The Monitor-Press from Wellington, Kansas • 1

State Hist Society Wilkin ay MAW CONSOLIDATED WITH TI1E SUMNER COUNTY STAR, NOVEMBER 1909 VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 8 WELLINGTON, KANSAS, FEBRUARY 22, 1911 ESTABLISHED 1872 LOCAL AND PERSONAL FATAL GUN ACCIDENT MORE FRAME BUILDINGS THE DAN HAINES WILL CAUSES TWO DEATHS PLANS FOR POST-OFFICE HAVE BEEN APPROVED CAUGHT IN KAY COUNTY; ARE TO PLEAD GUILTY You Prob- ARE FOOD FOR FLAMES These Items About People ably Know. George Stewart was up from Ponca City last Saturday visiting his brother Clyde.

E. Hartley, of Astoria, Illinois, is here visiting his daughter, Mrs. John M. Pile. Probate Judge Taggart wss called to Augusta last Sunday by the illness of a sister.

Mrs. Burton Oliver, of Wichita, is ill at the home of her mother, Mrs. C. H. Barnard.

Government May Soon Call For Bids For Wellington's New Federal Building. Postmaster R. J. Smith last Friday morning received a letter from Senator Charles Curtis written in reply to a request for information as to what progress was being made with Wellington's new public building. The letter brought the encouraging news that the plans for the new post-office here had been prepared by the supervising architect of the treasury and had been approved by the president and cabinet as required by law.

The Dutch Henry Rookery on North Washington Wiped Out By Blaze Early Tuesday Morning. Fire which broke out about 1 o'clock Tuesday morning wrecked and practically destroyed the collection of one-story frame buildings on North Washington avenue occupied by Ira Shearman's meat market, the motor-cycle shop of Haughey Gapen on the south and an uncccupied rcon between them which has beon recently used as a chili joint or restaurant but which was vacant at this time. The flames were discovered by Johnson Turner and D. C. Dorsett, the night marshals, who while making their rounds thought they smelled William McQuitty Follows His Sweet-Heart in Committing Suicide Believed to Have Been Death Pact.

William McQuitty, the young Cowley county farmer whom the clause in her father's will forbidding her to marry caused Katherine Haines to take her own life, followed his sweetheart to the grave by committing suicide last Friday morning, just five days after the girl had killed herself and in the same manner. The ycung man was found by his father lying on the floor of hii bedroom writhing in agony from the pain of a heavy charge of shot in his breast, from the effects of which he died four hours later. The young man had been greatly depressed over Miss Haines's death and the part that he had played in the tragedy. By the terms of her father's will the young lady was forbidden to marry McQuitty until she was twenty- J. L.

Ames has joined the sales orce the grocery department at Gambrill's. Mr. and Mrs. B. F.

Zook have re Senator Curtis further stated that turned from a visit to their son at Lawrence. Two Young Men Arrested Near Newkirk, Oklahoma, With Stolen Horses in Their Possession. Sheriff J. M. Lingenfelter returned last Thursday night from Newkirk, the county seat of Kay county, just south of us in Oklahoma, having in custody George Anderson and Frank Phillips, two young men who had been arrested at his request by the local officers for the theft of two horses, buggy and harness from prr'Jes rear Peck.

The horse3 were taken on Friday nigt of previous week. One of them belonged to Bert, Wolf, living east of Peck, another to a neighboring farmer named Parker, while the buggy and harness were stolen from the barn of Frank Watson, in the same vicinity. The authorities here were not notified of the thefts until about twenty-four hours afterwards, Mr. Wolfe thinking the animal might have strayed away, and it was not till he learned of the buggy and harness being taken from Watson's that he sent word to the sheriff. That officer immediately got busy and after a few days succeeded in locating the men wanted with the stolen property in Kay county.

The Kay county sheriff found the two horses secreted in a canyon a few miles west of Newkirk and the buggy hidden some distance away. When arrested the men made no particular re Joseph Fisher Shot by Gun He Was Carrying While Plowing. Joseph A. Fisher, a well-to-do farmer living one-half mile north of Conway Springs, was fatally wounded by the accidental discharge of a shot-gun he was carrying while plowing on Tuesday afternoon of last week, dying a few hours later from hi3 injuries. Mr.

Fisher was carrying a shot-gun on hi3 lap with which to shoot rabbits while plowing. It is supposed that in turning a corner the gun slipped and was discharged as it struck the ground into the left sido of his abdomen. No one was with him at the time, but shortly after as Mrs. J. L.

Ullery, a neighbor, was driving along the road she noticed Mr. Fisher lying on the ground and motioning for help. She went to him and found his clothes burning around the place where the shot had entered his body. She extinguished the flames with her hinds and then ran to the nearest telephone to summon assistance. Drs.

