People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-03-31


The Beacon pronounces the reported
big capture OF a gang Of counterfeit
ers, horse thieves, highway robbers
and murderers by theWichita police, a
huge fake. No one will question Dave
Leahy's competency to judge fake.
Samuel and John Collision OF Yer
million county, Illinois, and B. w.
Evers OF Indiana, were in the city
Monday the guests Of their relative.
c. F. Martin. They went to Oxford
that night, and will return to The east
10 few days.
County Superintendent W. NJ. Mas
sey has appointed A. g. Hutchinson
clerk OF School District No. al, to
succeed A. Chambers, resigned, and
Mrs. W. A. Crawford director OF Dis
trict No. 100, to succeed Mrs. Minnie
Burford, resigned.
We want a well posted competent
man in every county to handle our
malleable iron fence post, the cheap
est and best post for wire fencing sold.
Representatives must be men Of
financial responsibility. Address j.
L. Virgins, president Interstate Nal.
liable Iron and Machine Works, Du-
luth, Minnesota.
The Modern Woodmen lodge will
give banquet at their hall Friday
night. The expenses Of the banquet
will be borne by the members who
constituted the losing side of the lodge
10 the contest for applicants which
has been going on since last fall. The
winning side secured eleven applicants
and the losing side secured three.
The report has in some manner be.
come current that S. P. Kramer has
Withdrawn from the mayoralty con.
test. Mr.. Kramer was called up by
telephone Wednesday and asked if
there was anything in the report, and
he stated very emphatically that
there was not II am still a candi.
date" he said, land l want to be
elected, too"
Married, 10 the parlor of the Etna
hotel Wednesday afternoon at 2:3O,
Mr.. VIM. Clewell of Enid, OF, and
Miss Carrie Bishop of Belle PLANE,
Rev. j. W. Mclaughlin of this city,
officiating. The bride is a former
school teacher Of this county, and the
groom is prosperous farmer of Okla
homa. Charles Bishop, brsther of the
bride, and Miss Lizzie Kincaid drove
down from Belle PLANE with them
that morning,
Both the AtchisOn, Topeka & Santa
Fe and the Frisco railroad companies
have made propositions to the town
OF Blackwell to extend their lines to
that point, if the citizens offer sufi-
Client inducements. The Santa Fe
asks concessions to the amount of
$1,000, and the Frisco $4,000 At a
mass meeting of Blackwell citizens, it
was decided to take active steps to.
ward securing the roads by making
the concessions desired.
The Beacon says that there is a re-
port in Wichita to the effect that Bill
Edwards has been sentenced to the
pe0itentiary for four years from Meade
county for assaulting man with a
knife. Edwards is the man who killed
John Wilson of Caldwell, in a gamb.
ling room upstairs in the Press block
in Wellington in 1884. Edwards lived
in Wichita off and on for a long time
after leaving Wellington. He was
living in Wichita up till three or four
months ago.
The residence Of Mrs. Craft near
MillertOn burned last Thursday. But
little was saved out Of the house.
The smoke house was burned alsn,
aud she lost all her meat, fruit, lard,
etc. The fire caught from spark on
the roof. The loss was upwards of
1900, with a policy for $3.50 in the
Southern Kansas Mutual. A, c.
Lambe representing the insurance
company went up there yesterday and
adjusted the loss. He reports it to-
tai loss and will recommend payment
in full. The home company never
bubbles. 1t acquiring areputation
over foreign companies for prompt
settlements and fair dealing.
The Southern Kansas Mutual Hail
Insurance Association place their ad.
vertisement in the VOICE this week.
The company is incorporated and has
substantial citizens back Of it. They
did business last year as a sort of
partnership affair. Although en-
tirely experimental they wrote over
$500, 900 worth OF insurance aud paid
losses to the amount of 81, 700. at an
expense Of only thirty per cent to
members. This year it has passed