People's Voice from Wellington, Kansas • 1

1 i VOLUME XVII. WELLINGTON, SUMNER COUNTY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, NUMBER 47 TEN YEARS AQO. Gas Line. Winfield Courier: The heavy blast Terrible Fight For A Salt Plant -I' $5.50 BOOTEES at $4.25 ToDeka, Kansas, Jan. 2.

A relief traih has just armed herewith a load of th9 iajarftd and dead. They report all of the two trains destroyed by fire, The cause of the wreck is unknown, rut it is hinted that it was caused by a misunderstanding of orders. A cumber of Wellington people who are expecting relatives or friends to arrive from the north over lh Hock If land hve been alarmed tearing hey were in the wreck The probability is that no Wellington peop traveling' direct between Kansas City and Wellington would be on either of these trains. Both train? belonged to the El Paso line of the Rock Island whih leaves the main line at Herington. 6 We still have a few pairs of those $5.50 5 I i Ci rv a El i Dooies leu tu zpfi.o 1 They're a snap.

Just the thincr for this muddy weather. ing hear! to the northeast ct town the past two days is for the natural gas pipe line on the hill east of the state school. There is a ledge of hard limestone eight or ten feet thick covering the entire top of the hill, extending nearly a along the road on which the line will belaid. The soil is thin on it, and as the pipes have to be buried two feet be low the surface blasting is necessary. Friday evening the pipe gang fiuishe' the eight inch line nearly to the state school, and had to stop because the ditches were not ready.

This gang is the one that laid the six inch line from Wellington to the Limbocker bridge. When this was complete to the junction there the gangbegan laying eight inch ripe coming this way. The line from Atlanta to the junction is nearly com plete. It is expected that work on the local pipe lines will begin next week it the weather does not prevent The total amount of taxes paid in the county treasury on the final day was (64,378.89 Of this amount the Santa Fe railroad paid over I25.C00, The Rock Island paid about the Kansas and Southwestern and the Missouri and Kansas $9,000. Tne Stewart estate, the largest private interests in the count? paid 17.900.

It is nfV reported that Governor Hoch will pardon both Willie Sells and John Collins from the penitentiary The Sells and Collins are both noted cases. Sells was convicted of killing his father, mother and brother, and Collins was found guilty of killing his father, prominent Topeka man. Both were convicted on circumstantial evi dence and theie are many who believe in their innocence. The year 1906 is now brought to a close. It has been one of marked pro gress for Wellington.

It has been an unprecedented era of building and pub lic improvement. And there is every reason to believe that the year of 1907 will see the work of progress continue, and by the close of another year Well ington will have taken several more ad vat ced stride City Marshal Shawver was cailad to th9 Baptist church Sunday night to take charge of a drunken man who was di3tuibine the meeting. The man proved to be an Oklahoma citizen who had drifted in during the day, filled up with Oklahoma boczo Prof. Willis has returned from Brou-san, Kansas to resume his wore as Latin instructor in the high school. Mrs.

Willis is visiting at Newton. From ihe files of Journal Dec. 25, 1S4, A phonograph man had worked the town of all its looss run. There was a rumor taot Ilyron Cain of Bella Plains was soon i be marrial. J.

L. Kise went to Hun tew ell to repair the lines. The Wellington creamery opened for business. Miss Mary Share had gone to Alva to visit her parents. O.

Curtis was invoicing his clock of haidware. Canan's band gave a concert at t.e opera hcuse at night. Clarence Flaniro departed tor Salt Lake Oity to make'his faiure home. Miss Gertie Crawford was here from Kansas Oity viitmg friends. Mis.

O. C. Knowles was down from Topeka visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs.

C. F. Luening. Willis Folks mads a shipment of 80.000 bushels of corn to Old Mexico. Mr.

Folks reported the grain businaas lively. The gambling hordes were reported to be running in Wellington to full blast. Clem Spruanie was the biggest adver tiser in the Journal, carrying a half page. The official directory showed the city officers were. Mayor, W.

R. Savage; clerk, Fed Bohaans; attorney, C. Elliott; marshal, Frank Henderson; street commissioner, A. W. Shearman; police judge, J.

