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People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-02-11
A Sweeping Reduction.

The bill which has been recon.
mended for passage by the house CON-
mittee on fees and salaries regulating
the pay OF county officers will cut
quite slice from the salaries now
received by Sumner county officials.
The proposed law grades the salar-
les according to the population of the
different counties.
Under its operation the county
treasurer will receive 81 900. He now
gets $1,000 a year aud furnishes his
own help.
The county clerk now receives
just S2,3OO. The bill proposes to
make his salary the same as the coun-
ty treasurer, $1,000.
The county attorney will get about
$1,000. The Office pays at present
81, 800.
The probate Judge in counties of
less than $1,000 inhabitants will re-
ceive all fees. In this county he will
have his salary cut from about 81, 800
to 81, 200.
The register of deeds will also get
all fees in counties of less than 1000.
Sumner county now pays salary of
81, 200 with an allowance of One-half
of all the fees in excess of $500 re-
ceived each quarter. The new law
will cOnfne him to a 81, 200 yearly in
come.
The district clerk last year received
about $1,000 in fees. The new law
will give him only 81, 200 in fees,
which will make candidates for that
Office decidedly scarce and hard to
find. The experience Of those Off
cials in the past few years proves that
it takes a good rustler in that Office to
collect enough fees to support his
family, to say nothing of contributing
TO campaign funds.
The sheriff's fees last year amounted
to over $1,000. After all his ex-
penses We're paid he probably had
81, 500 left for salary. etc. The new
law will give him about Sl,SOO, the
remainder of the fees received going
to the county. In counties contain
ing population of 1900 or less he
will get all tlfe fees.
For clerk hire the bill provides
amounts in keeping with the general
economical tendencies of the bill, all
of which shall he determined by the
boards of county commissioners.
Witness fees are sl.5O per day in all
courts of records; before justices they
will be, Is cents per day, and neces.
sary mileage at five cents per mile.
Under the new law jurors will receive
the same compensation as witnesses.
Court stenOgraphers will receive
a uniform salary of s. per day and 5
cents per folio.
The county commissioners of this
county will receive a salary of $500
each. They now receive SO per day
for time actually employed, with the
provision that no commissioner shall
receive more than $500 per year.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-02-11
Oklahoma Legislators in the CITY.

A special Pullman car, "Turla," {"
was attached to the Santa Fe from
Winfield Tuesday morning. containing
members Of the Oklahoma legislature,
who were on their way to Woodward
toattend the Live Stock convention.
They left Guthrie that morning and
connected with west bound passenger
at Winfield, arriving here at 1870 for
breakfast. There were about twenty
persons in the party, consisting Of
members Of the lower house Of the
legislature, lawyers and newspaper
men. d. P. Marum, Temple Hous-
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-02-11
Fine and Jail Sentence

Harry Wilhoite, charged with steal.
ing a suit of clothes, plead guilty to
petit larceny before Squire Cox Tues.
day and was given a jail sentence
OF thirty days and fined s25. The
suit OF clothes was returned 10 Al
Bellies, from whom they were stolen.
Wilhoite is lucky in getting off
with a light sentence. Had he made
a fight and evidence secured sufficient
to prove that the clothes were worth
more than $40, he would have been
given a term in the penitentiary.
Inls young man has doubtless learn.
ed a good lesson nevertheless, and it
Is safe to say that the next hotel he
strikes need have no fear of him
carrying away any clothes that do not
belong to him.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-02-11

Good Ginghams, Sc.
Good Shifting, &c.
All Standard Prints, &c.
Good IL Muslin, 4c.
Genuine Lonsdale Muslin, &c
Fruit of the Loom, &c
Excellent Cambria Muslin, Sic
Good Towelling, Sc.
ALI Linen Stevens Crash. Sc
l0c White Pearl Buttons, Sc
Mems Heavy Shirts and
Drawers, 15c.
Embroideries, 1c and upward.
Imported Saxony Yarn, 4c.
Handkerchiefs, lc.
Corduroy Skirt Binding. &c
yard.
Velveteen Skirt Binding. &c
yard.
The grandest array of little
prices ever known in Yelling.
ton. Everything is going
now. Your chance to buy
cheap is now.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-02-11
Program.