Mclthenny, Evans and Kyser .11 responded and the wounded man was taken to his home in an automobile about 5 o'clock. The full charge had taken effect in the intestines and daath ensued about 9 o'clock that night. After funeral services at the Presbyterian church on Thursday afternoon the body was taken to Wilson, Kansas, for interment. The deceased came from Ellsworth county about five years ago and bought the old Sam McKibben farm, where he was building up a nice home. He was a little over fifty years of age and leaves a wife and five small children.

Mrs. Max Weigel. of Oklahoma City, moke and burning wood. A few min he was doing all in his power to have the preliminary work advanced as fast as possible and ha thought, barring all unforeseen delays, that the treasury department would be able to advertise is visiting her parents, Judge and Mrs. A.

T. Wilson. utes' investigation located the trouble Miss Ruth Smith has returned from in a shed or lean-to cn the north side of the butcher shop, where a brisk fire th an extended visit at the family's for for bids for the construction of building within a very short time. mer home in Ohio. was eating into the flimsy wooden walls.

Fire headquarters beinrr onlv a And it might be added, if there is i five years old, though it was provided Miss Margaret Walton has taken ew steps away the department was any member of the Kansas congress-' that in case she did not marry until charge of the millinery department in the Zug Co. store. promptly hustled out, but before the she reached that age she might share ional delegation who can be relied upon boys could get a stream of water into play the flames had enveloped the Mrs. Ed Bauman returned Monday rom Kansas City, where she has been equally in the estate with her two sisters. In the will her father made it plnin that McQuitty was obiectionable to induce thi3 slow-moving government of ours to get a move on itself in the interest of anything wanted by any whole structure.

visiting Mrs. John May. As the three little frames were or community, (to him and that he was opposed to his R. W. Allen, of Anson, has moved to bunched close together and the fire had man to turn the Kansas constituent Senator Curtis is the trick.

town, having secured residence pro already obtained a good start at the perty on West Harvey. back end of all of them when discov Miss Meta Showalter entertained the ered, the firemen devoted their atten Prentis club Monday evening at her home on South Jefferson. tion first to saving the Hicks brick building immediately north. This was I. A.

Zug left Monday evening for Chicago and New York to buy goods, accomplished, but by the time the flames in the frame row had been got marrying Katherine. She was greatly attached to McQuitty and the latter reciprocated her affection. The Butler county authorities who investigated the two deaths believe that at the meeting on the Sunday night before the girl shot herself the two entered into a suicide pact, but that McQuitty did not muster his courage up to the killing point until Friday. The funeral was held in the church at Red Bud and at the same hour as that of Miss Haines. The same choir rendered the same music and the same pall-bearers acted.

The young man Mrs. Zug accompanied him. The remains of William Shaffer, living on Route 3, north of town, reached here last Friday from Roswell, New Mexico. Deceased had been attacked by tuberculosis some time ago and had gone to New Mexico to secure the benefit of a milder climate, but without the hoped-for results. The funeral was held in the Methodist church at Anson at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon.

Mr. Shaffer is survived by his wife and three children. Airs. xi. Sutherland, oi Uttawa, is Death of Mrs.

A. DeTurk. ten under control all three buildings were gutted to such an extent that under the city fire ordinance they will have to be torn down. visiting her sister, Mrs. A.

S. Bringle of 117 North Jefferson avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Downs returned Mrs.

A. DeTurk, who has been in de The heaviest loss fell on Ira Shear last Friday from a visit with Mr. and clining health for nearly a year, passed away at her home two miles northwest Mrs. Roy Chapman at Abilene. man, wno lost his stock of meats ard shop fixtures.

He had some insurance. Mrs. Sam Woolard and daughter of town at 1 o'clock last Thursday. Her illness is thought to date from a sistance and agreed to return to Kan- sas without a requisition. Two dozen new pocket-knives were also found in their possession, believed to have been stolen from some store.

The men are George Anderson, aged twenty-six, who claims his home in in Colorado, and the other is Frank Phillips, aged nineteen, who belongs in Wichita. The latter has recently been released on parole from the reformatory at Hutchinson. Both men waived their preliminary examination last Saturday morning and have said that they would plead guilty upon the convening of district court. Both will receive penitentiary sentences. Not much is known about the older man, Anderson, but he is believed to have been in similar scrapes before.

was buried in the cemetery at Red Bud Frances, visited over Sunday with Mrs. Haughey Gapen got out some of their motor-cycles, but had no insur beside the body of his sweetheart T. A. Mayhew and other friends fall she received last May, since which ance on those that were burned. There McQuitty was twenty-three years of The funerai of little Dorothy, infant daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Bur-son, was held Sunday afternoon at the family residence on West Fourth street. C. F. Russell is said to have traded acre and leaves a father, mother and his residence on North A street for several brothers and sisters.

was nothing in the third room. The cause of the fire is unknown. The three buildings were originally built by Henry Conrad, who put them farm in the west part of the county. Mrs. Seymour Brown is visiting her sister, Mrs.

