People's voice., 1900-06-28

mluule reIguSOu vi We!IluRlUu, VIII
sing solo in St. Johns Episcopal
church today. Mrs. Owens is sweet
singer and there is no doubt, even in
highly cultured Wichita, that her
solo will be appreciated. Sunday:
Eagle.
Judge William G. Ewing of Chicago,
member of the international Board ol
Lectureship of the Mother church in
Boston, will deliver a free lecture on
Christian Science, or the Religion OF
Jesus Christ, at the auditorium, Friday,
July 9th, at $50 pm. You are cordially
invited to come OUT and hear this lecture.
The Wellington poStotfice received
20 mutilated letters Monday which
were in a recent wreck near the Colo
radO New Mexico line. Tie letters
were from California, Colorado, Idaho
and Oregon. Some Of the letters were
so badly mutilated that some d fficulty
was experienced in making out the
addresses.
A member OF the Jubilee committee
told the VOICE Saturday that tile
committee had accepted a button
design offered b. W. II. Lawbaugh.
This has gotten The committee into a
fierce quarrel with c. f. Bates, who
claims that he designed the button,
and that it embldies the jIint ideas
If himself ana NJ. Bird Pile.
Fred WannenwetSch, city marshal
OF Caldwell, was in the city Tuesday
on his way home from Winfield,
where he had been TO see the man
ZerioOse, who is under arrest for the
killing of Operator Coates. Mr.. Wan
nenwetSCh went TO Winfield to see if
was ZOrfOose anyone whom he knew.
He says he never saw the man before.
Western Oklahoma will see some
lively railroad building in the next
few months. During the past week
four separate engineering corps have
been running lines through Woods
county, one surveying for the Choc-
taw extension northwest, one for a
Rock Island extension west from
KingtSber, one for Stillwell's Kansas
City & Orient road, and the fourth
running a mysterious north and south
line, which is believed to be a MIS-
souri, plan to reach the Wichita
mountains with their rich mineral
resources.
VIM. +. Skies informs us that it will
probably be the 18th OF July before
the new telephone system is in opera
tiOD. The system is going To be so
much larger than Mr.. Skies at first
figured upon, that it will be imDossi-
bic to get everything in readLeSS for
opening the exchange before the 18th.
The central office will be over Rem &
Newbold's office, in the east rooms iu-
stead Of the west rooms. Geo. Flem-
ing, who occupies the east rooms at
present will move to his residence
property on South G street July |.
As the harvest progresses from Ok.
lahOma and Southern Kansas north.
ward, 1t becomes more and more eyl
dent that the great bread crop, winch
is one Of the most important factors
in the welfare and condition OF the
United States, will be very uneven.
1t will vary from altogether remark
able and unprecedented abundance in
Oklahoma and Kansas to one OF the
worst harvestS ever known in states
like Ohio ani Michigan. aud the
spring wheat harvest iu the north.
west will be almost total failure.
Topeka Mail and Breeze: They are
harvesting wheat down in Sumner
county, and conservative estimates
put the yield at six million bushels.
Think OF single county raising six
million bushels of wheat And the
beauty OF the situation is that the
price Of wheat is still a climbing
September wheat is close to 90 cents
and still going. Sumner county has
In round numbers 25,GOO people, Six
million bushels Of wheat at eighty
cents per buShel will mean that the
wheat crop alcne will amount tt
nearly $500 pee capita.
Conway Springs Star: II we hat
the wheat that has been wasted by
cutting with headers in Sumner
county this week we would have more
wheat than any one farmer In the
county. I'VE move that Reed of the
Oxford Register be barred from the
Wellington Jubilee and wheat carni-
val September Is %. A fellow built
as he is ha, no business there without
clothes, unless he can be Gagged anG
kept'in room for linen only. j.
f. GOOch was at Wellington Tuesday
Strengthening out the title to another
quarter Of land which he purchased
last week-the Funk farm, two mile:
south of town. He gets immediate
possession Of the farm. :. How would
you like to have the job of counting
the wheat shocks In Sumner county
or even one township, this year.