The Reading Circle and County
Teachers association will meet at 10
am. and l pm. in the high school
building on Saturday, February q.
The morning session will be devot-
ed to the study Of Human Progress, f"
pages 1876 to 200, and "Krohn's Psycol-
ogy," pages 80 to 2O7, conducted by
Superintendent Bear.
AFTERNOON MEETING.
Music. .......... ..... High School Quartz tie
Memory Gems Maud Price, Wellington
The Teacher and His Work. .A.D.Noel, Perth
Legal Status Of the Teacher.
.................J. NJ. Richards, Perth
Shall Pupils Meet the Requirements Of
Common School Grsdualionss. ......
......G W. Durham, Conway Springs
What Constitutes Success In Teachlngs
.... ..............G. W. Adams, Mayfeld
Current Events. T W. Butcher, Wellington
Reading Of Minutes and Roll Call
J. W. MCLAUGHLIN. President,
G. C. WAKEFIELD, Secretary,
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-02-11
WHEN
IN DOUBT
NUMBER s.

as to whether you are
buying goods cheap enough,
try this store. A comparison
of the prices you are now pay.
ing elsewhere with those we
charge may
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-02
Louis xyps Farewell Message.

The king chose this solemn Christians
festival TO express lis last wishes to HIS.
wife and family and lis justification rs -,
farewell to his people. We will give only
"a short extract from this remarkable docu-
ment: II entreat my wife TO forgive Tno,
all that she has to suffer Tor my sake and
whatever sorrow | may have caused her
during the years of our marriage, as she
may rest assured that / retain no remem-
brance of anything for which she might
be inclined to feel self rcproach. 1 charge,
my son, in case he should ever have tho,
misfortune of being king, to remember
that he must re entirely devoted to the,
happiness of his fellow citizens, that he,
must forget all rancor or hatred, more ess-
pecially with regard 10 the misfortuncs.
and sorrows to which am subjected
The truly Christian feelings of the king
are sufficiently proved by the above ex-
tract from paper addressed to the queen,
but which was not given to her.-Anna.
l.. Bicknell in November Century.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-02
An Easy Trick When You Know 1t.

Writing on "How l Do My Tricks in
the November Ladies' Home journal, Ma
gician Harry Kellar explains how to ac-
complish the difficult feat of blowing a
piece of cork into bottle, trick that
will defy every one who does not know the
only way by which it may be done. Ask
some one," Mr.. Kellar directs, eff he
thinks he can blow small bit Of cork
which you have placed in the mouth of a
bottle, so that it will go into the bottle.
Lay the bottle on the table upon its side
and place the bit of cork about an inch or
less inside the open end. He will blow
until he gets red in the face, and the cork
will invariably come out Of the bottle in
stead of going into it. Simple reason for
It too. The direction Of the air, forced by
the one blowing, brings 1t against the bot
tom of the bottle. The air congresses
within the bottles walls and must find
outlet, therefore is turned and forced out
at the only vent the bottle has, necessarily
blowing the cork out with 1t. But take a
common lemonade straw, place the end OF
IL near the cork in the bottle neck, blow
very gently, and the cork rolls in. !"
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-02
A HERO OF CHlTRAl.
Surgeon Whitchurch's Rescue of a Nor
tally Wounded Officer.