Chas. Hood, at Hutchin up soon after the cyclone of May, 1902, son. She will return here in a few days. The Strong grain elevator at River- which had flattened out everything in that block. The present owner is J.

S. Reynolds, of Muskogee, who bought the lots of Conrad some years ago. If any buildings are erected in their places the commissioners will undoubtedly re dale burned dnrn last Wednesday night. This seems to be a bad time for elevators. quire them to be of stone or brick, so C.

E. Johnson started yesterday for Florida, where the firm of Stewart time she has been gradually failing. Her death was not unexpected, though she was thought the week before her death to be improving. She was in her seventy-second year at the time of her decease. Anne Elizabeth Orner was born Newark, New Jersey, September 16, 1839.

When two years old she was taken by her parents to Martinsville, Indiana, where she lived until grown to womanhood. In 1858 she was married to Abraham DeTurk. To this union seven children were born, of whom four are living: Charles DeTurk, of New Orleans; Mattie Oscar L. and Kate E. DeTurk, of Wellington.

She joined the Methodist church when about eighteen years old, under the ministry of Rev. Wm. A. McGinnis, who later performed her marriage ceremony. The family came to Kansas in 1878 and for a number of years lived in Cowley county.

Later they removed to the farm northwest of town which A Fagot Party. The Parliamentary club held a postponed meeting last Friday evening as guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. W.

errick at their home on East Eleventh street. The evening's diversion took the form that the fire is not much of a disaster after all. Johnson is interested in some land propositions. Merle Ward, who is with a big mill of a fagot party, where the company ing company at Lamar, Colorado, is here on a visit to his parents, Mr. and sat around the open fire-place and each Mrs.

S. L. Ward. A little baby girl at the home of Dr, one as their names were called threw a bundle of sticks on the flames and while the fagot burned was expected and Mrs. G.

L. Millington is an object to tell a story or sing a song with Kan of much interest to the family, rela sas as its subject. The opening exer tives and friends. Sheriff Lingenfelter took John Har cise of the evening had been the discussion of a delicious five-course sup 'fen rison, of Illinois township, who was ad per, the place cards for which were judged insane last week, to the Topeka has been their home for twenty-three years. She was a devoted mother, al asylum yesterday.

ways happy and cheerful, and she goes Is Getting Ready. While County Assessor Loper has had a comparatively easy time of it since he went into office the time is approaching wh'en he will have to be very active. He not only will have to oversee the next assessment campaign, but he will probably be called upon to act as teacher in a preliminary school of instruction for beginners in the art of separating the taxpayer from his money. Deputy assessors must be taught the principles of taxation and then must be drilled until they can enter a house against all protest, hypnotize the head of the family, make up a complete inventory of his goods and chattels and retire again making him believe that his property is worth twice as much as he values it at. But all this takes a lot of study and sometimes considerable coaching.

Marriage Licenses. Jas. A. Hudson, 25 Hunnewell forth to her new life beloved bv all Jesse Linn has resigned hi3 position with the Wellington Clothing company and taken his old place in the shoe de sunflower badges for the men and folding sunflower fans for the ladies. Guests of the evening were Mrs.

W. C. McCroskey, of 1 Sterling; Herbert Moodie, of Lawrence, and F. K. Rob-bins, of this city.

who knew her. She leaves to mourn her loss besides partment at Gambrill's. the husband and her four children two The condition of Mrs. T. U.

Andrews, Our censors hedge us roundabout. And guard us with tKeir dusty creeds. They cry us wrong in hope or doubt. And howl liKe ban-dogs at our deeds i They wail our Knotted sKein of life And flout us for our clumsy hands Because with tangles it is rife But adl the time God understands. grand children, Ruth DeTurk, of Cow who has been dangerously ill, is much improved and she f5 able now to sit up ley county, and Mrs.

Mabel F. Lewis, of Arkansas City, and an only sister, for a portion of each day. Mrs. Kate R. Sloan, of Denver, Colo Mr.

and Mrs. D. C. Patten spent rado. some days in Medicine Lodge last week The funeral took place from the fam visiting their daughter, Mrs.

John Richardson, and husband. ily residence at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon, and was conducted by Rev. Mr. Lindley Green and Miss Ethel Rider were married at 7 o'c'ock last Wednesday evening by Rev. L.

