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People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-04-14
Dyspepsia
Conquered
BY Hoods SarsaparilIa.

81 have been a sufferer with dyspepsia.
could not eat anything without distress.
/ began taking Hoods SarsapariIls and
after the use Of a few bottles of this med
icine am able to eat anything wish and
my food does not distress me. Hoods
Sarsaparilla has purified my blood and !
believe it to be the best Of medicines. /
have felt better in every way since taking
it." EVA CRAIG, Fort Scott, Kansas.
/ "After trying many prescriptions for
dyspepsia without benefit l got bottle
Of Hoods sarsaparilla and found it gave
me great relief. I continued taking it
until i was cured" Mrs. SARAH CABLE,
Durachen, Kansas.
II you have decided TO take Hoods Sar-
saparilla do not buy any other instead.
sp psriiis
Is the One True Blood Purifier All druggists.
Price, 81; six for S.. Get only Hoods.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-04-14
The Coming of Baby.

When baby comes TO the bouse
real happiness comes. The care anC
anxiety count for nothing against
the cllnglng touch OF the little hand.
and the sound Of the little Voice. The
highest function given 10 human
beings is bringing healthy, happ,
children into the world. Over thirty
yearsago the needs Of women appealed
TO DR.. Pierce, now chief consulting
physician to the Invalld's Hotel and
Surgical Institute, Of Buffalo, N. Y.
The result Of his study improved by
thirty years Of practice is embodied
10 DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription.
1t strengthens, purifes and makes
healthy the organs distinctly feminine.
1t gives weak women the strength
and health necessary for the produc.
ton OF healthy children and il makes
the bearing Of those children easy.
1t Is sure to cure any weakness or de.
rangement peculiar to women; stops
pain, soothes Inflammation, strength
ems, purifles. invigorates.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-04-14

Even in war times there are certain
things that no nation will do. For
example, it is perfectly legitimate to
blow up ship or fort with dynamite,
and tear hundreds of human beings
to pieces, but it would be forbidden to
shoot red hot shot, chain shot or hol-
low shot. Red-hot shot were used in
the wars of Frederick the Great. Can
non balls were heated red hot and
fired. to combine the horrors of fire to
those OF conclusion. Chain shot was
even more cruel In effect. A pair of
cannon were loaded with balls, con-
nected by chains, the guns being close
together, but trained to such an angle
as would spread the balls apart when
the two fuses we're lighted stmultane-
ously. By means Of the chain large
bodies OF men might be mangled ter
ribly. These practices were stopred
by international agreement. Hollow
shot were also interdicted because
they became flattened when in con.
tact with a bone, thus making wounds
unnecessarily painful. The use Of
poison is barred, and also the use Of
explosive shells weighing less than
fourteen ounces. A dynamite shell
Weighing 500 pounds may be fired into
Q regiment Of men, but a dynamite
musket ball would be used by no self.
respecting nation.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-04-14

Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys.
TEN effectually, dispels colds, head.
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro.
duced, pleasing to the taste and &C.
cceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in so
cent bottles by all leading drug.
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro.
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Donot accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP co!
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
LOUISVILLE. M. REW N0Rk, M
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-04-14
The DREADED CONSUMPTION
I. A. Slocum, M. O., the Great Chemist and
Scientist, VIII Send Free, TO the Afflicted
Three Bottles OF His Newly Discovered
Remedies TO Cure Consumption
and All Lung Truubles