Charles Lowe contributes to the Novem-
Der Century an article entitled 1.-The Story
of Chitral" Mr.. Lowe says:
IL was 7:15 when the fort was regained
by Townshend's party, and at o'clock
Surgeon Captain Whitchurch also re-
turned, staggering along under the bur-
den of poor Captain Baird, who had been
mortally wounded early in the action.
Hence the failure of his thanking force of
so men 10 cooperate at the expected mo-
ment with that of Townshend in "a bayonet
rush upon the loopholed village. But for
the most unfortunate wounding of the gal
liant Baird the Chitral drama might have
taken "a very different course
Whitchurch had brought in Baird by a
circuitous route of nearly three miles in
the face of great difficulties and dangers.
With little guard of dozen devoted
Ghoorkas, several of whom were killed
and wounded, they had to fight their DIES
peratc way back To the shelter of the fort,
Repeatedly had they to set down their
wounded charge and rush with the bay
onet on sungars, or stone breastworks,
thrown up right across their path. Whit
church himself frequently used his re-
volver with effect. Baird was again twice
hit by bullets. That the little party reached
the fort at all was regarded as miracle
But still greater miracle almost was
the coming in, or,srather, creeping in,
two hours later of Jemidar lieutenant
Rab Nawaz Khan of the Fifteenth Bengal
Observation-Disclosures political news writ
er-who in crossing the polo ground had
been set upon by the enemy's swordsmer
and received no fewer than Is tulwai
slashes, but who lived to tell the tale ano
positively thrive upon his wounds. Out
of the $50 of Townshend's 200 men who
had actually been engaged 23 were killed
and 33 wounded. What the corresponding
loss of foe was could not be ascertained
but the British expenditure of ammunition
on this disastrous day had been 10, 93i
snider rounds, or about 106 cartridges pei
man engaged though much of this wa:
lost through the men lying down witt
open pouches.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-02
Special sale for November month at the

Special sale for November month at the
Laurium Fair next to the postoffice.
One hundred and twenty five boys oyer
coats, sizes from to ID, worth from
81 SO IS, at this sale only from $3 to
$l.75; 90.inch youths listers, sizes from
IA to 10, worth from 30 to 30 81, at
this sale from $3.50 to IS; $50 mems
Melton overcoats, worth %, at this sale
81 100 mems listers in Chinchilla,
worth SIS, at this sale go so; 112 men's
listers, in Irish irieze, orth $1S so, at
this sale $11; IT'S pairs mems calf
boots, worth % rs, at this sale $1.4S;
100 OF boys calf boots, sizes from to 5.
worth $3.50. at this sale $1.1O. Give
me call and convince yourself that
what we say is true and that by this
special sale you can cot only save PEN
mes, but dollars as well. The Laurium
Fair. l. FEINBERG K 20.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-02
YANTIc WILL GO TO DETROIT.
Governor Pingree Tried to Bluff but 1t Did
Not Work.

Detroit, Nov. 2.-Governor Pingree re-
ceived telegram from Theodore Roose-
welt. assistant secretary of the navy.
in reply to his telegram to the effect
that the state Of Michigan would not
accept the United States steamship
Yantic until she was repaired, and un-
less the government would assume re-
sponsibility for damages to the Cana
dian steamer Canadienne, caused by her
collision with the Yantic last Friday
Mr. Roosevelt wired: "Yantic is
practically uninjured. If not receipted
for at once she will go to Boston. 9th
ers want her. The navy department has
already spent more money on her than
ii ought to have done"
Governor Pingree referred the tele-
gram to Commander Wilkes Of the
naval reserve. Mr.. Wilkes said later
that Lieutenant Hodges was in Mon
treal and would receipt for the Yantic
and that the vessel would come to De-
troit at once.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-02
A BONANZA WHEAT FARM.
1t Is So Extensive That the Various Crews
of Workmen Never Meet.


1t is difficult to present the idea of the
bigness of these farms to the person whose
preconceived notion of farm is a little
checkerboard lying upon hillside or in
valley. Seven thousand acres present the
average bonanza farm. Generally these
tracts are not divided, yet distances across
fields are so great that horseback commu-
nication is impracticable Crews of work
men living at one end of the farm and
operating it may not see the crews in other
corners from seasons end to seasons end,
and in busy seasons it is found profitable
to feed the hands i'm the fields rather than
to allow them to trpdge through the hot
sun to the dining halls for dinner. The
dining halls--it will be explained later
are scattered over the farm at convenient
points. They are frequently five or six
miles apart, and many noon finds the
harvesting crew two miles from its hall.
This illustration may give one some sort
of a rough conception of the bigness of
these farms. Here is another point OF
view: Averaging go bushels to the acre
as many farms viii this year-the total
number of bushels in a crop on "a bonanza
farm would be 140, 900. Putting 500 bush
els of that crop in a freight car and allow
ing 40 feet to the car the train which
would haul the crop from the farm would
be two miles long, and if it were to come
charging down Fifth avenue and Broad
way in New York the rear end brakeman
would be craning his neck from the ca
boose to catch sight of the Vanderbilt
mansion while the engineer and fireman
were enjoying themselves humping Tic
cable car down by Union square. William
Allen White in November Scribner's.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-02
HE WAS A GENIUS.
This Is shown by Shakespeare's Extraor-
binary Wealth of Varied Knowledge.