T. Faulders at the home of the bride's parents. There was a nice company of friends and relatives present to offer congratulatiors and a splendid supper followed the ceremony. The bride is a young lady well and favorably known, having until recently filled the position of cashier at the Rothrock laundry. The groom a member of the North Washington avenue firm of electricians, Fred Bohanna was down from Wich Our censors measure step and stride With mathematic rod and rule.

And when we wander to one side Straightway they cry aloud "Thou fool And bocK and bell and candle bring To curse the one who halting stands. But, ah, the footsteps wandering, 9 He understands He understands. ta last Friday doing some more figur ing on tne proposed new building to D. H. Switzer of the Methodist church.

The attendance of friends and neighbors at the services was large and many rich and fragrant floral tributes adjoin Garland Archer's. Irene Kmsey, 19 Hunnewell Lindley M. Greene, 23 Wellington Ethel Rider, 19 Wellington The annual report of the county clerk Miss Mayme Earner and her cousin, Miss Garrity of Perth, returned Satur day evening from a visit with friends testified to the love and sympathy of the community in which so msny years of her life had been spent. shows the expenditures in the general at Newton and Emporia. ates ureen, ana is a nne young man.

Mr. and Mrs. Green will go to housekeeping in a new home on West fund for the past year to have been $33,337.70, of whrch the items for new Allen Davis wants hi3 creditors to be Our censors weigh our every word, And sift its sound for sign of sin; And whispered dreams that are unheard. Against the screen of faith they pin. With harpie-smile they search our brain To bind our though! with brazen bands.

But hope shall struggle not in vain. And all the time God understands. C. A. Gambrill and M.

A. Duncan lenient with him for a short time, as left the first of the week for a two-weeks trip through the eastern mar Harvey. F. M. Borders has received a letter the high price of feed has put him in the matter of finances.

W. Cottingham, of McPherson, an extensive farmer and stockman, kets to purchase a stock of spring and summer goods for the dry goods de bridges, $39,430.80, and repairs of bridges, $5,081.71, together constitute nearly one-half the total. The general, bridge, county sinking and interest funds were overdrawn January 9th, the date of the report, to an aggregate of nearly $40,000. from Hugh Hoskins, who is down in soutbernOklahoma somewhere, stating partment of the Gambrill Mercantile was in town last Thursday. He own3 company.

that he has received word that his several fine farms in thi3 county. lie understands our little fears, Our little doubts and little woes, And in the shadow of the years He sees the soul He Knows He Knows I He scans us not as censors do. To marK the blindly groping hands But all our good he brings in view. He understands He understands. The gas office has been moved to the former wife, Mrs.

Alice Goodwin-Eckles-Young-Hoskins, has been acquitted in the Chicago court of bigamy J. N. McCarty, Charles Tucker and John Lalonde are the three engineers who come from Amarillo to take the ITT II -1 John Harrison, son of Charles Harri- west room of the Rothrock building on East Harvey, and there is the place to jsonj the well-known Illinois township farmer, was adjudged insane in pro pay your bills and register your kicks. new wemrgion-oanacnan passenger runs. All 'three formerly lived here on the ground of insanity.

However, the court instead of turning her loose committed her to the asylum for bate court la3t Friday afternoon. He and all express pleasure in being able the insane at Kankakee. This inform has been in an asylum once before but had been discharged as apparently cured. Last week while at Wichita he ts- get back. Their families will join them as soon a3 they can secure ation came to Mr.

Hoskins from J. E. Young, who was next to the last on the houses. list of "exes." got to acting qaeerly and upon the request of hia relatives wa3 taken in The Relief corps ladies will give their usual Washington's birthdav chicken- Roy Hitchcock leave3 this evening for New Orleans. He will take in the festivities of Mardi Gras and may extend his tour to Florida and Cuba.

Frank Welter, of Oxford, i3 working in The News office for a couple of weeks in place of his sister, Mr3. Josephine Knowle3, who is taking a vacation. Jacob Smith was in town last Friday. He had had a public sale at his farm near South Haven last week and with Mrs. W.

C. McCroskey and little pie supper and social at the G.A.R. hall this (Wednesday) evening. Al invited to honor the memory of the Father of his Country and eat chicken charge by the police. County Clerk Crosen returned Saturday evening from Kansas City, Kansas, where he attended the meeting of the Kansas grands lodge of Masons.

He reports a very large attendance and the. transaction of much business of importance to the order. son Ward, who were guests for several days last week of Mrs. II. W.

Herrick, left for their home in Sterling Saturday. Since removing from Wellington she has remained most of the time at that place on account of her mother's poor health. pie. J. C.

Newbold, of Wichita, is visiting Mayor W. J. Newbold and family. his family were on their way to their Copyright, W10, by W. Q.

Chapm new home near Baltimore, Maryland..