People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-09-12
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DUDlIC last week.
Uncle sam owes nearly $3,OO0OO(
more than be diJ Aug. l, but we must
&eep still about it Of course.
The time If Tom Ogden, the Sum.
nec county pacing horse, in his recent
race at GaleSburg, H., was 2:O7!.
Dr. Fraker is now incarcerated in a
Kansas City Jail. He ought to ask
the life insurance companies to bail
min ont.
"A suit has been brought by c. J.
lKelcher of Wichita TO test the cOnsti-
dutiOnality Of the nuisance" clause
of the prOhibtory law.
Pittsburg is on the verge of another
sariStOcTatic divorce sensation, 50 says
the Daily Smelter. We always
'thOught it took something out of the
ordinary to Create sensation.
Zip" Wyatt, the notorious outlaw,
who has been lying wounded at Enid,
will never figure in any more outlaw.
ny, He died at noon last Saturday
He had nothing to say before he died.
The Chanute Tribune is figuring on
getting out an eight-page addition
each Saturday, and just to get ready
for the first one il is begging the peO-
pie of Cha1ute to save their midweek
items until Saturday.
The Arkansas City Traveller speaks
'1f a family coming to Wellington to
spend a ninety days lay off on the
farm. Thanks. The farm is not in
wellington but near it, We presume.
We don't use the streets for meadows
over here.
Those French counts are not up to
date or they could marry maiden of
royal blood, reach Oklahoma and pro.
cure a divorce, and then have enough
Of the dOwry left TO make Uncle Sam
"A respectable loan just to keep up the
gold reserve.
People en- the Pacific coast are get
ting scared about the cholera. If
this disease should reach that coast
from the west it would forever ruin
the old tradition that cholera never
travels eastward, to say nothing of
q tler consequences.
LeayenwOrth, Sept. 6.-The direc-
%crs Of the penitentiary yesterday
Afternoon appointed the Rev. John
M0orhead of Baldwin, Kans.. chaplain
OF the prison to succeed the Rev.
Briggs, September Is. The new ap-
POintee is Methodist.
POnca City and Cross, Oklahoma,
are now connected with Wellington
by telephone. If the Missouri and
Kansas Telephone Company continue
extending their lines as in the past,
we will be 10 direct communication
with all our friends round about.
J stranger on a train passing
Thu Ough Fort Scott, noticed the large
amount OF beer in cases and kegs,
That was put of the express car, ask
ed IN old cOlored man, SIS this prohi-
'oitOa Kansas" mo sab, dis am
Fort Scott, Kansas" was the reply
State Journal,
The city council Of Perry has finally,
after much discussion, passed the cur.
Few ordinance. This is due to the ex.
eeFtiOnS of the churches and the Moth
"er'S league. The age limit is fixed at
IL years, and the prescribed hours are
from y P. m, ~ a. m. The fire
whistle will sound the curfew.
Ehe state department has received
word that the Waller court martial
record is expected from Madagascar
ia less than two weeks, but it will be a |
month before it can reach the DEPART
nent. In the meantime nothing will |
probably be done with the case for it |
has been determined to do nothing to |
sandangel Walters claim for damages. |
Governor Morrill, says that since he
HAS been advised by Attorney G. neral
Dawes that special session Of the
Legislature in 1896 is not constitu-
ftiOnai necessity, he will not call one |
Tor the sole purpose of reapportiOning
The state. Should an emergency arise
dateC he may call one, but he antici.
Dates nothing Of the kind now.
Arkansas City has organized a lyce-
um.assOciation on the same basis as
Ehe Lecture Club of Wellington.
They furnish six attractions for 81 |
per season ticket, with the promise of
extra attractions as the funds NAV
allow. Wellington assures nine at
fractions for the same money and gen.
orally receives from twelve to fifteen
An enterprising farmer in Mime
Aaha county, S. D., believer in an arti.
fetal water supply for agriculture.
ecut ditch from the Big Sioux river
20 bis farm and succeeded in turning
the course of the stream. As result
fba CirYv Eol1,