People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-03-12

her tripe. She sits on a three-legged
stool that weighs quarter of a ton
and when the hired man slips up be-
hind her and plants a kiss on her
cheek, he does 1t with a mouth as
large as horse collar and a report like
natural gas explosion.
The basis of representation to the
Kansas Democratic state conventions
this year was fixed by the state COM
mittee last Friday at Topeka on the
vote cast for Edward ]. Herring, OF
this city, who was the Democratic
candidate for secretary of state in
1894. This is quite merited compli-
ment to Mr.. HeIning, as he received
the highest number Of votes OF any
candidate on the ticket.
Galveston harbOr now has a channel
Of 22feet on the bar which will float
a ship of nearly 1000 tons burthen.
On the Goth inst, the British steamer
DartmOor, drawing q feet, passed
successfully over the bar carrying a
cargo of cotton and corn, destined for
Hamburg. This makes deep water au
assured success, and will be Of vast
interest to the producers and shippers
of grain throughout the west.
A statement Of an official character
is made that the coming season will
witness some tests of speed with pas
Senger trains such as have never be-
fore been undertaken. The New
York Central, the Lehigh Valley, the
Erie and the Pennsylvania lines are
in the movement. Each line is build
ing some large, powerful, fast engines,
introducing a number of improve
ments which will increase their pow
er ard speed.
SllaS A. Hemple, a business man of
Perry, o. T., has received returns
from an assay by the Pueblo Smelt-
ing and Refining company of ore from
the mining district near that place.
The assay showed II per cent silver,
One-half lead, and II copper, making
1914 to the ton. Another vein shows
Upper cent copper and another mine
Is OF gold, and II Of silver. The high
est assay yet was nearly $500 to the
ton. Many people are crOwding there
and the interest is growing.
There are confined in the Kansas
penitentiary 1913 convicts; white
males, 637; white females, 6; Mexican
males, 2; Indian males, I; colored
males, 2lO; colOred females 10. The
Oldest convict is 70 years old and the
youngest Is. The whole number OF
convicts having served sentence In
the penitentiary, together with the
number now confined there, Is 1883.
Wyandotte county has the largest
number Of cOnvicts, SO. Several
counties are not represented at all.
The number Of convicts who have
died while serving sentence is ITO.
There are now 26 old soldiers doing
timein the prison.
The associated press dispatches Of
Thursday tell how the Leadville, Col,
people took the insult offered tie
American flag by the Spaniards.
They say: There was great excite
nlent in this city last night (Wednes-
day. when news was received of the
burning Of the American flag by Span.
ish students In Madrid. The news
cane while the ice palace festivities
Of Irish day were In full blast and
spread like wildfre. A Spanish flag
was secured with some difficulty, and
the crowd gathered kindling wood
laying the flag upon it and setting
it afre. While it burned there was
great cheering and the crowd sang
America and Columbia"
An interesting experiment per-
formed in StreatOr, ILL.,, Friday would
seem to confirm some more electrical
theories. The experimenters were
L. W. Clark, photographer, W. W.
Wooley, optician. and Waiter Rock
well, electrician. In the dark room
at Clark's gallery a half dollar was
fastened to a common hve-by-seven
Photographic plate. The plate and
coin were then placed in light-tight
plate-hOlder and put in a wooden box,
the sides Of which were glued to.
gether. In addition to that they
were cemented with putty, and around
1t all heavy paper was tied. The box
with its contents was taken to the
power house of the street railway,
Here the box was placed on top Of one
Of the dynamOs in use. 1t was al
lowed to remain there for two hours
The box was then taken back to the