People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-08-10

They are holding parlor suffrage
meetings every week in Leavenworth.
Forty-six young people were gradu.
ated from the common schools OF
Kingman county last week.
Missouri wheat is being marketed
in Leavenworth at the rate of about
5000 bushels day. 1t is worth &C
cents there.
And still the Kansas City market is
kept supplied with fish from the Kaw
river in Kansas taken by seines con.
trary to law.
There is an onion farm near Law
renee on which 100 gatherers are at
present employed They are paid %
cents bushel.
a Leavenworth dealer has a display
of poker chips in his window, and over
them the sign: "Chips that pass in
the night 50 cents"
An irrigation meeting will be held
at Oberlin next Saturday. 1t is ex-
pected that county irrigation asso-
citation will be formed.
As the result of the teachers exam.
nation at Ell Dorado, Butler county,
12l certificates were issued, and sew
enty-fve applicants failed to pass.
Miss Josephine Moon, an Emporia
teacher has been elected to the chair
of elocution and oratory in the La
bette county high school at Altamont.
Kingman county is more deeply in
debt by $4,000 than it was in 1891.
That was when the populists assum-
ed control of the county government
Chanute's big race meeting will be.
gin next Tuesday. The first days
program includes yearling trot, Q
2:4O trot and pacing race for 3.year.
olds.
The Gospel Union Bible school, which
has been in progress at Bismarck
Grove this week, has not been howl
ing success. The attendance has been
distressingiy light
A Kansas City, Kansas joint keeper
has been arrested charged on fifty
seperate counts with the illegal sale
of liquor, and has been held for trial
in the sum of $4,000.
John Watts, receiver of the Harper
National Bank, is paying final divi-
dend of nearly L. per cent to deposi.
tors. This makes 90 per cent that de.
positors have recovered.
Robert Harte committed suicide the
other day at his farm near Newton in
a fit of dependency. Foreclosure
proceedings had been instituted, by
which he would lose his home.
The street car lines in Kansas City,
Kan, refused the other day to carry
letter carriers free. Arrangements
have now been made whereby they
are 20 receive S72O a year for the serv-
Ice.
Daisy Harris beat Doc. Brown at the
swell colored cake walk at Leaven.
worth Wednesday night. Brown
thought he wasn't beaten fairly and
has challenged Harris to walk again
for $50 side.
A Wichita man offered a reward for
the recovery of the body of his drown
ed son and refused to pay it when it
had been earned. The fellow who
earned the reward sued for it and on
Thursday got judgment for the
amount,
l The rainmaker at Eureka received
his guaranteed $500 Cor the rain of
Wednesday. There were scores of
other towns that caught as much or
more rain whose only tribute to the
rainmaker will be few stray nickels
dropped into the contribution box
next Sunday.
United States Marshal Walker ar.
rested at Ottawa and took to Leaven.
worth, Thursday, c. A. and Clayton
Moore. two Santa Fe strikers, Of
North Ottawa, who will answer the
charge of irtimidating United States
employees before the United States
court at that place.
The great ambition of men of gen.
ius on the Central Branch seems to be
to invent weed cutter, and every sum-
mer from one to half dozen patents
are applied for covering such a ma
chine. The weeds on the Central
Branch are supposed to be worse than
anywhere else on earth, but the inven-
tors seem determined to triumph. The
weed cutters are for use only along
the railroad tracks, where the weeds
grow over the rails and cause the
wheels OF the locomotive to slide. 1t
costs the Missouri Pacific a fortune
every summer to have the weeds cut
along the Central Branch. Heretofore
all patent weed cutters nave been
failures. Globe.
Atchison is paying per cent inter.
est on nearly 100000 worth of munic-
ipal bonds.
The Atchison Y. NJ. c. A. ran a
stand at the grocers' picnic he her
day and cleared $40.
Garden City has a woman's suffrage
club which holds weekly meetings and