People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-11-02

Mrs, NJ. E. Richie has sold outlet
|, South addition to Caldwell, to tbe
hock Island Railway Co.
1t is rumored that that the Santa
fe has purchased the HOG road
which runs from Hutchinson, Ks, ta
Cross, OF. "
Governor Stanley and Congressman
Long are announced to speak in We'll
llngton next Saturday afternoon At
the opera house.
Prof. T. W. Butcher will deliver a
lecture before the state board of edu.
cation Christmas week on "Ths Duty
OF State in Maintaining High Schools
and Institutions
Judge John Pollock of Winfield is
In Washington for the purpose OF
being admitted before the supreme
court, OF which he has several cases
to argue.
Elmer Mickey was in town Friday
morning on his way from Kansas CITY
to his old home 10 Perth He is al
present employed by a Kansas CITY
Commission company.
Chas. Kellar has bought three va
cant lots on East Harvey avenue
which belonged to Ridgely Encamp-
ment No. Al, LO.O.F., OF yelling
ton. The price paid was $3.50.
Probate Judge Statfelbach has al
lowed bills against the estate of the
late Chas. ShOop as follows: DR.. W.
A. Noble, 500 for professional ser
vices; A. L. White, s56.25 for labor.
As a means of stopping the viola.
lions of the game law in Cowley
county, the Winfield Gun club has
offered a standing reward for evidence
that will lead TO the conviction OF
anyone violating the law.
Rev. S. Prices grandson, ]. e.
Chastai1e, has reached his home in
lola from the Philippines. He was a
member Of the Twentieth Kansas,
but was mustered out in Manila and
left for home before his regiment left.
Geo. R. LandOn, the "cattle king"
OF Harper county, has been sued for
$4,000. He is charged with fraud. |
A ST. Louis commission firm claims
to have loaned him sll2,0OOOn mort |
cages given on 1850 head of cattle. |
Only 1000 head of cattle can be found. |
At the Hereford show in Kansas
City Thursday, a man called for con- |
trlbutlons for the widow of the late |
Cross Of Emporia. For three !
minutes silver dollars fairly rained in |
the arena. When the money was
picked up it filled peck measure.
As the Chanute Tribune looks at il.
the young lady at Wellington, who |
stood good for suit at a tailor shop
for a brakeman and then had to nav |
for it herself, was in luck, as had the
brakeman squared the bill they might
have married and then she would have
his meanness too late: and
there is good deal Of sense in this
estimate OF the matter, toO.-Topeka
Capital.
Judge Mcbride overruled the mo-
tiOn for a new trial in the case of
Alice Barnett against the X. & L. OF
+. lodge, and rendered judgment for
the amount asked for, with interest
at s per cent. The defendant is given
20 days to make a case for the SUI.
preme court, and the execution has
been ordered stayed for ITO DAYS, pro-
Vided the defendant gives a bond
within twenty days in the sum Of
$1,000.
Prof. T. w. Butcher OF the County
High school, was IN town Monday.
He says the High school work is
progressing nicely, 10 fact, far beyond
MS expectations. In Mr.. Butchers
the success of the County
High school will have q decided In.
iuence In preparing the entire county
or township organization, such az 10
Meeting with 20 great SUCCESS In
Indiana and other Of the eastern
middle states,-South Haven New
Era.