Book waiter. The editor of the Jourxal. Will Tay- lor, was demanding of the Spanish government that Gen. Weyler be hsngel. Tha Journal reproduced the following frora the Woodward News: How the world do move.

We see in the Wellington papers how the "Rev.James Lawrence" will hotd services etc. We first know Jim Lawrence when he was police judge in Wellington and oouli squirt a stream of tobaco juice through a It not hole in his office floor further than any man in Wellington. He has practiced law tn Sumner ounty years and at on time was asiociated with Andy Richard the practice. Jim Lawrence had a kind heart always, which may perhaps aocount for his determination to savs souls, but he was easily recognized by the prof esa tae wittiest, juciest liar in Sumner county. He was moreover an all fired good lawyer asd we hope he is equally good in his new line; for the Lord knows Wellington needs all the saving grace it can get.

Wreck, Rotk Island Passenger Trains Collide Near Alma This Morning With Awful Re-salts. Thirty Five Dead. And Forty Injured. Wreck Caused Through Misunderstanding of Orders. Trains Have Burned.

At 2:03 o'clock Wednefday morning, at Voliand, a 6mall station about eight miles south of Alma, and thirty miles from Topeka, two Rock Island passenger trains, known as the Texas Flyers collided, resulting in the death of at least thuty-flve people and the injury of forty more. Reports received here today place tbe dead at from thirty-five to forty. The trains are the ones which run between Chicago and 1 Paso, and the one going west was loaded with homeaeekers bound for Texas. The definite details of the wreck have not been learned here, but it is re ported that an operator at Alma gave tha wrong orders, causing the wreck, and that he cannot be found. It is known that fire broke out among the wreckage, adding untold horror to lha alreadjterrible disaster.

A reliable report from Kansas City states that the two trains were entirely consumed. Midland Valley Commission Ob. fur nishes the following bulletins: Alma, Kansas, Jan. 2. Two Rock Island passenger trains.

No. 30 east bound from EiPaso and a second section of No. Zi est bond from Chicago col 1 led head on here at 2:05 this morning. Tbeksowa dead now number 37 and 1 the oo.rect number of injured impossi ble to obtain. Sueli an Industry for Wellington Will Be Agitated For Daring the New Year.

The question of establishing a salt plant at Wellington iaorje thathas been agitated many times and it has been tlked of so much without anything materializing that such an industry has been looked upon 3r some time among the icuposiibilisies One of the officers ol tne Commercial club, in speaking of the matter today, is of the opinion how-erer, that a salt plant for Wellington is one of the possibilities of the new year. He says the people of Wellington were never in a better position than at the present time to tike hold of such' a prop osition and push it to a successful fin ish. Thare is a spirit of progress in the town as is evidenced by the many improvements made past year. He believes that if the Cimmercial club will take hold of the proposition and push it as that organization has pushed other enterprises they will be success ful. There is no good reaion why Well ington should not be the sell manufacturing center cf the state.

Great beds of the purest salt in the world underlie U9. This is a proved fact. It has been demonstrated nor a number of years In the past railroad discrimination has been a handicap to all etforts to estab lish a salt plant at Wellington. But under the new anti-discrimination law Wellington can ehip salt as cheaply as Hutchinson or Anthony, The officer of the Commercial club his figured it out that salt can be manufactured at Wellington nd marketed at a profit cf from 75 to 80 cents a barrel. This will 17 the salt down in Hutchinson, for instance, at about 90 cents a barrel.

The Wellington merchants are today Spaying $1.15 per barrel for Hutchinson salt, at Wellington. lie is conhdent tha.t a salt plant be a paying proposition for owners, as well as paying industry for Wellington, The salt plant idea will be one of the things to be pushed during the year of 1907. Farmers meeting is called for atnr dy. January 6. at 1:30 to organize a 'County Union to the State and Na tional Union, to get better prices for farm produce.

Farmers don't miss it. i i I I Mj I I Aged Couple e. Mr. and Airs. D.vid Ingram, both aged about 73 years, died at their heme near Milan Tuesday, Death came to Mis.

