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People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-02-17
FIRST WARD.

FIRST WARD.
A. o. Holiday, IA and 7B. At
tendance, % and q.
Miss Nellie Palmer, 6B and ga. At
tendance, l6 and q.
Miss Amelia MOeser, 5B, "A and Alb.
Attendance, l6, II and II.
Miss Ethel Showalter, ga and BIB.
Attendance, Is and 26.
Miss Flora Fultz, "a and 2B. At.
tendance, 10 and %.
Miss Ella Havens, IA, IL and C.
Attendance, 20, 20 and II.
THIRD WARD.
Miss Edith Myers ga aud SB.
Attendance, "a and 81.
Miss Fannie WOrden, IA and ga.
Attendance, q and %.
Miss Jennie Rosecrans, eB and 5B.
Attendance, IA and q.
Miss Dora SummerVile, "A and AS.
Attendance, 80 and 10.
Miss Bertha Carr, Alb and ga. At.
tendance, q and %.
Miss Lou Bybee, BIB and "a. At
tendance, Is and II.
Miss Lee Burcham, 2B and Ia.
Attendasce, l3 and Is.
Miss Ida HOge, lB and e. Attend.
ance, 10 and l6.
FIFTH WARD.
Miss Lucinda Replogle, "A, ga, 3B,
"a, 2B, lib. Attendance, s, 8, 9, 4,
and 5.
There are cases Of measles ia forty
families in the city, which makes the
attendance in many of the grades
very light at present.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-02-17

Kansas lost nothing OF her reputa.
tion for mild winters by the late cold
spell. II Is zero on the Gulf Of Mexico
and business on the eastern coast
from New England to Florida is all
but suspended on account OF the cold.
The temperature in Kansas Tuesday
was Sc degrees.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-02-17


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People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-02-17

The secretary Of the Sud te hOrtiCu!'
Jural society says Kansas will have tC
send outside of the state this year for
peaches: the peach crop has been
killed. The apple crop is sid to be
al right, except the young trees.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-02-17

School report blanks for sale at this
ofiice-75c per 100; 45c for so, and less
quantities at lc each. Dainty cOlors
aud neatly printed. If
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-02-17
I'Hk ATCHIsON, TOPEKA 4 SANTA FE
RAILWAY COMPANY.

lHE ATCHIsON, TOPEKA 4 SANTA FB
RAILWAY C)MIANY.
ARRIVALS.
From north and east
NO w, Accommodation. $3.50 n
No, As, Accom-, daily ex, SuDday....1:2O p N
So. Kansas division
NO. 1DS, Express. ......................l0:3 NJ
No. 22l Freight, daily. 9:0 p m
From the west
NO. a4, Passenger. .............. .....5:.0p IL
No. 1872. Freight. daily ex. Monday. $40 m
en- N the south-Hunnewel braKch.
No. ES6 Accom-. daily ex. Sunday .....7:40 N
NCaldwell branch
o. 42S, Accommodation. ..............5:l5 N
DEPARTURES.
North and east
No 426, Accom-. daily ex. Sunday zee. .s:s5 n
NO. ~, Passenger. 49,; .....5:t0 p 10
Stock Express every Tuesday. ........ 1900 p M
southern Kansas division
No. 20i. Eastern Express. -...... 500 n
ORR. Accomm. Qeaye fri depot 6:10 u
West
No. 2OS. Passenger. ................l0: 40a
enc. 4sl, Freight, daily ex, Sunday. :. 600 N
South-Caldwell branch
No. AZ, Passenger....... ..........."l0:O0 n
Seuth-Hunnewell branch
No. AS, Accom-. daily ex. Sunday. ....7:O D n
Leaves freight depot.
u All trains run through without change
to Kansas City, Atchison and st. Joseph
making all eastern connections.
Reclining chair cars on all trains.
Tysin Nos. 22f, ~, 4gl and 400 arrive and
depart from the Freight depot.
Nsv.a. lop6 EPURDYs APsp|.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-02-17

The S&ntl Fe has issued IN order
for A lurn table to be pl'ced at
Augusta, tul5 Geing HE terminal Of
The hue fr, IN I!ulncwtil. The table
is 20 turn IN sixteen CaSs hardened
b .llS little larger than a walnut.
The ruad will also build coal chute
there.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-02-17

