People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-01-03

Kew. >. ID Botkin has purchased the
FL Dorado Advocate.
AdeEa Williams of Topeka, has
been adjudged insane.
William Martin, the Emporia poll
tician, is agin the metropolitan police
law.
A Newton boy has accepted a posi-
ton as night car sealer, according to
the local press.
The Populist State Central Commit.
tee meets in Topeka the first week in
the New Year.
Lansing, the home of the penitenti-
DRY, istO be Incorporated as a city Of
the fOufth-class.
Frank Drummond, well known in
railway and commercial circles died
at Topeka on Christmas.
In Washington Saturday Jerry Simp-
son and Senator PETER eulogize Burns
the English labor leader.
Pupils attending Central College at
Enterprise hung one OF the lady teach
ers in efigy few days since.
The thirty. second annual meeting
of the state school teachers assoeia-
ton met in Topeka last week
Dick Hurst Of Wellington. was ar
rested in Wichita last week for pass
ing counterfeit money.
A little girl, twelve years old. living
near Kingman, was thrown from her
horse on Christmas and killed.
James Winbern, well-known stock
man, was found dead in his buggy
near Atchison few days ago.
A few nights ago 0lpe, south of En-
poria, had depot robbery, ashooting
scrape, fight and an elopement.
Colonel Daniel Grass, ex.state sena.
tor and prominent lawyer died at his
homo in independence last week.
After January i, 1895, penalty OF
slcO will be imposed upon the guilty
who sells cigaretts in Emporia,
Salina has rendered the handsome
residence OF the late W. A. Phillips to
the Masonic fraternity for home.
The defunct Exchange bank at
Goodland will resume business the
first of the year and pay depositors in
full.
Wichita is proposing to investigate
the gaseous regions and will make
a Sl0,0OO hole somewhere near the
city.
Anderson Gray, murderer Of Thomas
Patton, was given his death sentence
by Judge Burnett at Wellington last
week.
iDr. Mullin, a prominent man OF Edo,
fred five shots into the body of VIM.
Black, coal miner, killing him in
stantly.
II is rumored that Governor Level.
ling intends to dissolve the Leaven-
worth police board before he retires
from Office.
Col. S. R. Salmons, OF Larned and
founder of the old settlers society of
1898. died, December 80, in Kansas
City, while undergoing surgical op-
Grafton.
Sumner, a once famous town of 1000
people and the home of Hon. John ].
Ingalls, in early days has forfeited its
charter and will be cultivated as a
farm next summer.
J. W. Maddux, postmaster at Geuda
Springs, is short 500 in his accounts
with Uncle Sam. Maddux left for
parts unknown and his bondsmen will
be called upon to settle, "
The drawing for the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, valued at $40, 900, at Arkansas
City, took place on December 90.
Ticket 4s,954 held by Henry Linn OF
Guthrie, o. T., drew the prize.
The experiments conducted for the
past two weeks at Goodland and other
points demonstrated the fact that irri-
CATION for the western territory is be-
yond failure and an immense acreage
will be put under the pumps the COM
ing season. Experiments show that
at cost Of s3j pumping apparatus
Of sufficient capacity TO water from
ten to twenty acres Of land, can be
erected.
Kansas ships her Walnut logs 10
France, and thousands of car loads
have been shipped within the past
two years. The shipments are made
TO Chicago by rail, thence by the lakes
and the st. Lawrence river to the sea-
board and across the Atlantic to
France, where it is manufactured into
veneer.
The following bill will be introduc-
ed in the legislature at its converting:
That the sum of $40, 900 be appropri-
ated out of any fund not otherwise
appropriated for the unexpired bal.
ance Of the year ending June 30, 1895.
and the sum Of $4,000 for the year
ending June 80, 1896, and $4,000 for
the year ending June 30, 1897, to be
expended by the State Beard Of Agri-
culture in behalf Of developing the
irrigation interests Of the state by the
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