People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1900-05-17

ns " >Amemorale Their memorlai
"a! "a the third Sunday in June
W. H. Maddy's bid Of sl5l p for
The old cOuntY Jail, jiiler's residence,
stockade, Oulbu!idluIs. etc, was az
copied b. TIE commissioners yeSter-
day afternoon.
Ex-CommisSionar Joseph Gooch is
crowdag John T. Stewart as a land
owner. He bought another farm 10
Eden township today Of Sumner
WhitSon, and now owns 1850 acres OF
and $40 acres of which are 10 Sumner
county.
W. L. Roberts, j. T. Bell. L. A.
Walton, E. n. Weeden, o. Irason, n.
A. Thompson, ]. II. DeLisle, john
Miller and L. YOunt were in the city
Friday morning on their re-
Turn home TO western and northern
Oklahoma from the Enid convention.
ArgOnia Clipper: Judge J. s. Dey,
OF wellington, has accepted an lnvl-
tatiOn TO deliver the Memorial address
10 this city, Judge Dey is a due
orator and the committee were for
tunate in securing him for the occas.
ION. ...E. VanHOrn had three year.
ling steers stolen from his pasture one
night last week. He followed the
tracks about two miles the next morn
ing anu then lost the trail.
Prosperity item from the Muivane
Record; Mel. e. Campbell, by his
local manager, Lindley Dakin. TT
quests us to ask all parties holding
his checks to present same for pay
ment at once, SO his business here
may be closed up. Ever since re
beg n buying feed here there has
been over $500 worth of checks out
standing, Evidently the farmers are
in no great need VI money. Il seems
a little out OF the ordinary to be com
PEELED to advertise for people to call
and get what you owe them.
The amount Of the judgment in the
celebrated Wlckery VS.. Bowersock
case has been paid over TO Tom
George Of Kansas City, attorney for
the plaintiff. This is the old damage
suit against Henry Tisdale for dam
ages for injuries received by being run
over by d bus al Caldwell. The
case had been IN court about twelve
years. The amount Of money paid
over On the judgment was S5,305.25,
and there is quarrel brewing as to
whether George is to have half or one
third of it as his fee.
The work OF completing the Kansas
and Missouri telephone line between
this city and Kansas City is being de-
layed somewhat Oy the nOn-arrval Of
the copper wire. All the iron wire
necessary for the work is on the
ground, but the wire manufacturers
have such heavy orders that it is
nearly impossible to OBTAIN the COP.
per wire as quickly as desired. Owing
to this trouble, there is but one gang
Of men on the work, which is being
pushed as rapidly as circumstances
will permit. 1t is hoped that the
entire line will be completed by June
10 at the latest.
Serpent item from the Oxford Bee
Mr., j, ". Riggs came in from his
farm near Dalton anu tUld us a snake
story winch almost equals tue cele-
brated Dave Leahy brand Of suaAe
stories. He says a Mr.. Peterson, WIN
has rented the Cauley farm, five miles
west and five miles south Of town
noticed horrible stencil arising from
the well and concluded TO ciean il
out, Taking of the boards covering
the well he started to descend but met
with surprise. A sihilant kissing
noise caused him TO look down and
examine the well more closely, and
the sight that met his eyes instantly
changed his mind about descending
any further into that well. From out
of every chink in the walled sides Of
the well prOtruded the head OF a
snake and the bottom was literally
a squirming mass Of reptiles. Mr..
Peterson hastily called to the wind
lass man to "histm aud when safe on
top of earth told what he had seen,
aud plans were laid to hold a snake
barbecue, They threw out the wall
rock, where the snakes were hiding,
down to within ten or twelve feet OF
the bottom. The snakes could keep
out of the way no longer and the men
began killing them with cubs and
loading them into buckets. Mr.. Riggs
says when he came past there Tues
day there was over half barrel OF
dead snakes lying in a pile by the well
which he took the trouble to count.
He found there were over seventy of !
them and Peterson was still killing
Some were four and five feet long and
almost every kind of snake known
in this section was represented, |
garter snakes, water snakes, blue rae
ers, bull snakes, vipers, mOccasins
and sdderS: but he didn't notice any
rattIers Just how these snakes came !
to make den in there is d matter Of |
conjecture. The house and farm has
been vacant for number OF years and |
it is likelv the snakes thought they |
had found safe retreat. Mr.. Riggs
vOuches for the truth of this tale, and |
says there are lots II snakes down
there yet and will let US know what
the full crop figures are up to when
the harvest is past.