People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-05-25
Tbs county commissioners have

HULA ldSb utoudy. Iue OluCidi Cdu-
vass gives Pond Creek, the present
county seat, 1881; Jefferson, 1,027,
and Medford, 2,0lS. MedfOrd thus
lacks $40 OF having a majority over all,
The commissioners have ordered a
second election July %.
Anegro cake walk at the Enid opera
house Thursday night broke up
in riot between whites and blacks,
STATED BY the negrOs shooting into a
hrOwd OF white men. Three white
men were wounded, when the whites
returned be fire, fatally wOHnding
four negrOs and slightly woundiLg
several others. More than fifty shots
were fired.
1t pays to raise strawberries and
small fruits for the market. The
farmer can rise them cheap and the
price he receives makes good addi-
tiOn to the family income. Farmers
are fixed to make all kinds Of small
fruits pay if they are within the reach
Of the market at all. Those who are
not can raise them to Consume while
the cattle and hogs are growing into
money. A few days ago we visited
W. B. Coldwell's OF Oxford strawberry
patch. He is a believer in mulchlRg
strawberries. He has fine bed OF
about three IfOurths Of an acle mulched
and doing fine. He put small
amount OF straw or hay over the
patch in the fall, between the rows
of the Strawberries which are about
three feet apart. In the spring he
mulches deeper and lets the straw
extend up to the rows, which from his
experience is very successful.
Frederick W. Snyder, late of the
First South Dakota regiment, has
just returned from the Philippines
and brings horrible tale Of the prac-
tice of the FiljpinOs to inOculate
American prisoners with the blood
taken from lepers. He says he knows
of two cases and thinks it likely that
there are Others. He says the blood
was drawn from the deceased men,
and the skin was opened in the arms
of the two soldiers and the diseased
blood injected into the Americans.
He also says the FilipinOs released 200
lepers from lazarettO and sent them
to Manila, hoping thus to inOculate
the American troops.
The ascent of Mount Morrison, the
highest mountain 10 FOrm0sa, has
been made by X. T. Stoephel, an
explorer Of note. On the mountain
near the summit, he discovered tribe
of human beings who had never seen
the face Of white man, and possibly,
had never seen a Chinaman. These
people were Of Zero :i0us aspect, ex-
tremely ugly, thin and entirely naked.
They were skull hunters evidently,
and existed on wild animals, AMI were
not averse to human flesh. Lower
down on the mountain he discovered
a wild race Of Malays, which seems to
have lntermingled with the Chinese
race.
W. D. Frantz received letter from
a friend at MedtOrd, o, T., Thurs
day, saying that MedfOrd won the
county seat election by 40 votes Ovel
Pond Creek and Jefferson. The fol-
lowing special to the Wichita Beacon
last night gives different version
Before midnight last night, follow
ing the county seat election, which
was decidedly in favor OF Pond Creek
desperate attempt to carry away the
county records was made. County
Clerk Reed and four other MedforC
sympathizers came to the back door
Of the court house with a team anC
wagon. They we're confronted by
guards and knocked down with Win
cdesters. Reed narrowly escaped
death. The men were afterward:
released and left without any further
disturbance"
wa. Thew of Conway Springs, wa,
In the city Saturday to attend the
birthday anniversary celebration Of hi.
mother, Mrs. NJ. S. Thew. Mr., Thew
is said By the politically wise ones t
be the man who controls all of tht
fourth class pOstOffice appointment
in this county, He was schoOlmatt
Of Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral ice Rrstow, and the two are vel
very warm friends. Thew is bust
ness man Ia druggist and takes NJ
active part in politics, but is a pOwel
In postoffice appointments. He name,
the Apprentices and lays low about il
while the notoriety loving loud
mouths get the credit,
The country newspapers are begin
ming to agitate the Fourth of July
nnestiun. How about a Fourth NJ