People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-02-03


one-haf block west OF the Arlington hotel
~ Telephone No. 81.
Issued weekly, in two sections-every
Tuesday and Friday.
Entered for Transmission by mail at second
class rates.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1899.
The First National bank of Russell,
Kan, has been placed in the hands OF
a receiver.
5. NJ. Fox Of Manhattan, has been
appointed adjutant general. Captain
CharleswOrth of Beloit, is to be his
assistant.
AS nearly as can be estimated by
the ways and means committee OF the
house it will require 81 ,759, $50 annual
ly to run the state government here
after. To raise this sum, a five mill
levy will be necessary.
The house Tuesday passed an
q appropriation bill to reimburse
generous citizens who donated money
to rebuild the electrical building Of
the Kansas university at Lawrence,
which was destroyed by fire a year
ago. Willis K. Folks of Wellington,
was one of the contributors to the
rebuilding fund.
In the last six months fortunes ag-
gregating $6l5, 693,59l have been made
in Wall street. The total increase
10 valuation Of all the bonds and
stocks listed on the Stock Exchange
aggregates that enormous sum. 1t
represents in money nearly three
times that of all the gold dug out Of
the earth for year.
The Topeka Journal is booming
Secretary COburn as the right man to
send to the Paris exhibition to dis
play the merits Of Kansas corn, the
beef steer and his sister. Coburn is
the best writer Of hurrah material
Kansas has ever had. The legislature
is likely to appropriate 800, 900 to make
a proper exhibit at Paris.
All road crossings on the line Of the
Santa Fe, which are considered dan
gerous to pedestrians and persons in
vehicles, will be equipped with electric
bells. Work on this class of improve
ment has already commenced. The
bells work automatically and are SIM
liar to those in operation at crossings
in the outskirts Of larger cities.
La6ette county is becoming involved
In a county seat War between Parsons
and Oswego and big delegation Of
Parsons citizens is in Topeka to start
the fight. Parsons claims that a
larger proportion of the county bust
Dess emanates 10 that city and insists
as a matter of right and justice, that
the county seat should be located
there.
The Congregational church people
at Park Ridge, n. j., are in a row.
When recent social" was advertis-
ed at the pastors house, a member
posted bills around town 10 this effect:
1.-THE gOssips of Park Ridge will hold
a reception at the home of an old
woman gossip, near the Congregations
al church tonight, and all the gOssips
are invited to be present."
The papers relate that much dam.
age has been done to the wheat crop
10 eastern states by recent cold snaps.
The ground was wet when the cold
set in, freezing the ground several
inches below the surface. The wheat
crop in Kansas has not been harmed
by cold weather. The ground is in
Just the right condition for the wheat
to withstand hard freezes.
The Rev. Myron Winslow Reed,
pastor of the Broadway Temple, Den.
yer, and at different times pastor of
the Olivet Congregational church of
Milwaukee, Wis, the First Presby.
terrain church Of Indianapolis, and
other churches in the east aud south,
died at st. Joseph's hospital 10 Denver
at 4:45 a. m. Monday, after a pro.
tracted illness due to a general break.
Ing down OF the system.
Governor Stanley Monday appoint
ed W. V. Church of Marion to be sup.
erintendent Of insurance; A. E. Nc
Kinzie of WyandOtte, to be grain in.
spector, and S. o. Spencer of Fort
Scott, to be coal oil inspector. The
appointment Of adjutant general was
not announced. 1t was quite gener.
ally believed that ]. q. Postlethwaite
OF Jewell county would be insurance
superintendent, but it is now definite.