People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-09-14

Edward c. Finney, of Lyons county
has been appointed to a c.erkship il
the general land Office at Washington
A very provident Atchison thief
stole forty jars of canned fruit whch
Mrs. George Graves had just put away
in her cellar
Another flow of gas was struck in
Chautauqua county last Saturday
night. This is the third natural gas
discovery for that county.
A number of petty burglaries were
committed at Yates Center Wednesday
night. There is no clue as to who
committed the depredations.
The spiritualistic camp meeting for
the states of Kansas and Missouri has
just ended at Liberal, Mo-, after
pleasant two weeks session.
The scarcity of corn is causing the
farmers to dispose of their surplus
stock. The surplus Of hogs is being
rapidly thinned.-Holton Signal.
\ proposition to vote an issue of
$4,000 of city bonds to bore for coal
or gas was submitted at Wichita Tues
day and carried by a good majority.
A Mr.. lloyne, of Saline county, was
at the Kansas City, Kans., stock
yards last week looking for feeding
steers TO feed 1000 bushels of wheat
which ne has.
The first rain of any consequence to
visit in the neighborhood of Minneap-
oils since June fell Wednesday. 1t
will make late pasture and put ground
in good condition for fall blowing and
seeding.
During the storm Saturday az Medi-
cine Lodge. gentleman from Leaven-
worth, whc was formerly in the cat
tie business there with a man by the
name of Hoover, was struck by light
ming and instantly killed.
4 very deliberate attempt to fire the
planning and feed mi of u. Barnes,
located near the electric light plant in
lliawatha, was discovered Wednesday.
A lighted candle fixed in oiled waste
was placed in the building, but the
candle was put out by being confined
to closely.
Fred Rhodes, the yourg man who
shot and killed Richard McAvov at
Hartford last Wednesday, was given
preliminary trial before Judge Fetch
err Tuesday. After hearing a large
number Of witnesses the Judge order
ed the prisoners released, as he did
not consider the evidence sufficient to
bind him over to the district court.
Sunday at p. m. Edward Sawyer
ended his life at restaurant in
Mound city by firing a ball from an
old 3?-calibre revolver into his heart
Poor health, loneliness and financial
troubles are attributed to the causes.
lie was an aged man and one of the
victims Of the bank failure at that
place. \ son and daughter reside
there
On the Fourth of July two young
boys broke into the depot at Detroit,
and stole the agents watch. They
were soon captured, and nave been in
Jail since. Wednesday in the district
court they pleaded guilty and were
sentenced to five years IN the peniten-
tiary. They refuse TO give their
names, but claim to be from eastern
Kansas.
Harrington has grown weary of
municipal management of its water
works and electric light plant and has
leased it to j. S. Towner, of Des
Moines, Iowa. lie takes it for twenty.
five years, agreeing to furnish what
water the city wants for fire purposes
and ten arch lights upon the streets.
The contract gives Mr. Towner the
option to purchase the plant at the
end of twenty-five years, otherwise
turn it back to the city in as good con-
dition as it now is, the necessary wear
and tear excepted.
Geo. W. Watson, southwestern sup.
erlntendant of the Arkansas Valley
Land and Irrigation company reports
his company as largely in the wheat
business and that it has unbounded
faith in Western Kansas. 1t IS now
preparing ground to SOW from 1900
to $1,000 acres in wheat along the
Santa Fe from Barton county west
to the Colorado line 1t is also put.
ting in about 200 acres of alfalfa, His
company has an experimental farm of
600 acres. six miles north of 0fferle, in
Edwards county. He is going to put
in wind mill .and irrigation pumps.
Good results are expected.
/ In the district court at TT. Scott the
case Of the State VS. A. B. Kirkwood,
superintendent of the Wear Coal COM
pany of Pittsburg, Kansas, was argu-
ed by council before Judge J. B. West
in chambers. The case involves the
constitutionality of the anti-screen
coal legislation of year ago and is
the first case of the kind brought by
the state against mine owners for the
violation of the aEti-screen provisions
Of the statutes. Judge West reserved
his decision. Attorney Morris Cleggitt
of Pittsburg represented the coal COM
pany, and Captain Morris, county at.
! tOrnev of Ora yfOrd pountv assisted