Some anxiety is felt on account OF
the liability OF disaster from snow
slides in the mountains, especially at
Silver Plume, where Sundays ava
laDche is liable to be followed by
another Of greater extent and possibly
more disastrous in It's results. A
slight thaw, a puff Of wind, a jar may
bring down millions OF tons of snow
that now hang upon the mountain
tops almost defying the laws of CRAWL
tatiOD. Barely 1.-THE of the burden
OF the mountains came away in the
avalanche Sunday. 1t left great
circular gaps, whose walls VI snow
rise vertically hundred feet in
height. But the first slide swept out
every obstacle and filed up the low
places so that when the rest comes il
will have a clean sweep right down
into the town itself. Many Uf the
Inhabitants have removed to George
town.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-02-17

A big cut has taken place in West.
ern Union rates from points west of
the Mississippi to Cuba and Porto
Rico, effective since February Is.
The rate per word to Havana is now
80 cents, instead OF 50 cents, as here
tofore. To Porto Rico, the rate is
COW 50 cents per word where it was
formerly Sl.27. The same cut is made
proportionateiy to other points on the
islands.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-02-17
Balance
STATE OF KANSAS, I o.,
COUNTY of SUMNER, 81

OOUNI1 VI GUNNER. \
A. J. McManis. President and Geo. ID. Arm
strong, Secretary. Of the Southern Kansas Mu-
tual Insurance company, being duly sworn,
dep0se and say, and each for himself says:
That they are the abOve-described officers of the
said company, and that on the thirly-lrst day of
December last all Of the fOregoing-described
assets we're the absolute property Of the said
company, free and clear from any and all claims
or liens thereon, except as hereinbefore stated;
and that the foregoing statements by them
subscribed are full and correct exhibit Of all
the liabilities and Of the income and expendi-
lures and of the general condition and affairs OF
said company on the said thirty-frst day Of
December last, and for the year ending on that
day, according TO the best of their information,
knowledge and belief. respectively
A. j. MCMANIS, President.
GEO. ID. ARMS fR0NG, Secretary.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this sd
day Of January, 1899. W. j. NEwBoLD.
lsEAL.l Notary Public.
My commission expires August 90 1900.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-02-17
RAILROAD TIME CARD,
CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC

-
GOING EAST.
No. Chicago Mail and Express. $3.50 m
No. 4. Chicago Fast Line ............9:22 D no
No. %. Accommodation Freight. .7:l5 10
GOING WEST.
No. I. Chicago Mail and express. E. ISL p M
No. 81. Accommodation freight. . $40 p IT
Nos. aud 8 run through 1T. Worth With.
outchange.
Nos. 3 and do not run Sundays.
Free reclining char cars on all passengers
TO Kansas City and st. Joe, where direct con-
nertion is made with all lines north. east
and south. No. 3 mas through sleeper for
San Antonio. Tickets sold and baggage
checked to all important points In the Uni
ted States and Canada.
May Q, 1893.
V. WILLIAMS. Agent
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-02-17

The east was connected with the
Pecos valley at 4 O'Clock Saturday,
tue last spike on the Pecos Valley &
Northeastern road being driven fifteen
miles east of Roswell. A large party
of railroad officials attended, among
whom were j. j. Hagerman, president
OF the road; ". A. Otis, Z. W. Otis
aud large delegation of prominent
people from Roswell. Mrs. j. ].
Hagerman drove the last spike Of geld
and W. A. Otis a silver spike. The
Roswell Commercial club rendered
Mr.. Hagerman'S partya reception at
night.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-02-17

A funny thing happened in the
probate judges Office Tuesday after
noon. A young man from Conway
Springs went In and asked for mar.
rage license. The prescribed -ques-
tions were asked and were sworn to by
the young man, and the license issued
He gave his name as Hurley King and
that OF the girl as Ollie Coulter, both
q years Of age and residents OF CON-
way Springs. The funny thing about
the issuance Of the license came out
Wednesday morning, whenJudge Stat.
felbach was called up by telephone
from Conway Springs and asked il the
party who secured the license had
given the name OF Hurley King as his
own and s~orn to it as such. lie was
Informed that such were the facts,
when 1t was explained from Conway
Springs that the fellow who had
secured the license was not Hurley
King, but friend OF Hurley King
who had been sent on the mission.
Judge Staffelbach was asked if the
license, under the circumstances, had
been regularly issued, and he express.
ed the opinion that the swearing
should be done oyer again by King
himself. King secured a team aud
drove to Wellington at once.
Upon his arrival here he explained
the peculiar transaction; which would
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-02-17
Class Schedule.