Nothing could be fairer, more philanthropIc
or carry more Joy TO the afflicted, than the
offer OF t. A. slocum, NJ. c., OF lS3 Pearl
street, New York City.
Confident that he has discovered an abso-
Lutte cure for consumption and all pulmonary
complaints, and TO make It's great merits
known. he will send, free. three bottles OF
medicine, TO any reader Of the VOICE who IA
suffering from chest, bronchial, throat and
lung troubles or consumption.
Already this new scientific course OF med
icine" has permanently cured thousands OF
apparently hopeless cases.
The doctor considers IL his religious duty
duty which he owes 10 humanlty-to donate
his infallible cure.
Offered freely, is enough to commend II,
and more so Is the perfect confidence Of the
great chemist making the proposition.
He has proved the dreaded consumption To
be a durable disease beyond any doubt.
There will be no mistake In sending-the
mistake viii be In overlooking the generous
invitation. He has on hle in his American
and European Laboratories testiu. onials OF ex.
perience from those cured, in all parts OF the
world.
Don't delay until IL Is too late. Address T.
A. SlOcum, NJ. c., ~ Pine street, New York
and when writing the doctor, please give ex-
press and postoffice address, and mention
reading this article In the Peoples VOICE
Wellington. Kansas.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-04-14
FRAUD HAD FULL SWAY.
Proof Of the Morrill, Admins.
fration's Brazen Jobbery.
RECORD ONE OF CORRUPTION.
People Robbed by Giving Fat
Contracts TO FavOrites-The
PrOOfa Matter of Record.
Special to the Kansas City Times,

Topeka, Kan, March 22.-Oficial
crookedness from the very moment
the administration of Governor Nor
rill took possession Of the Kansas
state capitol, in 1895, until it was
kicked out by an indignant people,
on January IL, 1897, is the substance
of the report made today by the
committee appointed by the ex.
ecutive council to investigate state
house frauds during the two years OF
he last Republican administration.
The report is not exaggerated in
the least. 1t contains positive slate
ments, embracing nineteen specific
charges of what the committee claim
to be the most disgraceful acts Of
corruption and jobbery in the his
tory of the state.
Those who have compiled the
charges are fortified in their allega
tons by vouchers, affidavits, official
documents and photographs, and
challenge a denial of any averment
they make. They not only challenge
denial, but they court it, in order
to have the opportunity to furnish
the proof of what they charge to the
people of Kansas.
The investigation and report are
not made or intended for political
effect, but to arouse the conscience
of the people of the state, that they
may in the future watch their public
servants with a stricter eye to honest
business methods.
In calling the public's attention to
the failure Of the Morrill, administra.
ton to conduct the business of the
state honestly or economically, the
people are also invited to examine
the record of the present admins
tration along the same lines with
equal scrutiny.
BEGAN ITS FIRST DAY IN OFFICE.
When the Morrill, administration
went into Office, according to the
first charge, its first act was to pass
a bill doing away with the board Of
public works. While this bill was
passed through a Populist senate,
nevertheless it was engineered by
some far-seeing Republicans, who
persuaded the Populists to vote fol
it under the guise Of economy. The
abolition Of the board of public
works meant the abolition of the
necessity for advertising for bids fol-
contracts, and left the way open fol
the executive council 10 give con,
tracts 10 It's faV0rlteS at whatever
prices it pleased. In other words
the only safeguard against jobbery
was broken down. Sam Gardenshir,
OF Shawnee county, who was elected
to the lower house through the in
fluence of Billy Sterne, CA. Fellow
and other spectators on state hous,
contracts, introduced a bill in III,
house making an appropriation O.
one-half Of mill lew on the prop
erty of the state house to complet,
the state house. This bill wa.
amended afterward, and an immedi
ate appropriation Of $4,000 added
to it. This was how the foundation
was laid for the carnival of iobber,
that followed, and continued 10 I'll
the very hour the administration wen
Out of Office.
| The first actual illegal raid upor
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-04-14

