People's voice., 1900-01-25
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The special committee to investigate
the case of Representative Roberts OF
Utah Monday arranged the program
for the consideration of the case 10
the house. 1t will be called up
immediately after the reading of the
Journal, Mr., Taylor Of Ohio, chair.
man of the committee, will open the
debate in favor Ct the majority reso
luton to exclude and will be followed
Oy Mr. Littlefeld Of Maine, who will
present the argument in favor of
seating and then eypelling Mr.. Rob
erts. Mr.. Roberts will then be given
an opportunity to address the House.
The vote will be taken at half past 1
O'Clock Thursday.
At Ottawa on Friday, Deputy SheT.
if Church saw a drummer who rep.
reSents one Of the Kansas City pack.
ing houses pressing his attention up.
on a couple Of girls vino were trying
to escape him. Walking up to the
masher the deputy sheriff said: 81
won't make a police court case of this
for the sake Of the girls, but III teach
you TO behave ia the future, at least
in Ottawa" Whereupou he smashed
the masher in the face a few times
and delivered the same punishment
to one OF the masher's companions
who sought to Interfere.
The body Of John Ruskin, in accord.
ance with a wish expressed years ago,
will be buried in ConistOn church.
The funeral will take place on Feb
ruary Brentwood, Ruskin's home,
was just across the lake-Coniston
water-a mile from COnistOn. The
town is little village not far from
the Scottish border, near the west
coast of England. Almost due west
of it is the Isle o. Man.
1t is rumored among the local rail-
road men, says the Hutchinson News,
that four local freight crews now
running o2t of Hutchinson, on the
H. & s., will be moved to Great Bend
the first of next month. The reason
assigned for this is that the present
runs are too long. The CTews affected
are those Of trains Nos. n and y, and
l3 and a. One run extends from
Hutchinson to EnpOria east, the other
from Hutchinson to Dodge City west.
The New York World is authority
for the statement that Kitchener has
been given the authority 10 hang for
treason. As ali of the Dutch Of the
Orange Free State, Of Natal and of
Cape Colony are held to be in a sense
subjects OF Great Britain, they be
come traitors when caught helping
their Boer brethren, and under Kfteh-
euer's power can be executed when
taken prisoners.
A dispatch from Blackwell, OF, ,
says: Exaggerated reports OF small
pox here have caused Mayor Tate and
the Blackwell health board to send
out this affidavit: We protest against
the infamous quarantine of the Kan
sas health board against Kay county
and Blackwell when every town in
southern Kansas has the same disease.
Smallpox exists in Belle Plaine,
Conway Springs, Mulvane, Caldwell
aud Rome. There are rumOrs OF the
disease existing in many other towns
in the county, but it is not known
whether the reports are true.
"ChicagO is talking of abolishing
board sidewalks" facetiOusly remarks
the Kansas City Journal. ut is a
good idea. Emporia, Kas., abolished
them twelve years ago, aud has never
it,"
The pauper statistics Of Kansas
show that 60 per cent of the paupers
are American born, and 40 per cent
foreign. The report also shows that
Of l56 paupers, only two were intem.
perate,
It is hoped that the Wellington
Judge will establish a precedent by
granting a divorce TO the Caldwell
woman who charges that her husband
is loafer.-K. c. Star,
Arkansas City is fighting the state
board Of health order to quarantine
a yaiust Oklahoma, and had refused