Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1891 — BLEEDING KANSAS. [ARTICLE]

BLEEDING KANSAS.

Twenty-your Hundred People in Wallace County Starring to Death. A committee has reached Kansas City from Wallace county, Kansas, in behalf of and for the starving and freezing farmers of that region. When it was decided t > send a committee a mass meeting was called to raise money to defray the ex pensesof the delegates. Twenty dollars was needed, but that sum could not be secured from the 300 men in the gathering One of the committee took his horse t Spartan Springs and mortgaged it for the sum. The 3,400 people of Wallace.county are hovering about fires made of cow chips, and their daily fare is not enough to suffice for a child for one meat Las year the fourth successive crop failed in western Kansas.