People's voice., 1900-07-12

The long distance line Of the Mis-
souri, and Kansas Telephone company
is now in active operation and is open
for the use OF the public. The wires
have been thoroughly inspected, all
imperfections corrected ard one Can
now talk as readily with persons in
Kansas City and Chicago as il they
were only mile or two away.
Harry Buttrey has his mammoth
shoe aOOut ready for erection in front
OF his store. He has been working on
the snoe for several months, and the
finishing touches are being put on. 1t
Is a marvel Of perfection, and will be
the most conspicuous sign in town.
The material used to construct the
shoe cost him about $3.50, but he has
Tut in about 5000 worth Of work on it.
Al man representing himself to be
J. C. Moore, an eX-cOnductOr, went
into B. F. Sparr's store Thursday and
bought a suit OF clay worSted clothes.
He asked the privilege OF taking them
home to show to his wife, and offered
Sparr s. on them, saying he would
pay the rest if the suit pleased his
wife. Sparr refused the s., but
allowed the man to take the clothes.
He was watched, and suspicion was
aroused when he went into Saylor &
Meyers and bought a telescope, He
was followed to the union depot,
where the suit was taken away from
him. Later, he returned to town and
was trying to work Owen Stevens at
Glen SpruaDces store, where City
Marshal Cox gave him minutes to
leave town. The man was harvest
hand and had been working for Ben
Peffly.
A Topeka Journal dispatch from
Kansas City says: "The citizens Of
Caldwell, Kan, attended the conven-
tion in the same style that Tammany
came, in special cars. Caldwell is
represented by crowd of enthusiasts
who chartered sleeping car, which
was brought to Kansas City and set
out in the yards. The Kansans, when
they did any sleeping, went to this
car, the meals being procured up
town. The Caldwell crowd Lad OppO-
sition in a crowd from Wellington.
Twenty from Wellington captured
the house Of an ex-Wellington man,
for the week, paying all expenses,
furnishing servants TO do the work,
giving the lady OF the house a vaca
tion for the Week, the members Of
the party taking turns in escorting
her to the convention. Ed Hackney
is the great sachem Of this camp"
Asa result Of the celebration Of
Independence Gay with firearms, toy
cannon, giant crackers and other
forms OF explosives, thirty persons
were killed and 1925 injured, accord
ing TO reports received from Us
cities. The toy pistol and the toy
cannon are shown 10 have done as
Oeadly execution sometimes as has
6een done in war by those loaded with
bullets and canister and aimed to
kill. SkyTockets, anvil and powder
explosions and the premature dis.
ct arges Of Fourth of July cannon
CT clmpleted the list of miShaps. In sew.
eral instances persons were killed
Trough runaway accidents due d.
rtctly to fireworks. A fire loss OF
sl2S, ,325 was caused by the fireworks
in addition to the injury to human
life. In Chicago one BOY was killed,
against one death last year, but the
accidents we're less numerous. There
were 40 costly fires in Chicago.
Frankfort, KY, alone suffered a fire
loss OF $4,000, due to fIecrackers.
Other cities also suffered heavily. Out
Of this total OF 1,325 persons hurt in
au attempt to be patriotic, 442 can at
tribute their injuries to firecTackers
aud dynamite tOrpedOes. The deadly
cannon frecrackers did most of this
execution. Out Of l52 injuries by
| firearms in sixty-seven cities, the toy
pistol caused l05. Gunp0wder explos-
ions, including the premature blowing
up Of many village anvils. caused the
injury OF lS7 out OF this list. Many
of the injuries included in the lists
were reported as prospectively fatal.