People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-03-28
HAPPENINGS In KANSAS.
ITEMS Or INTEREST TO Dwell.
lERS IN THE SUNFLOWER.
The Weeks Rev ew OF Perso nal au d
General News Condensed 10 Short
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Hurried Readers.
DR.. W. N. King. register of deeds of
Dickinson county, died Sunday night,
aged 60. He was ar old settler and
leading physician.
George NJ. Hoover OF Dodge City.
has been appointed receiver of the
Dodge City land Office made vacant by
the death of Mr.. Christ.
The state census will be taken this
year and upon it will be based the rep
resentative and senatorial apportion-
lnent The census is taken every 10
years.
The dry goods firm of Stevenson &
Co., of Topeka, the oldest Of the kind
in that city, failed Saturday afternoon.
Liabilities, $4,000; assets about $685.
900.
Chris Hoff, German banker, COM
mltted suicide in a room in the Ma.
tional hotel in Leavenworth Sunday,
by shooting himself through the head.
de was penniless.
The commissioners O. Bourbon coun-
ty, have offered q reward of $3.50 for
arrest Of the murderer of Ranchman
Lous Strevil who was killed while
alone Friday night.
John L. Rowe, one of the earliest
settlers died of grip at his home three
miles East of Pittsburg Wednesday.
de was 70 years old and had resided
con- 'nuously there for twenty-five
years.
The executive council has appointed
Col Lewis Hanback,. of Kansas City,
Kan, to be transcriber OF the war rec
ords in the adjutant-genera's office.
The legislature appropriated 5000 to
pay for the work.
The Kansas Irrigation Commission
has located the irrigation lants near
the east line of Hamilton county, near
Ulysses. Grant county, near Cimarron.
Gray comfy, near Oakley, in Scott
county, near Goodland. and near AL
mena.
The Missouri Pacific railway people
are expecting damage suit to be
brought against the company as a re-
suit of the killing of Mrs. Allen and
daughter above Nashville several days
ago. Several photographers went. TO
the scene Of the accident to take pict.
ures of the crossing and grade.
DR.. Thomas Y. Arnold, whose funer-
al took place at Lawrence was born ss
years ago in England. He practiced
medicine in Lond, n and was veteran
Of the Crimean war; He came to Law
renee thirty-seven years ago, where ne
practiced medicine until a few years
ago. He was the attending physician
at the birth and death of his second
wife.
The citizens Of Rosemont and Quen.
emo. Usage county, have petitioned
the state board of railroad commits
sioners to compel the Missouri Paciti 1:
railroid, which operates the Kans is,
Nebraska & Dakota railroad, to re-es-
tab ish It's former train service, as pro-
vided in the stipulations under which
aid was voted to the company by the
county.
While John Steckman of Salina was
out hunting Tuesday afternoon he &C.
cidently shot himself. He had his gun
in his hand and was putting dog in
to the wagon when the gun was acct
dentally dis 'harged. He received a
bad wound in the thigh, the bone be-
ing shattered so that a piece was re.
moved by the physicians A few stray
shots lodged in his breast also.
State Bank Commissioner Brieden-
thai say that the failure of The Nation
al Bank of Kansas City will not effect
Kansas banks seriously. About fifty
Kansas banks were correspondents Of
the bank which has failed, but their
accounts are not large. Since the
trouble of this bank in 1893, Kansas
banks have kept only small balances
there, and the failure of the ins.itu.
tons to fully restore the confidence it
lost at that time is no doubt the prin-
cipal cause of its present trouble.
Last Friday there was much excite
ment arounl the Kansas penitentiary
over murderous assault on James ].
Howard, cell house guard, made by
Finnian Wolf, full.bloooed Indian
who is under a life sentence for MUIR
DER. While the convicts were all out
TO dinner but the Indian and one.
armed prisoner, Howard was in the
cell mouse alone with them. He lean
ed over the desk in a drowsy manner,
when the Indian picked up the hatch
ct that was on the desk and struck
him on the head with 1t, fracturing
his skull He was about to repeat the
blow when the one-armed prisoner
grappled with him and managed to
wrench the blade from the handle.
The Indian then cut Howard half a
dozen times on the head and shoulders
with the blade of the Ratchet, then
made rope of his clothing and at