People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-09-19

uer WdlerW0fkS 10 De made.
The state irrigation plant at Plain
vile, Rocks county, is nearly ready
for business.
The national encampment of the
Sons of Veterans met in Knoxville,
Tenn, Tuesday.
a Kansas City groceryman has just
been fined $40 for selling milk with
too much water in it.
The Dickinson county grand jury
has indicted thirty persons for sell
ling liquor unlawfully.
The First State Bank of Perry, o.
T., was closed Tuesday on attach
mentS amounting to 100000.
The national irrigation congress
met in Albuquerque, N. NJ, Monday
with 1000 delegates present.
Hail fell at Marshalltown, Iowa,
Sunday evening until the ground was
covered to the depth of a foot.
The broom corn crop of Stevens
county is so big that schools have been
suspended while teachers and pupils
pull it..
Col. John E. Frost of Dodge City
was elected president of the national
irrigation congress at Albuquerque
Tuesday.
Dickinson, AtchisOn and Labette
counties have comfy high schools,
and Greeley is ambitious to be fourth
in the list.
The State Journal says that POI Of
Governor Morrill'S fine hogs on his
lIiawatha farm have died during the
past few days of cholera.
Lincoln county is long on teachers
and short on pupils, and the Republi-
can suggests that the fittest survive
and the rest hunt for jobs at day
labor.
Hutchinson and Wichita travelling
men will cross bats in a second base
ball game at Hutchinson next Satur-
day. Hutchinson won last Saturdays
game at Wichita.
Foot ball is all the rage now. The
aSpirant school boy cuts his hair long
and struts about in eagernesS to dis
play his ability, but he goes home dis
playing disfgured visage.
Henry Starr, the Oklahoma bandit
chief, was convicted of murder in the
first degree in the United States court
at Fort Smith Tuesday. This
means that he will be hanged.
We could now stand a little of that
superfuous dampness that recently
fell on our eastern neighbOrS to such
excess. Farmers say that the top of
the ground is so dry that it is almost
useless to SOW wheat until it rains.
Americans are becoming so much
"HingliSh, don't cher know" that
they can even give lessons to the
OriginatOrs of the cricket game. On
the other hand. the English are be-
coming so much American that they
even want to kindly take care of our
gold reserve for us. We don't know
which is the worse, but the latter
undoubtedly bears with it more sig
nifcance.
In the Hutchinson News, Mr..
Frank Vincent, president of the
Hutchinson Salt company, denies that
John R, and JOab Mulvane have &C.
quired control of the salt industry of
Kansas. Mr.. Vincent says that in
the Hutchinson district there are
eighteen salt plants, Of which the
Messrs, Mulvane own three Mr.. Vim
cent says he is glad they have got
control Of.these plants, for they are
good and conservative business men.
The acquittal Of Talbot, who was
charged with the murder of Mike
Meagher, mayor of Caldwell, Kan,
fifteen years ago. which occurred at
Wellington Saturday, shows that it is
often safer to face the courts than to
run away. After evading pursuit for
fifteen years and living the miserable
life Of hunted man, Talbot was cap
tured at last, only to be acquitted and
freed from the haunting fear which
had Swallowed his life for so long. 1t
is always better to face the music and
have done with it.-Kansas City Star.
The Identity of the "Sweet Pea
girl who has constantly attended
the Durrant trial, and who has at
tracted so much attention by deyo-
tiOn to the alleged murderer, has been
discovered. She is Mrs. Grace Bow.
ers, the wife of an Insurance clerk.
Last Wednesday she left her husband
as a result Of her infatuation for
Durrant. Bowers said that his wife
never knew Durrant, but that from
the beginning she has taken a great
interest in the trial and believes Dur