People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-03-24
Major Ferguson, on behalf of the city,

Aph iAANNc w Is uU udS HlCu dlI UU-
lection III probate court TO the ap-
pOintment Of a special administrator
in the matter of the estate Of ]. W.
Wright, deceased, and urges his own
appointment as executor according to
the provisions Of the last written will
of the deceased. An appeal will be
taken to the district court.
Col. Bill Nutting, somewhat of
Leoti, and somewhat of several other
frontier towns, who bas had the degree
of DR.. conferred upon him because of
running a joint as that town, went
down to Sumner county lately, and
got bullet through him in a saloon
fight. He will be all right in a few
days. Bullets have no terrors for a
set of intestines that have been edu-
Gated to western Kansas joint whis-
XXX. c, Tribune.
Among the improvements to be
made by the Santa Fe in connection
with the new PecOs Valley extension
are steel bridges over the Minnesota
river at Belle PLANE, at Alva, o. T.
and at Woodward, OF. The bridge
at Woodward will be / of a mile long.
The Santa Fe will also build large
coal chutes, housing tracks and a
$1,000 water tank at South Haven,
made necessary by the proposed line
of the st. L. X. & S. W. to KAY Cen.
ter.
The board of trustees of the South
west Kansas Conference college which
met Tuesday at Lyons, reelected DR..
c. A. Place president of the college at
Winfield by a unanimous vote. DR..
Place had asked for an extended leave
of absence in order to travel and study
in Europe, but it is understood he has
changed his mind and will remain at
Winfield for at least another year.
Rev. Cyrus S. NuSbaum, financial
secretary of the ME. college, has been
transferred from this district and has
been assigned a church at Ottawa.
IL is stated thatif President Ripley
of the Santa Fe, decides to locate the
terminal of the PecOs Valley at Wash
burn, passenger trains will begin
running to Washburn over the Pan.
handle division by April 10. The
Santa Fe is figuring on purchasing the
Forth Worth & Denver branch be.
tween Washburn and Panhandle.
This purchase will he made if salts
factory arrangements cannot be made
for terminal point at Amarillo. At
present the passenger runs only as far
as WoOdward; from Woodward to
Panhandle it is mixed train.
The Wellington boys were downed
at the gun club shoot at Oxford last
Friday. They were beaten by the Ok
ford club by a score OF 2Sl to 27l.
The Wellington club issued a ehal-
ienge to the Oxford club to meet them
on the home grounds some time with
In the next two weeks. when the Vel.
llngtOn boys expect to win the cham
piOnShip. Fetters and Totty tied on
the best score made blythe Wellington
club, So out Of a possible 50. Haugh-
ey'S score was 80: Will Jordan, 81:
DR.. Emerson, 80; Will Savage, 30; AL
Russell, 20; G. W. Schwinn. 20; ]. R.
HeSkett, 10; Harve COverdale, Is.
The Wright will litigation has be.
gun in district court. Tom Hicks
Wright, the beneficiary of the last
written will, has sued Amanda Diet
rick, Ann BrOadhurst and A. S.
Wright as benefciaries of the alleged
nuncupative will. Tom Hicks Wright
asserts that the verbal will is a forg.
cry, gotten up by the defendants for
the purpose of making away with the
old mans estate. The plaintiff also
in his petition that the de.
PENDANTS were guilty of entering into a
conspiracy with their mother in her
suit for divorce and alimony, and
that the alimOny was divided among
them, that being the cause of the es-
arrangement of the old man and his
children.
Assistant Superintendent Hopkins
and W. j. Lingenfelter, chairman of
the board of managers OF the Hutch.
inson refOrmatOry, are having diff
Guilty getting hold of young Mack Fife,
the youthful thief who stole W.E.O.
Rush's horse and buggy and who is
under arrest at Arkansas City for
stealing horse and buggy of livery.
man at that place. Fite was out on
parole when the thefts were commit.
ted. A writ of habeas corpus was
served on the COwley county officers
to get Fite back into the hands of the
reformatory officials, but the writ was