People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-06-16

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has been determined upon to test the
validity Of section 6S75 Of the COM
piled laws Of 1889, which provides that
all the property Of any railroad com.
pany, in or out Of the state shall be
filed.
The ticket nominated by the Re.
publicans at Hutchinson last week, is
as follows: For governor, W. E.
Stanley; for lieutenant governor, H.
E. Richter; for secretary of state,
Geo. R. Clark; for state auditor,
George Cole; for treasurer, Frank E.
Grimes; for attorney general, A. A..
Goddard; for superintendent OF public
instruction, Frank Nelson; for associ.
ate justice, W. R. Smith; for congress.
man.at-large, W. ]. Bailey.
The railroads have made very low
rate to Kansas and Oklahoma for har.
vest hands from Illinois, Iowa, Mis-
souri,, Nebraska, Arkansas, Texas and
Colorado. One, two or three persons
may ride en- one fare ticket; fsur
persons for one and One-third fare;
FIVE persons for one and two.thirds
fare, and six persons for double the
regular One.way fare. This amounts
to one-third the regular fare for each
person In parties Of three or more.
The Winfield Courier says: The
city Of Winfield has the distinction of
having the first electric semaphore or
"block" signal in successful operation
west Of Pittsburg, Pa, and of course
Winfield feels swelied a little. The
block extends from Winfield Junction
to South Winfield, distance of about
one mile, and is the latest and best
device In the way of signals. The
continuance 10 simple 10 construction
and works automatically. A battery
is stationed at each end of the block
and train entering the switch at one
end throws the signal at the other
end, thus preventing one engine en-
tering the block while another engine
10 inside. 1t makes no difference
which way the engine is going no
other engine can enter while the sig.
nal is closed, and this also keeps trains
on this line at least three minutes
apart. 1t was installed by the Union
Switch and Signal company under the
Westinghouse patent and in railroad
parlance 1t seems to be about the
whole thing.
Saturday night between $50 and lis
tramps and harvest hands arrived on
the Rock Island local from the north.
The majority Of them went on
through to Oklahoma, some OF them
dropping of here and at Caldwell
The men practically had possession Of
the train. They were only a small
portion of the crowd of eastern labor
ers who have invaded Kansas since
June /, looking for work In the hsr-
vest fields. The men boarded the
Rock Island train at Wiehita. Con.
ductor Scott, who was In charge OF
the local, telegraphed to Herington
that his train was crowded with
tramps and asked what to do. The
Rock Island division superintendent
telegraphed orders back to carry the
men to their destination, as they were
harvest hands and would be needed iu
southern Kansas and Oklahoma. II
was an odd sight to see the men a.
they arrived and departed. There il
little question but the great majority
of them are honest laborers looking
for work. They have been attracted
to Kansas by the stories OF a wonder
full wheat crop this year and by adyer,
tisements placed in eastern paper:
for harvest hands to help gather
the crop. Wellington has been over
run with strangers for more than a
week past. Nearly all of them engage
! work readily. While the men are