People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-05-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

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has been running 1000 years, but the
japanese haven't been after them all
that time.
| The Kansas corn this year started
out in a way that indicates that it is
going to die as many times as Bill
Dalton before August.
All the street railways of Kansas
City have been consolidated under
one management. The new company
has capital of sS,5OO,OOO.
Apparently the heads Of some peo-
pie were given them merely as con-
venient bumps upon which to do up
their hair.-Galveston News.
Beer is sold on the base ball grounds
at Leayenworth. The managers said
they must have full" attendance
and that was the only way they could
get it.
The st. Louis banker who has for.
hidden his clerks to attend horse races
on pain Of being discharged, believes
that step In time may save a trip to
Canada.
The news from Cuba flip-fop day by
day. One day the insurgents are en-
tirely squelched; the next days dis
patches announce them as successful
all along the line.
The Lawrence girls are the first to
adopt the kind Of sleeves that button
on, because the university boys kick
ed about having to stand of at arms
length.-Lawrence Gazette.
The Minneapolis Messenger says
that a stOckman brought a two line
local to that Office last week which he
wanted run in the paper one week,
and had the gall to ask it to take a
horse as payment.
The internal revenue collector has
already telegraphed all collectors all
over the country to forward him full
reports of the amounts they have col
lected under the income tax law just
declared unconstitutional. The total
collections under this law aggregate
$50, 900 all of which will be refunded.
Rebellions are reported in various
parts of China and it is beginning to
look as though the venerable Celestial
Kingdom is on the verge Of dissolu-
tiOn. Out of the chaos. however,
something more modern and more
progressive than the old realm is sure
to arise.
Perhaps the best orchard in Green
wood county is that Of Isaac Wyant's.
1t comprises 80 acres of apple orchard.
The trees ranging in age from six to
twenty years. He has ten acres of
miscellaneous fruit trees, forty acres
Of Ben Davis apple trees and fifty
acres Of. Missouri pipins.- Eureka
Times.
A few days ago we heard ola man
in this locality, who wanted to sell
his good, well-improved bottom farm,
and go back to Michigan. Just think
Of it-four inches ofsnOw, fruit killed,
shade trees frozen to death, garden
sass cold and stiff, and the mercury
down below "freezo." Better abide
here.-Mulvane Record.
Monday change took place in the
assignment Of territory to the route
agents Of the United States Express
company. G. E. Taylor, who has had
his headquarters in Topeka and has
had the northern part OfSKansas and
Nebraska for the past three years, has
been transferred to Iowa with head
quarters at Des Moines.
According to reports Of the military
information division Of the adjutant
generals Office Of the war department,
there are 9,945,O44 persons In the
United States liable to military duty
10000 OF them In Kansas and $780,
600 in Missouri. The organized mill.
tia strength Of Kansas is 1,724; Of
Missouri 2,1O6 and Of Oklahoma 100.
Relentless war has been declared
between Sol Miller Of the Troy Chief
and Ewing Herbert Of the Hiawatha
World. This weeks World reviews
Miller's career in Kansas and sums
up as follows: "He is powerless.
His neck has worn a brass collar 80
long that he cannot strike. He
is a poor fangless, blear-eyed old
reptile, whose hide is torn in many
fight with the good he saw around
him. His head is crushed but his tail
will wiggle until shutdown" The
time seems to have passed when the
newspapers Of Kansas feared Sci Mil
Ter and the wrath Of the political
syndicate whose tool and recognized
mouth piece he has always BEEN
Mail.
Washington, May 1S.-The secreta-
ry Of the interior today rendered de-
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