hurriedly, saying that he couldn't do
good job, but the executive
council insisted on having the work
done before it went out of office.
The company drew $4,000 on the
contract fifteen days after it was let,
and had all the money, and $Is.49
extra, drawn nearly fifteen DAYS be.
fore the work was done. These
sidewalks now look as though a
locomotive and forty freight cars
had been run over them. The work
was done in the winter and fires
built to dry the cement. This was
due to the anxiety of the business
administration" to have the work
completed and the contractor paid
before going out of Office.
LESSER FRAUDS INNUMERABLE.
A contract to build a coal and
ash pit was let to Cuthbert & Sargent
for $3.50. The records show that
they were paid sl,675 for the work,
and did such a poor job that water
no to mans boot tops stands con,
tinually in the rainy season.
On April ~, 1895, the executive
council let a contract to Samuel
Dolman for grading the grounds at
sl,S26. He was paid in full, but
the records show that the executive
council also paid s569.lO to the men
he had employed, although the
labor was part Of the contract.
Even in This contract s36 was
allowed for extras" although it is
not clear what extras would be re-
CURED in grading with common dirt.
On August 10, 1895, the executive
council asked for bids for furnishing
the state house with electric wires.
Three bids were opened, and that of
Arthur Lee Of Topeka, for S4.5O6,
was the lowest. All bids were re.
Jected, and a month afterward a
member of the business administra
ton went down to Kansas CITY and
made arrangements with w. T.
Osborne & Co., to wire the building
foa $4,000. Vouchers amounting to
$4,000 were drawn and paid for this
work, which was S9,46O in excess of
the contract, or 81 ,454 more than a
Kansas man, employing Kansas
labor, offered to do it for.
In March, 1897, Cuthbeit & Sar.
gent did job Of cementing worth
S577.5O, for which they were paid
Sl.OS5.
James Foley of Leavenworth
submitted bid to put in and set up
a boiler for $3.50. The bid was re-
jected and the executive council
purchased the same boiler for Sl,O1O.
and after being set the present ad.
ministration had to pay money for
resetting it.
1t would be impracticable TO give
anything like complete list of the
charges brought against the So
called business administration"
Those enumerated are only chance
samples of the doings of the Morrill,
administration while in Office.
Every day of its two years of official
life had its record, and it is a rec
ord of shady and suspicious and
positively corrupt transactions.
1t will be a matter for regret if the
gentlemen who composed the
Morrill, administration do not
challenge the correctness of the
charges made by the committee 80
that the proofs may be submitted to
detail and the public thoroughly
convinced of their truth.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-04-14
SEVENTH CONGRESSIONAL Dis
TRICT CONVENTION.

A convention Of the Peoples party of the
Seventh congressional district is hereby
called to meet at Hutchinson, Kansas, on
Thursday May 18th at ten O'clock a. IN. for
the purpose Of nominating a candidate for
congress. The basis Of representation in
said convention shall be two delegates at
large for each county in the district and one
delegate for every 200 votes or major fraction
thereof cast for the Hon. Jerry Simpson for
congress in 1896, no county to have less than
three delegates.
Under this apportionment the counties are
entitled to delegates as follows.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-04-14

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
LOUISVILLE. Ky. KsW YoRk NJ
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-04-14

Register of Deeds W. NJ. Jackson il
not in love with the law requiring
him to file a quarterly report with
the county commissioners showing
the business done in his office for the
preceding quarter. His report Monday
morning Was fifty feet long when un'
rolled, extending from the north wall
OF the commissioners room to the
south wall of the county clerks office
The report showed S922.05 worth OF
business transacted during the quar-.
ter Just ended.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-04-14

1t is recommended that the county conven-
tons TO elect said delegates be held not later
than saturday, May 14th and also that the
names Of delegates chosen be forwarded to
the secretary Of the committee at Hutchinson.
By order of the Seventh district congress
siona committee meeting held at Hutchin-
son, March 10. 1898.
W. j. BRANDON, chatham.
q. s. FOSTER, Secretary.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-04-14

The township assessors are begin
ming to bring in their returns. Be.
sides Creek township, the returns OF
Greene, Osborne, Falls, London and
Ryan have been received.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-04-14

Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. Richardson went
OUT to c. c. RObinsOn's farm near May.
field Friday morning to spend the day
visiting Mrs. Robinson, who is quite
sick.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-02
PATRIOTIC HEBREWS.