The following is the schedule of
classes for the second term of the city
schools, which began Monday, with
the actual attendance ia each
Class this morning:
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-02-17

The 10Th vas the first anniversary OF
the destruction Of the Maine.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-02-17
School report blanks
for sale at this office.

The five year old daughter of Rev.
and Mrs. L. H. Griggs (colored) died
last night from the effects Of an over
dose Of Fields anti.bilious worm
powders remember the name) given
to the child the previous evening
The medicine was administered about
1870 o'clock and the child was taken
violently i'll at IL o'clock. It's suffer-
ings were ended by death at $40
O'Clock last evening. Physicians were
summoned yesterday morning, but
were unable to relieve the little ones
,utferings, 1t was buried today. The
Griggs family lives at the corner OF
Third aud Blaine streets, having
moved there day or so ago.-Daily
Journal, Thursday.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-02-17
Orie Anderson in a Hospita

st. Louis, Feb. l3.-Orie F. Ander-
son, aged q, a victim of the morphine
and cocaine habit, was sent from East
st. Louis to the 81. Claire county
hospital by Supervisor of the Poor
Wheeler yesterday.
Anderson says he formerly lived in
Newton, Kan, where his father was
a merchant. His parents died when
he was quite young, he says, and left
him penniless. He drifted into Iowa
as railway news agent, where he
became afflicted with rheumatism
five years ago. His physician. pre-
scribed morphine and cocaine to re-
lieve the pains, and now Anderson
says he is satisfied with nothing less
than 20 grains Of morphine and 10 to
Is grains of cocaine daily. He was
arrested at the relay depot Friday
while in the act of selling his last
stitch of underwear to negro for a
25-cent stake" for more dope"
"Oh, l haven't the nerve to kill
myself, or l would have been dead
long ago." said Anderson, as he left
the police station for Bellevllle.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-02-17
VII,-EXPENDIi

ll,-EXPENDIll
Total paid for losses during
the year. ............S
Amount paid for salaries 10
officers and { irect0rs during
tie year: Secretary, 500;
directors, S3l ............ go.
Amount paid 10 agents. .....
All other expenditures during
the year: Unearned premi-
ums, sll 80; rent, s44; spe-
cial examiners, SCI; filing
annual statement, $40; pub
fishing same. IS; agents
license, 5000; stamps, SG3;
record books, 81; blanks,
$40; sundries, Sl.03 ........
Total expenditures during
the year. .................
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-02-17


The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
has place. an order with the Baldwin
Locomotive Works for 10 locomotives,
ten 10 wheelerS and five consolidation,
for delivery in July. The 10 wheel
engines will weigh in working order
about l45,00O pounds, and will have
cylinders 20 by 26 inches; wagon top
boiler, 90 inches in diameter at the
smallest ring, made for working
pressure Of 100 pounds; flrebox, lOz
inches long and IL inches wide; 264
tubes, 2 inches 10 diameter. The
consolidation locomotives will have
cylinders q by 2S inches; weight In
working order, $4,000 pounds;
straight boiler, 6S inches in diameter;
working pressure, lse pounds; frebox.
lO2 inches long, Alt inches wide; 23S
tubes, 2 inches In diameter.
Beneath a vineclad bower, while
nightlngales sang and fountain
puzzled, Randolph Guggenheimer,
pres dent Of the municipal council of
New York, gave dinner Friday night
at the WaldOrf-AstOria which, in dec
Grafton and appointments, surpassed
any function Of the kind ever given
in that city. 1t set the mark above
the Lackmeyer dinner Of 1873, which
has always been spoken OF as the most
costly feast ever served on Manhattan
Island. That banquet was known as
the "Swan dinner" because three OF
the sort of bird that rested upon
"Still Street Mary's Lake" floated
about a fountain surrounded by the
circular table. Friday nights diuner
was served to forty bejeweled guests
and cost Alderman GuggeDheimer
$4,000.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-02-17
III.-RESOURCES.

