People's voice., 1900-01-04

The people Of Hiawatha are greatly !
worked up over the conduct Of
"masheT" who recently struck town, |
and call has been issued for a mass
meeting to take place one night this |
week to devise ways and means OF
getting rid Of him, providing he
doesn't take warning and leave Of his |
own accord. The call for the meeting,
among other things, says: This !
viper, this cancer, this running and |
fostering sore on the face of Hiawatha |
society, ought to be tarred aud feath.
cred and rode out of the city on a |
rail and given 4 few hours in which
to shake the dust of Brown county
from his gripSack and get home to bis
wife and babies. Such monsters are
a blight, curse and disgrace TO any
Community afflicted with their pres.
ence, and this fellows rotten carcass
ought to be lifted on the toe o. a good
sized boot aud waited On the business
end Of wet elm club to a more con-
genial cline. 1t will purify the air of
our city aud allow our women to pass
up the street unembarrassed by the
lecherous glances Of the wOuld.be
masher."
The football game between the We'll
lington and Arkansas City teams
at Winfield Monday afternoon, re-
suited in victory for the Arkansas
City eleven, the score being l6 to 6.
One hundred and twelve Wellington
people went over on the special at
1890 pm, returning at 6 o'clock.
About three hundred Arkansas CITY
people witnessed the game, which was
the biggest affair in football circles in
southern Kansas this season. The
Wellington boys COhcede that the
Arkansas City fellows outplayed
them. The game was a red hot one
from start to finish, and only three
or four fights occurred, though free
fOr-all was confidently expected. The
special train from Wellington was the
first one ever run out Of here for
similar purpose. 1t was secured by
the united efforts Of ClauG Stevens,
Ora Graft, Dr. D. P. Wetzel and Arch !
R0up.
The Omaha exposition has been de-
clared a bankrupt Almost three
million persons are receiving famine
relief in India. The English govern
ment is spending nearly $4,000 daily, |
aud 1t is estimated that The cost of |
the relief to the end OF March will be
nearly 81 millions. The English |
government has sent a ship to the
United States and the packers of Kan
sss City, Chicago, Omaha and Nil
waukee will load it with 100000 |
pounds of canned meats for use 10
South Africa.
Pray & Thomas commenced put
ting up ice on the Miliigan farm north |
Of the county asylum. "Wednesday The
ice there is about I inches thick. The |
ice on the Milligan farm is always four
or five inches thicker than anywhere
else on the creek, owing to the fact |
that the water there is always still
aud protected from the sun and wind.
Last night as the passenger engine
was being backed over the cutoff
going to the roundhouse, the switch.
man pulled a drunken man from the
track just in time TO prevent him
being run over. The man was
stranger.
]. A.Frambers and family were over
from Oxford to take New Years
dinner at the home OF L. Fl. Frambers
OF this city. Mr.. and Mrs. D. o.
Frambers, living north Of the city, are
also guests at the Frambers home
John Millard came up from Enid, o.
T., Saturday evening. He does not
know whether he will return, but ex-
poets to know this week. John has
been helping his brother In the post
Office at Eoid. y