Baron de Hirsch Society VIII Pro-
vide for Families of Its Enlisted
Members.
The Baron de Hirsch Library Associa-
ton, composed of about seventy-fve He
brews. met at their hall, at West Broad
and Margaret streets, yesterday. and elect
ed the following officers:
President-J. stark.
Secretary--J. Weiner.
Treasurer-S. X. Friedman.
Directors-L. Richardson, ]. Rice and Nj
Domnitz.
Several members of this association de-
sire to go with the United States invading
army to Cuba, but were unable TO do so
on account of leaving their families help
less. A resolution was passed to the eff
feet that any wishing to so can do so with
the assurance that their families win re-
ceive funds TO support them from the as
ISOLATION while the members are away.
Two Of the members contemplated going
and it is said they will now do so.
The II. L. II. Society. another Hebrew
association, which meets Friday in the
Odd Fellows building. will probably pass
a like resolution. This association has 125
members,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-02
nURRYING TROOPS TAMPAwARD.
Nine Carloads Passed Through sa-
vannah This Morning.


A train load of troops passed through
Savannah at o'clock this morning bound
for Tampa. Nine cars comprised the train'
which ran over the Florida Central and
Peninsular Railroad.
The officials OF the road have not learn
ed what troops were aboard, but they I'M
derstood that it was a body of Cubans. If
this is true, It win indicate that the Gu
bans in this country are going to make an
additional effort, in conjunction with the
Americans, to drive the Spanish out of the
island.
-Four train loads of troops arrived at
Tampa early yesterday morning over the
Florida Central and Peninsular There
were about 1000 men aboard the four
trains, all of whom went from Mobile and
New Orleans, having been received by
the Florida Central and Peninsular from
the Louisville and Nashville at River
Junction An additional movement of two
trains of troops from Mobile routed the
same way. reached Tampa last night.
The road also hand ed two train loads
from Chickamagua yesterday afternoon
from Everett, where they were turned
over by the Southern
Coal is being hauled rapidly to Tampa.
The Plant System was notified yesterday
of the arrival OF train after train heavily
loaded at Montgomery, where they We're
turned over to 1t for further movement.
great deal of coal is being gathered at
Port Tampa from the Birmingham dis
trict for the vessels that leave with the
troops for Cuba and their armed protec-
tors
Orders have been received by the rail-
roads to concentrate all citrs that can pos
sibly be spared for the transportation OF
troops at Chickamauga. Tt tese orders came
from the office of the quar- .ea master of the
department at Atlanta last might. In pur-
suance of them, the roads will at once send
their coaches to Chattan ooga. The or
ders state that a heavy movement will
begin tomorrow All the lines interested
in the business furnish their share or
coaches. Hauling so many men is guile a
strain on the roads, but they have thus
far borne 1t weA, having af no time had
10 resort to box cars for the use of the
men. There are now a great many coaches
already at Tampa and Port Tampa. where
the train loads of troops have just arrived.
Getting up others will give the roads a
chance to show the extent of their rolling
stock.
The railroads have received notice that
a similar movement Of troops from New
Orleans and Mobile 10 that made two days
ago to Port Tampa will be inaugurated in
a day or two. This means that some ten
trains of troops will be hauled from the
two places.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-02
WILL DE BEYOND DANGER LINE.
City's Powder Mngazines to BE LO-
Gated ON ogeechee Road.