Ingram first and Mr. Ingram died about six hours later. naa both been suffering with pneumonia. They, were among the oldest residents of Sum ner county, having resided here about twenty-fire jean, and were highly re spected people. The services will be held Thursday.

iNew Santa Fe Superintendent. G. C. Starkweather formerly of Enid where he bad been manager of the I), and R. G.

road, has been appointed sn perinte: dent of this division of the Santa Fe, with headquarters at Wellington and will take his new position at once. A new office has bee created here, that of division engineer, which will be filled by Ernest -Sludge of Newton. Many peop are wondering what thi old gas company will do with itiplai. when the natural gas gets La pa otion here. We asked this qmtctioa of Mana ger Carnes this morning.

He replied that the company would remain in bust nees for some time yet, as many of its would not be ready for natar al gas soon. In regard to the final dis position of the plant, the company is not dicided. It may be that tne pipes may some time usd for natural gas.hould gas be found close enough to Welling ton to afford an opportunity to compete with the new gas company. The Wichita Eagle recently boaited of a nine foot peach tree of one year's growth raised in Sedgwick county. Sumner county can beat that Ohas.

Stephenson has left at Ouyer and Collins office a ten foot p9ch tree grawn on his farm near Belle Plaine s'nee last spring. BUTTREY The Largest and only Exclusive Shoe Store in Wellington We are not open on Sundays (f Marriage Licenses. W. E. Moore.

Caldwell. 21. Cllie May Huttson, Caldwell, 18, Jesse M. Carrothers, Wellington, 37. Ella Brown.

Dalton, 23. Claude E. Taylor, Wellington, 24 Boaetta Gaorge, Wellington, 18. Edward Babeok, Caldwell, 84. Bessie John, Caldwell, 21.

Frank Fisher Buys Grocery. Prank Fisher, who for years has teen head salesman for O. A. Gambrill's da partment store, has resigned hia posi tioo and has pnrohased the Penniwel Parker grocery. He will take posses sion within a few days.

Mr. Fisher is I an experienced grooeryman and will no doubt make a success. The store will be known as Fisher's Cash Grocery. l' Messrs. Penni well and Parker who re tire have not yet dedided upon what business they will engage in.

i Mr, and Mrs. Aba Mat tin are here tvom Winfield stopping with relatives, Thev will leave for Hutchinson Boon wV.wa arfin Vaa a rnc tx rnoL jwitb. the C. H. McBerney Dry la company.

Mr. Martin goes to ford today on a business trip. Be Hot. Senatorial Candidates Have Opened Headquarters. Eight Are in the Field.

Topeka, Dec. 23 The legislature which will convene here Tuesday, January 8, is expected to be one of the most interesting assemblies of tbe kind Kau- Ii3 has had In recent years. While tbe contest for the place in the United States senate is of absarbing interest, there are a number of other problems to be solved, and the manner cf their solution is yet to be planned. The candidates for United State? sen ator have opened their headquarters during the week, or have their representatives on the ground watching the political trend It is difficult tc ctiain figures concerning the strength of the candidates, either from them or their managers. CoEgtesnnan Charles Curtis and his friends nay he will have forty votes on the first ballet.

He neeas twenty-seven more to control the re publican caucus, and these are expected to come to him on early The other candidates who are actively en gaged in tbe contest are Congressman Phillip Campbell, ct the Third dis trict; Congressman Victor Murdosk, of the Eighth district; J. L. Bristow, of Salina, formerly fourth assistant post master genetal; W. R. Stubbs of Lawrence; A.

W. Benson of Ottawa, the present Benator oy appointment of the governor; Jaies F. Gatty. of Kansas Oity, Kas W. J.

Bailey, ex-governor, and W. A Calderhead, member of congress from the Fifth dirtrict. 1 H. JAMIESON, M. D.

Over Security -State Bank Practice limited to Diseases of Eye, Ear d4 throat. Hours 1 to 4 p.m. Real Estate Transfer. R. T.

Alexander to J. M. Lince felter, lots 11, 12, blk 26, Wall-ington H25 A Wellington woman who thought she was married some time since has learned that she is sMU a single woman. It has been discovered that her suppos ed husbind has another wife living, rendering her marriage illegal. Be Sold I Q) Will clos of oodl wMrsiiini si voiry few days amid tine prices tlhiey are malliinig oe Dry Goods amd tSlhoes slhioujilld attract everybody aim tlhie Cotamty.

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