendance in the history OF
the town, 372.
Wichita was visited by a cyclone
Monday evening and it done consider.
able damage.
John N. Reynolds, the noted Atchi-
sonian, is dying in the Osawatomie in
sane asylum.
Editor Swearingen has been bound
over to the district court, charged
with criminal libel.
Capt Ed. Hayes of Company B, Sec
ond Regiment, at Wellington, has
been promoted to Major
Mel L. Donnelly, a horsetrader of
Montgomery county, was murdered al
Hamburg, Ia, last week.
Miss Nellie Z. Whitehead is a pro-
nounced brunette who teaches elocu-
ton in Ottawa university.
Geary county has had a good rain,
which will put the ground in good
shape for fall wheat sowing.
Mr.. VIII Wadsworth, a Kansas boy,
made his debut on the professional
stage in Chicago, Monday evening.
A .man with four handles to his
name is writing articles on "Man's I'm
mortality" for the Atwood Citizen.
The First regiment, K. n. G., will
hold its annual encampment at Kerr's
park, Kansas City, Kan, this year.
Pickpockets were thick at the state
fair at Wichita last week. Five were
run in in a bunch Thursday afternoon.
The Kansas City Journal notes the
fact that Kansas has an Alpha, but no
Omega. However, we have a Wame-
go.
Dickinson eounty's high school at
Chapman has fallen off in attendance
somewhat this year, owing to hard
times.
Two youths of II and 20, respective.
ly, were sent to the peuitentiary this
week from Mitchell county for hog
stealing -
United States district court will be
convened in Leavenworth this week.
Judge c. e. Foster will probably pre-
side.
The rails for Atchison's new electric
line have arrived and it is expected
that cars will be running in few
weeks.
A Kansas City, Kansas, pawn shop
was entered by burglars Sunday and
jewelry on which 81, 500 was advanced
was taken.
DR.. Tracy, the Kentucky temper
ance evangelist" is having a round
up with Ottawa devotees of the flow.
ing bowl this week.
The Catholics in the vicinity of Den.
tonville, in Doniphan county, will
erect a $4,000 church shortly. The
contract has been let.
One hundred and thirty children
will take part in the production OF
Iolanthe under Miss Georgia Browns
direction at Lawrence this month.
2The Wichita News charges that S25C
of the money used at Hutchinson in the
reception of Mckinley was raised by
levying an assessment of SIS each on
ten jointists.
The treasurer Of Logan county is
IS. 900 short in his accounts. His prop
erty is all in the hands of his bonds.
men, and he promises to make the
shortage good. The county will not
lose anything.-Colby Tribune.
The collections of the internal rev.
enue office at Leavenworth for Septem.
Der were SCI, More than s., 900 o.
this amount was for playing caro-
stamps, and more than Sl4.O for cleo
margarine stamps.
The Coffeyville Mining and Gas com
pany will begin extensive operation!
in prospecting for oil and gas at once
The material for twelve new derrick:
arrived last week and will be erected
in the vicinity of Coffeyville.
The Solomon Sentinel says strang
er is working on the farmers in Dick
inson county new insurance swindle
He asks farmers if they are insured
and after finding out particulars in
forms them that the company has sus
pended and offers to aid them in ad
justing the policy, and give insuranc,
in exchange in reliable company
He then gets the party to sign The
transfer (which afterwards turns NJ
| up at some bank in the vicinity IL
the shape of note for value receiv