DROUTH IS SERIOUS.

Private Water Supply at Wellington Is Shut Off.

Wellington, Kan., Oct. 8.--The drouth has necessitated the water company serving notice that Saturday morning private consumers will have their water supply cut off because of the scarcity of water in Slate creek. The creek is about empty, and this action is necessary to protect the city in case of fire. Persons who have been depending on their hydrants for water will have to look to other sources until it rains. There is likely to be some trouble experienced in securing water from wells, etc., as many of them are beginning to show signs of going dry. The situation is getting extremely serious with no prospects of immediate relief.

The Kansas Semi-Weekly Capital, October 12, 1897

Indians Looking for the Christ

(Kansas Sunflower, 26 September 1890)

Pierre, S.D., Sept. 23--The Indians on the Sioux reservation are expecting the coming of Christ daily.  He is, they suppose, to cover the earth with a stratum of soil thirty feet deep, covering up everybody but the good Indians, who will squirm through to the surface to find a veritable "happy hunting ground" on earth.