People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-06-01

seen at 0Swego, Labette county, last
Monday, according to the News
> A Butler county town may properly
be referred to as Dennis, but no town
in the state will own up that its name
is Mud
Mcpherson thinks that when the
court house now under way S COM
pleted it will have the finest building
of the kind in Kansas.
An excursion of FIVE coach loads
people from Concordia and other Gen.
trail Branch towns visited the Soldiers
Home at Leavenworth on Sunday.
The Coxeyites under arrest at Leav-
enworth made up a base ball nine
Sunday and swiped It to the South
Leavenworth team to the tune of Ii
to Is.
The Wichita Fair association will
open series of racing mat1nees on
Friday afternoon. 1t is the intention
to give matinee every two weeks all
summer.
Miss Lizzie Farr, for several years
teacher IN Fort Scott and Bourbon
county, left Tuesday on her way to
New York, where she will depart for
China as Baptist missionary.
The Rock Island road has two rain
makers at work, one at Phillipsburg
and the other at Charming, Tex. The
company also has a force of well Dig
gers in the field and is determined to
find moisture either above or below.
1t cost Seneca man $3.50 because
he allowed a goose of his to trespass
upon his neighbours premises-and
this although he proved beyond ques-
ton that the goose went visiting for
the express purpose of laying the gold
Ell egg.
One result of the recent storm at
Chicago was the destruction of the old
cottonwood tree which stood at Eighth
street and in the shade of which the
terrible Fort Dearborn massacre was
perpetrated by the Indians, August
Is, 1880,
Ellsworth county will vote on May
% on a proposition TO issue So, 900
worth of bonds for the purpose of TAX
ing up the floating indebtedness of the
county. The bonds, if issued will run
twenty years and will bear per cent
interest.
Lightning struck the Smith Center
school house on Wednesday while
school was in session. No one was
hurt and no great amount of damage
was done, but teachers and pupils all
thought they had an interesting ard
exciting time.
An Independence, No, newspaper
reporter is on his way through Kansas
from Kansas City to Mexico on wa
ger that he could start without a cent
and return with hundred dollars in
his pocket. The traveller spent Mon.
day in Ottawa.
The premature discharge of an old
horse pistol used in a play at Pitts
burg Wednesday night scared several
of the audience out of a weeks
growth. A little girl was burned in
the face by the powder, but was not
seriously injured. ....
jackson county has sent a man TO
Lawrence to study in Professor Shows
laboratory the methods of propagating
the tungOus chinch bug disease. When
he returns a local distributing station
will be established at Holton and in
lection distributed from there.
Noah Bally, a colored school boy of
u, is in Jail at Kansas City, Kan.
charged with inhicting probably fatal
injuries on a playmate named Brown.
While playing near the school grounds
Baily struck Brown on the head with.
piece of brick, tracturing his skull.
Brown may not live.
Greene Graves is the name of new
doctor who has located at Kensington
and advertises that he has Just grad.
uated from medical college. 1t is
seldom that man is fortunate enough
to start in life with a name that ex-
actly suits the business he is engaged
in.-Gaylord Herald.
DC. Young, under indictment at
Guthrie for adultry with Mrs. Smith.
against whom Mr.. Smith recently re-
ceived judgment of $40, coo damages
for alternating the affections of his
wife, has jumped his bond and left the
territory. When last heard of he was
in Indianapolis and an effort will be
made to apprehend him. The woman
In the case is supposed to be with him.
There are nearly $40, Doom the LYON
county treasury .
Arrangements have been commenc.
ed for the the next reunion of the
Grand Army of the Republic which is
to be held in Hutchinson August l4-1s.
The committee has ordered 500 tents
and the adjutant general has assure |
them that the tents will be forthcom-
ing, and that any assistance he can
render them in any manner that will
aid in making the reunion success
he stands ready to give. r..
Dixon Cooper was arrested at Salina
the other day charged with seduction.
He left his wife in Nebraska and went
with a girl under is to Sahua. The
couple lived as man and wife until
Cooper's lawful wife located him.
when there was trouble at once.
Cooper was bound over for trial in the
sum of $500. The girl clings TO him
and the two insists that they will
marry yet.
Fifteen years ago a Holton man in
scribed on his wife's tombstone:
Farewell, dear Lucinda: angels will
guard thy tomb" But it seems that
he was TALKING throu1b he -. r