People's voice., 1900-12-20

l. Lawrence Norld announces
that rx-GOVernOr Leeuy i, preparing
t. iunc with his family TO Oregon
fUi permanent resid nee.
Saltwater, OF, will drill hole
1000 feet deep in scare Of gas. Wei
lug on nas a hole 1000 feet deep,
Cased and sealed, ami Can be reOpened
any time.
ST.. Louis has hold Of the rumor
that the Tonkawa line Of the Santa
Fe is TO be built tO Guthrie to shorten
the through route, aud that the shops
at Arkansas City will be msved tO
GutUfe,
T.o politicians say that the new
supreme court judges will be j. G. Pol
lOcA ol Winfield; A. A. Ellis Of Mitch.
ell cuuuCy; E. W. Cunningham Of
Emporia, and Judge Whiteside Of
Hutchinson.
Toe santa Fe telegraph department
will shortly begin work on the strlDg-
Ing Of copper wire from Albuquer-
Que, n. NJ, to Los Angeles, Cal. An
Other copper wire circuit will be
strung between Topeka and Kansas
CITY.
A company has been chartered to
bmd a railroad from Santa Fe, NM,
to Albuquerque. This will complete
the Rock Islands link tg connect the
road with the Southern Pacific, and
it is said the Rock Island is behiud
the scheme. The Rock Island is max.
ing Il warm for the Santa Fe in the
southwest, and the Santa Fe cannot
delay the construction Of the ANA
rillo.AlOuQueeque cutoff much
longer.
Here is a couple Of t ries the boys
tell: A boy went to Sunday school,
and was given nickel to put In the
collection. On his return, he still
had tHe money, and was asked why
he did not give it up. He replied
that he had no chance; that the organ
played, but that the monkey did not
come out. "A rabbit bad been
dressed by the cook, and the hide
thrown away. A three year old found
it, and took it to the house, saying a
rabbit had lost its union suit.
The faker who sells a thing for a
dollar and gives the purchaser a pres.
eat Of two dollars, played to crowd
Of several hundred people at Wash
ingtOn and Harvey avenues yesterday
afternoon. His bait to the first few
purchasers was so enticing that there
was great rush Of people t. buy his
81 and SO articles. A few fish took in
two and three hooks at nee, under
the impression that their money
would he returned to them in multi
pie. The faker made more money in
thirty minutes than any man In the
crowd earns in three months. There
seems to be good reason for the pas
sage Of the bill in the coming leg
islature to prohibit takers from oper.
atingi in Kansas. People who haven't
any more sense than to be taken in
by this kind Of swindle, must be pro.
tected.
When the Rock Island begins build.
ng its big cutoff to the southwest
from Liberal, Kan, to Ell PaSo, Tex,
this month it means that within a
few months the Rock Island will be-
gin laying steel rails from Fairbury,
Neb,, to HeringtOD, Kan. 1t is part
Of the same general plan to get the
shortest line yet built from all parts
Of the Rock Island system to Los
Angeles and to all parts of Mexico.
FdlEbury is at the northern Obtuse
angle Of big diamond formed by the
Rock Island system. This cutoff
will be built diagOnally across to the
southwest, crossing the southwest
side Of the diamond at Clay Center,
and will continue southwark to Her
ington, where is now the junction Of
the Liberal extension with the
line through Wellington. This means
the building OF about ten miles of
new track, and will result in a dlrecl
saving OF over 50 miles more from,
Omaha, not only to the southwest
and 10 Los Angeles or Mexico, buI
also TO Fort Worth and the whClt
Oklahoma country.
Wellington is being flooded with
catalogues from Kansas City, St.
Louis and Chicago department stores.
As people become more acquainted
with this catalogue business, they are
more than ever convinced that the
cheapest place to buy is at home. A
woman receiving a catalogue from a
Kansas City house is naturally inclin-
ed to believe the things offered are
cheaper than they can be bought of
Wellington merchants, but a little
Investigation will dispel this idea.
The big retail houses offer nothing
cheaper than home mel chants sell for,
Compare the prices in your catalogue
with the prices offered by Wellington
merchants, and you will find that
they do not vary but very few cents
either way: often the prices made by
Wellington merchants will be found
to be cheaper. By adding the cost of
express, freight or postage the Kansas
City and Chicago prices will in every
instance prove to be higher than the
prices offered by home mer.
chants. 1t is a well known
fact that the steel range agents
sell stove for $50 that can be
bought Of any home merchant for
that price, and often for less money
The latest way Of bucking the steel
range agents is to advertise the same
stoves for less money. When the
steel range peddlers invade county,
the local hardware merchants knock
them out by advertising prices. The
big retail houses are managed by very
shreWd men: they know the value OF
advertising prices. The way toknock
out the big retail houses (which can