People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-06-20
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MI MdheptdCe llONtu IIOLl ~ SucGt
to EldoradO, but gave it up as a baC
Job.
Right now the green Of the Kansas
corn is best reproduced in water
colOrs.
Topeka has 400 wheels-a falling of
Of several millions since the late legis.
iature.
TOpeka's population has fallen of
7I9 in one year. Her population is
now 3O,0O5.
Perhaps those nuggets discovered in
Oklahoma are only the eggs of some
wandering gold bug.
What will the gold bug 90 next:
The rumOr that the silver sentiment
is dying out is itself dying out.
Bicyclists must limit their speed to
SIX miles per hour III Topeka hereafter
to prevent injUring policemen.
Garden City has female Cemetery
Club. We will wager our full deposit
that they don't hold night sessions.
The Humane society Of Kansas
city has been making it hot for a man
name Yauhzy on account of his name.
Perry, o. T., is now bidding for the
new Santa Fe round house to replace
the one recently burned at Arkansas
City.
Talk about Italian climate. If we
haven't been having it here for the
last week, then Italy must certainly
be paradise,
1t is charged that Mrs. COrbett is
50 angry with her husband that she
proposes to make a few side bets on
fitZSimmOnS.
The nearest they can get to a civic
federation in Wichita is to have the
Topeka papers keep up writing of
needed Wichita reform.
What has become of the old fashion.
ed farmer who used to bring a tubful
OF strawberries and other delicacies
into the editor every season.
The Prohibition convention at To-
peka will collapse when it hears that
jOintistS in Wichita have risen to the
dignity of being called publicanS.
A Wichita mOtOrman struck a
colored man on the head the other
day. He is expected to be able to
use his hand some time this summer
Three more lunaticS have ESCAPED
from the insane asylum and gone
to Topeka to help in the excited effort
of purifying the liquor traffic in Wich-
tia.
The irrigation experiments in West
ern Kansas are being carried on with
much difficulty, owing to the fire.
quency of cloud bursts and heavy
rains.
A burglar entered the Sheriff's Of
flee at Wichita last week, broke into
the money drawer and robbed it of
SIT. He escaped without leaving any
clue behind him.
FitzSimmOns weighs 1S5 pounds
and COrbett lSS. If the Dallas min
listers will watch the evolution of a
prizefght step by step they will find
it intensely interesting.
A Pacific coast meat company Is re-
ceiying large orders from Russia for
corned beef. Retired San Francisco
street car horses are said to make up
into excellent corned beef.
The postal department recommends
the use of the bicycle for letter car.
riers. Hereafter if your letter is be-
hindyOu may conclude that the car.
rier is mending a puncture.
The Prince of Wales intends revis.
iting this country, but does not wish
to be liOnized. His wishes will be re-
Spected and Americans will thus
maintain their self respect.
A young man in New York has CON-
mitted suicide because he believed in
Bob IngersOll His act may have
been hot-headed, but the temperature
of his head was nothing to what it is
now.
Governor Morrill, has signed the
official documents restoring to citizen
ship Bob jameson, the negro sent to
the penitentiary from this county for
stealing A, H. Barnes wheat near
Oxford.
There are not so many bankers,
'fnancierS and federal office holders at
the convention now in session at Men,
phiS, cas- there was at the sound
money" convention recently held
there, but there are more people.
The Hiawatha World runs the fol-
lowing line at the head of its first
page column rules: "Do the Joints
thrive here because the people don't
care damn" And echo answers.