III.-KESUU KUES.
Total amount of premium or deposit
notes In lOrce December 81, lS9s. &c hsl o.
Amount of cash in cOmpanys prnci-
pal office December 81, 1SqS ........ 1 GOO 40
Amount Uf cash belonging TO the COM
pany deposited in banks December
81, 1898; Security State bank, $500:
one note Of sil5; one note d sloSO. sl5 90
fixtures and blanks SO; Premiums
Que from agents, $50 ............ 14Is
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-02-17

Amount OF lOper cent reserve
on outstanding premium
notes to December 81. .....S &c
Amount of reserve fund ON
hand in cash .............
Amount of invested reserve
fund Sc ,uritles, as follows:
Sil5 secured by first mort
gage on an S0-acre farm;
$1,000 secured by first mort
gage on a l60-acre farm;
$500 on time deposit In Sc
curity State bank. ........
The times., 1899-11-23
Mr.. LONGS REPORT.
More Fighting Ships for the Navy
VIII he Recommended.

hbhN AAa Atb- SHIPS 1oE INC NAN
VIII Bc Recommended.
The annual report of Secretary Long
viii recommend an increase in the NAVY
along the lines suggested by the Naval
Board on Construction. There win be some
slight changes regarding the tonnage of
the eighteen vessels for which appropria-
tions viii be asked
Three armored cruisers of about 1900
tons displacement each three protected
cruisers of about 5000 tons displacement
each, and twelve gunboats of about 500
+ons displacement each will be asked for
The statement that the Secretary will
offer this recommendation is made authori-
tatively.
The programme adopted by the Board on
Construction which served as the basis of
the Secretary's recommendations provided
for three armored cruisers of about $500
tons each three protected cruisers of about
5000 ions each, six gunbOats Of about 1000
tons each and six gunboats of about 500
tons each.
The only changes made by the Secretary
are in pairing down the tonnage OF the ar
mored cruisers and consolidating the gun
boats in one class. splitting the difference
Much doubt was expressed in naval cir
cles thar the department would decide to
recommend any armored ships. IT was
| generally believed that in view of the
fact that the department had to include
armOr clads in its suggestive programme
to the Board on Construction the boards
recommendation as TO armored vessels
would be rejected by Secretary Long.
The twelve gunboats are designed for
service in the Philippines. They were rec
commended by Admiral Dewey. They are to
be of light draft somewhat similar to the
Marietta and the Wheeling with better
speed. The department would prefer to
have vessels of even lighter draft than
these. but the seaworthiness Of such ships
was questioned.
The Navy Department has decided to
/ follow the recommendation of the majority
of the Naval Board on Construction, that
I the contracts for the building of the six
new cruisers be awarded on the de-
/ partment's plans The department has not
| determined, however, whether it Will fol-
/ low the recommendation Of the board that
/ the contracts be awarded to the six firms
named by the board
The times., 1899-11-23
TO ACCEPT THE DAHLGREN.
Reports That the Trial Trip Was a
Failure Denied.

Failure Denied.
Naval officials say that the statement
that the torpedo boat Dahlgren did not
meet the requirements of her contract on
her trial trip is erroneous The report Of
the Board Of Inspection says that the huh
and machinery were found 10 be strongly
and well built, and in accordance with
the requirements of the contract and speci-
fcations.
As to the failure of tbe Dahlgren to
run one hour over q measured course at
the average rate Of 30 IL knots, this did
not constitute a failure, as the Dahlgreu
was officially intended to be a 30-knot ship
and in the trial she developed a speed Of
30.0075 knots.
The original contract with the Bath Iron
Works. the builders of the boat provided
that the speed should be 30 knots. Later
on the Bath Iron Works, unsolicited. sug-
gested that a supplemental contract be
made in which the builders agreed to fur
nish a 30 1-2 knot vessel. If the Dahl
gren developed that speed the contractors
were TO receive S. 600 for the additional
half knot, or if that speed was not de-
yeioped they were to forfeit that amount
to the Government. This contract was
drawn and signed.
The fact that the Dablgren made 30
knots, the speed required by the depart
ment, ensures her acceptance. The Dahl
gren was built on French plans, and the
claim is made that if the special fuel used
on French torpedo boats had been used q
speed of 30 II knots would have been
secured
The report Of the Board Of Inspection on
the Dahlgren's trial. access to which was
had yesterday shows that she is splen-
didly built vessel remarkably free from
vibration, and well balanced
The times., 1899-11-23
CHARGES AGAINST AN OFFICER.
/ Serious Accusations Against General
Metcnlf to BE Inxestignted