City's Powder Magazines to BE LO-
Gated on ogeechee Road.
Plans for the new powder magazine,
which the city intends building at an early
day, are being prepared by architects Each-
berg and Witcover. A plan was prepared
al the request of Alderman Smith by City
Engineer VIM, but as the cost of the
building according to it was something like
$1,000, the architects now having the plans
in hand have been directed to hold the COST
inside Of $1,000.
The land on which the new magazine
is to be erected has already been purchas-
ed 1t is located about four and one half
miles, out on the Ogeechee road. 1t was
purchased from Mr.. Jacob Cohen, and is
Joined by lands owned by Mr.. ]. z. Will
Jams and Mr.. H. p Smart There are
twenty-n.ne acres in the tract, well located
for the purpose for which 1t is to be used
The danger Of the present magazine to
the cty's water works, as we'll as other
PROPERTY surrounding 1t. becomes more
imminent every day. The attention of
members of Council is being called to 1t
because the magazine, being within the
city limits renders the possibility of gen.
eral destruction in the event of an explo-
sion beyond question. The large amount
OF powder alone stored IN The magazine,
to say nothing of the dynamite, Is enough
to play havoc in the city. There is quite
a difference between the two explosives
however, IN the way their force is spent
With powder the entire energy is spent
where there is least resistance, while IN
the case of dynamite the whole force OF
the explosion goes where there is great
est resistance. AT the magazine, of course,
the force of dynamite would be in the
ground.
The question Of hurrying along the work
on the magazine has been seriously con-
sdered several times by members of
Council, but for some reason no decisive
action has been taken toward putting UP
the building
Dispatches to the Morning News report
powder magazines being blown up in dr.
ferent sections of the country, supposed
by some 10 be by Spanish cohusion. There
are members Of Council who do not like
The idea of having immense quantities of
powder and dynamite, enough to shake the
city off its pins, stored inside the limits
They intend to push the matter vigorously
when the plans for the magazine are com
pleted.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-02
CROWDS READ TIEEe BULLETINS.
News of the First Naval Victory Re-
ceived with Enthnsiasm.

ceiyed With Enthusiasm.
The news of the engagement between the
American and Spanish flee is in Manila
harbor yesterday aroused great interest
and excitement here last night. Little
else was talked in the hotels, clubs and on
the streets and for several hours the
Morning News telephones were kept hot
with inquiries for news of the conflict.
Until midnight the crowds hing around
the Morning News bulletin boards and
eagerly read every line of news.
The Morning News posted bulletins all
day. There was little of startling interest
during the day, however. Rumors and
reports of an attack by the American fleet
upon the Notifications at Manila were re-
ceived but little import ance was at
tached to them as they seemed to be
largely guesswork. Consequently the
crowds thinned out about supper time.
About s O'Clock the Morning News began
receiving dispatches giving information
of q severe engagement at Manila The
most authentic information came from
Spanish sources, but as these all conceded
that the advantage was with the Ameri-
cans they were fully as intere sting as IL
they had been received from American
sources.
All the bulletins were posted and a thrill
of interest was at once arc used The
crowds rapidly increased the news
spread through the city, and by 10 o'clock
there were hundreds of people gathered in
front of the bulletin boards. Each sue
ceeding bulletin showed more clearly an
American victory, and the enthusiasm in
creased accordingly. There was hearty
cheer when a bulletin was finally posted
stating that the result showed an Ameri-
can victory. Bulletins were posted up 10
1880 o'clock, but many continued TO haunt
the bulletin boards until after midnight.
At o'clock the boards had not been en-
tire1y deserted, and few stragglers~ were
still scanning the bulletins.
Bulletins win be posted as usual by the
Morning News to-day, and the effort will
be made to give prompt notification of all
occurrences of interest in connection with
the war reported after the hour of going
| to press.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-02
ODD FELLOWS TO ENTERTAIN.
Preparations for Meeting of the
Grand Lodge.


Elaborate preparations are being made
by the Savannah odd Fellows to entertain
The Georgia lodges which will be in Savan-
nah May "A, to attend the meeting of the
grand lodge.
The grand lodge session is expected TO DO
one of the largest in the history of odd
Fellowship.
The committee on entertainment will
hold meeting tonight, at which all sub
committees appointed to arrange various
details Of the programme, will submit their
reports. There will probably be another
meeting of the committee before the minor
matters Of the programme are decided up
on. The entertainment viii be complete,
however, and fully up to anything yet at
tempted by the Odd Fellows.
BY traffic arrangements with the rail-
roads, only one fare viii be charged to
and from Savannah during the session of
the grand lodge. The roads could wen af-
ford to do this, because of the number of
people that will travej on account of the
reduced rate. There are six lodges at At
lanta, three at Columbus, two al Bruins
wick and about fourteen in Gwinnett coun-
ty. Most of these, as well as the others in
the state, will send large delegations.