binary wealth. OF Narieu hnoWieuSe.
1t is not for moment to be denied that
Shakespeare plays show an extraordinary
wealth of varied knowledge. The writer
was one of the keenest observers that ever
lived In the woodland or on the farm,
in the printing shop or the alehouse or up
and down the street, not the smallest de-
tail escaped him. Microscopic accurac.-,
curious interest in all things, unlimited
power of assimilating knowledge, arc
everywhere shown in the plays. These are
some of the marks of what we call genius,
something that we are far from comprc-
hending, but which experience has shown
that books and universities cannot impart.
All the colleges on earth could not hy
combined effort make the kind of man We
call genius, but such man may at any
moment be born into the world, and II IS
as likely to be in a peasants cottage as
anywhere.
There is nothing in which men differ
more widely than in the capacity for i'm
bibing and assimilating knowledge. The
capacity Is often exercised unconsciously.
When my eldest son, at the age of q, was
in the course of few weeks of daily in.
struction taught to read, 1t was suddenly
discovered that his 4-year-old brother also
could read Nobody could tell how it hap
pened OF course the younger boy must
have taken keen notice of what the eide
one was doing, but the process went on
without attracting attention until the re-
suit appeared John Fiske in November
Atlantic
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-02
Work ON the Farma.

"But surely" said, "more men apply
to you for work than you can possibly en-
ploy."
He looked at me with some wonder At.
my ignorance. "For long time have
been looking for man to help me-" he,
said. I'm growing old, and cans do
the work that once did, and If l could
find the right man I'd keep him the year
round and pay him good wages. But the,
best young fellows go to the cities, and the,
rest are mostly worthless lot THERE'S
hardly day in the year when haven't n
job for any decent man who'll ask for it,
/ have to go looking for men, and then 4
generally can't find one that's any ac-
count. Walter A. Wyckoff in November
Scri buer's
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-02
CHINESE WHEElBARROWS.
They Differ From Ours In Constructions
aud Are Used For Passenger Service.

One Of the chief means of travel and
transport i'm China, especially In the north
ern part of the empire and throughout
the great plain, is the wheelbarrow-not
the wheelbarrow such as we know it, but,
i'm point of fact, decided improvement
on the types used in western countries, for
II is so constructed that the load, which
sometimes is very great in bulk and
weight, is carried over the wheel and not
between it and the man who propels it,
To aid in steadying and propelling IL, as
explained by Mr.. Charles Mayne of Shang-
hal in note recently contributed to the
British Institution of Civil Engineers the
wheelbarrow man wears across his shout
ders strap which is attached to the shafts
on each side Boxes, bales OF goods or
whatever the load may consist of are Sc
cured TO the wheelbarrow by ropes. There
are seating accommodations for four peo-
pie, two on each side, and cushioned seat
is provided for the passenger, who gener'
ally sits with one leg resting on the front
of the barrow and the other hanging over
the side in rope loop which serves as a
foot rest. On the great plain wheelbar-
rows are occasionally seen with sail set,
when fair wind proves to be great help
to the trundling of the barrow.
Since the institution of cotton mills at
Shanghai the wheelbarrow has been ex
tensively used as passenger vehicle, es
pecially for carrying working women to
and from the mills. One man can wheel six
women for a distance of about three miles,
morning and evening, the charge being
Is. cd. per month. The average earning:
of wheelbarrow man are about SID pei
day. About 1000 licenses are ISSUED
monthly to the same number of wheel
barrows plying for hire in the streets o.
the foreign settlements at Shanghai, where
being under the municipal regulations
they are perhaps the best in China Some
times as many as 90 barrows may be seer
in the streets, travelling one behind TIN
other each carrying two barrels of Eng
lsh Portland cement and pushed by on
man. Very frequently load is carried Oh
one side of the barrow only, and it is ex
traordinary to see Chnaman skillfull.
balancing and propelling it, The upset
and accidents, too, are remarkably few
| when it is considered that about 4, 900 o
| these vehicles are in use in the streets II
addition to large traffic of other kinds
CASTER Magazine
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-02
OREGON'S MARTYRS.
Anniversary of the Massacre of DIR. Whit
man, Who Saved Oregon to the Union