Serious Accusations Against General
Metcnlf to BE Investigate
The War Department yesterday deter
mined 10 make an investigation of the
charges made by Lieutenant Hall. Of the
Twentieth Kansas Regiment and backed
by afidavits by Lieutenant Ferguson. OF
the Thirty-sixth Volunteer Infantry. form
erly Of the Twentieth Kansas. and Private
Husky Of the Kansas Regiment, that
Brigadier General Metcalf, who succeeded
Colonel Funston in command of that regi-
ment, and was brevetted a brigadier general
for gallantry, deliberately shot an unarm-
ed Filipino when the latter was on his
knees begging for mercy. A search Of the
War Department records is being made TO
ascertain if there is any official paper on
file regarding the charge. This is prelim-
mary to orders for a complete investiga-
tion. which will be conducted probably in
Kansas, where the men who made the
charges reside. General Metcalf is visiting
friends in Ohio.
The times., 1899-11-23
THE MAINE VICTIMS.
Bodies to BE DiSinterred and
Brought to Arlington Cemetery.

Bodies to BE DiSinterred and
Brought to Arlington Cemetery.
The Navy Department has issued orders
for the bodies of the enlisted men who lost
their lives on the battleship Maine when
she was destroyed in Havana Harbor
February 10, 1898. to be brought to this
country for interment. They will be buried
in Arlington Cemetery.
The orders for disinterTing the bodies
viii be sent to the commandant of the Ha-
vana naval station in few days The
bodies will be enclosed in zinc caskets and
shipped 10 Washington. Owing to quaran-
tine regulations the bodies can only be re-
moved between December 1 and February
/, and the Navy Department hopes to have
the remains reach Washington early in
January
The removal of the bodies was finally
determined upon because it was found that
the lease of this Government on the lot
where the bodies are buried is for only
FIVE years and at the end of that time the
bodies might be eXhumed and the bones
scattered
The battleship Texas, a sister ship of the
Maine, and now commanded by Capt.
Charles D. Sigsbee, who commanded the
Maine when she was destroyed, viii be as
| signed to bring the remains to this coun-
| try.
The times., 1899-11-23
COLONEL voLKMAR RETIRED.
He Entered the Service az n Sergeant
of Volunteers.


Col William J. Vokmar, Assistant Ad-
iutant General United States Army, has
been placed on the retired list on account
Of physical disability. At the time of his
retirement Colonel Volkmar was the Ad-
jutant General of the Department of the
Lakes with headquarters at Chicago.
He entered the military service as a SER
geant of the ThiTty-third Pennsylvania
Volunteer Infantry in 1863 was appoint
ed a cadet at the Military Academy in
1864, was commissioned as a second lieu
tenant in the Fifth Cavalry in 1868, was
transferred from the line IN 1885, when a
captain in that regiment to the Adjutant
Generals Department, with the rank OF
major, and attained the rank Of colonel
and assistant adjutant general in 1897.
He was born in Pennsylvania and appoint
| ed to the Military Academy from that
| State
The times., 1899-11-23
Arch for Washington

NEW YORK, Nov 22-Franklin c. Case,
Of 2O7 Broadway, is sending a letter to the
Governors Of the various States, the mayors
of the large cities, and other prominent
Americans asking the cooperation OF the
public in the raising OF $500, 600 for the
erection of a memorial arch in Washing;
ton 10 American patriotism. Mr. Case
SAYS that Representative SulzeT has prom
ised 10 introduce a bill in Congress by
which the Government viii appropriate
$500 600 as soon as an equal amount is
raised by popular subscription.
The times., 1899-11-23
ENTERPRISE OF SOLDIERS.
Americans in the Philippines Earn
ing Much Extra Money.


News Of the success of some enterprisiug
American negroes in the Philippines has
reached the War Department. Some mem
bers Of the band of the Twenty fourth In
fantry, one OF the four negro regiments OF
the regular service, took advantage Of their
musical ability and the fact that their reg
tment was assigned to provost guard duty
in the city OF Manila, to organize a min
strel company and give performance in a
Manila theatre. They chartered the play
house at a low rate and gave such good
performances that the experiment was a
success from the start. II is reported that
they are making about $500 a day.
According to information received by
Adjutant General Corbin, Manila is run
ming over with American money. High
prices are paid for every kind OF work to
Americans. Soldiers are making so tend
ing bar while off duty and some of them
who understand how to manipulate type
writer's are earning an average Of $25 q
day.