People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-05-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

tl0n OF y 20.
There are twenty-three candidates
for sheriff of Sedgwick county and the
returns are not all in yet.
a large and growing demand for
corn is noticed in Europe. The Kan
sas fields will endeaVOr to rise to the
occasion.
The ThrOop hotel at Topeka will be
sold at sheriff sale on June 24th to
satisfy judgment Of $Sl, 1913, interest
and costs.
Hugh McCullOch, secretary Of the
treasury under Presidents Lincoln,
johnson and Arthur, died in New
York Friday.
The state association of bankers
adjourned its meeting at Topeka
without expressing themselves on the
silver question.
Oklahoma City has an enterprising
merchant who closes up his display
adyel tisement with: pray for rain
and plant cotton"
The members of the Missouri legiS-
lature took dinner at the state peni-
Tertiary recently. There is an i'm
preston abroad that they ought to
dine there Oftener.
When a Wellington man draws his
pension some wicked neighbOr, who
is cOgnizant of the fact, Sand-bags
him and takes what the government
gave,-Udall Reporter.
The Spanish authorities in Cuba
have adopted the right plan to stop
the insurrectiOnist victories. They
have forbidden American press cor
respondents to visit the revolution
lists.
Newton will on May Is, have a spe.
cial election to vote on issuing $50, 900
bonds to purchase the waterwOrkS
plant of that city. COtfeyville voted
on a similar proposition the other day
and it resulted 500 for and 9 against.
Every issue of the Abilene Reflector
for the past two or three weeks has
contained an account of the cOnvic-
ton Of one or more jOintiStS in dis
trict court. Abilene must have gone
back to its condition of the old cattle
shipping days.
Judge Priest has given Minnie Rob-
inSOn a judgment for $j,376.16 against
the United States Mutual Accident
Association. This establishes the
proposition that woman who is en-
gagged to marry man has an insura-
BILE interest in his life.
An A. 0. L. W. certificate was
picked up west of Solomon the other
day that had been, it is claimed.
blown from Halstead, 70 miles away
by the tornado of ten days ago. 1t
bore the name of a man of that local
ity and was found in a newly titled
feld.-Abilene Reflector.
The supreme court has Overruled
motion for an iUJunction which was
sought by Douglass people to stop the
work of rebuilding the Butler county
court house at EldOradO. The court
then sustained the position of the
lower court in refusing the Injunction
and the court house will be rebuilt.
The Monitor, a new monthly maya
zine has made its appearance in Win
field under the auspices of the G. A.
r. 1t is neat thirty-six page edi-
ton and Is under the management of
Mrs. Emma B. Dalton. 1t will re-
ceive contributions from members of
the G, A, R. and W. R. c. but will re.
main nOn-partisan in politics
Birds are very scarce this spring
Have you noticed it? The blue bird
and robin and the hooking bird are
seldom seen or heard. If it were not
for the pesky English sparrow the
feathered flyers would hardly have
any representation now. The severe
cold in the south at the time the
oranges were killed, also DESTROYED |
millions of birds.
Sheriff Murdoch of Chase county
Friday stopped three train loads
Of cattle being shipped east over the
Santa Fe because the shippers did not
have the certificates and passports of
the state live stock sanitary commits
sion. The cattle were from New
Mexico and are now at Bazaar. Chase
county, where they will be kept until
released by the live stock commits
SiOnerS.
The ex-Confederates camp of indie
pendence, Kansas, has declined to
take part in the Decoration Cay exer-
eiseS as proposed by the Commercial
club and the G. A. R. post there. As
sufficient reason they call attention
to the article from a Kansas G. A. R.
commander published last week in
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