man, Who Saved Oregon to the Union
eleven years of the united life of DR.
and Mrs. Whitman had passed, writes
George Ludington Weed of DIR. Whitman'ss
patriotic achievement in saving Oregon tcs.
the United States in the November La
dies Home Journal "ln all his laborss
she had been an inspiration and support
sometimes the only one But the life on
romantic beginning was TO have tragic
ending Whatever the causes OF that end
ing, direct or remote, or whatever their
relative force. the result was one of the,
saddest in American history. In it DR.
and Mrs Whitman must ever be recog-
nized as the Christian patriot martyrs al
Oregon.
1.-THE fatal day was Nov. 20, 1S47, just
half "A century ago this month. The full
tale of its horrors need not here be told. ,
| though the incidents are at hand The,
| partly lifted curtain reveals enOugh--Dr-.
| Whitman's fall by the tomahawk aS thfs
] age of As and Mrs. Whitman's by the rifle
/ at the age of 80. There was a shallow,
I grave invaded by wolves and then deep
er one, which until now has been without
monument. Twelve Others of their
| household, butchered with them, share
! their grave. But the memory OF the long
J forgotten hero is being revived. "A bronze
! statue Is being erected near the spot III ING
region of his triumph and martyrdoln- As
! in palace car | was hurried through NJ,
where his lone wagon had tediously sought
the way, he seemed everywhere present
| and each mountain monument recording
| his deeds
"The Oregon saved from falling into
the possession of the English by Dr. Whit
! mans heroic efforts means the Washing
ton, Oregon and Idaho of today, terri
tory of 27l, 600 square miles, equal TO New
England, New York, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
West Virginia and three Connecticuts-,
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-02
New York,s Great Public Library.

The space now occupied by the reservoir
which makes such n picturesque feature
of the Fifth avenue vista is 1872 by 400
feet, SO that there will be room for an
ediflce of really magnificent dimensions,
with sufficient space about it to insure
plentiful supply of light and air. The
structure will cost 81, 700 600, exclusive
of heating, lighting and all interior equip
ment. 1t will measure about 23O by $40
feet, which would allow about 20 feet OF
ground on the Fifth avenue front and
about 81 on Fortieth and Forty second
streets. On the west side there is, hap
PLY, Bryant park, with its pleasant relief
of green foliage. The stone building will
probably be faced with Indiana limestone.
The book stacks will be in the first and
second stories and the basement leaving
the third story for the reading room and
other purposes. Scribner's.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-02
Satin Stocks and Linen Collars.

The newest stocks are of satin cut on
the bias and interlined with crinoline.
They form plain band, hooking at the
back, with ends brought to the front and
tied there in short bow. Linen collars
worn with flannel and silk shirt waists
have a string tie OF fourth hand scarf. A
yard and quarter of three inch ribbon,
plaid, striped or figured, is worn as a
stock, folding it softly across the front to
the back, crossing it there, bringing it to
the front again and there knotting it like
a fourth hand tie. Never put lace ruffle
or lace i'm any form in the collar of a shirt
waist. Lace ruffles or trimmings of lace
may be used with any other style of dress
waist.-November Ladies' Home Journal.