The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-10-16
STATE NEWS.

Corn 90 cents bushel at Columbus.
1t costs $40, 600 per year to run Doni.
phan county.
Wilson county girls marry when they
are fifteen.
A large emigration is passing south
Though Shawnee county.
Thirteen Russian families are expected
to settle in the Southern part of CHATEAU.
qua county.
Twelve hundred and twenty head of
cattle passed through AtchisOn Monday y
Tuesday last.
The Wabaunsee county court house
has new chimneys, warranted to smoke
at the right end.
James Grimes, of Marshall county.
boasts of yield of thirty-nine bushels Of
wheat to the..acr
A society of "Old Settlers" embracing
those who lived in Topeka in 1S55-6-7,
has been organized there.
The political situation in Lawrence
prompts them to use such endearing
terms as "scabs and idiots"
The Jewell county Diamond says that
county has population of 1OlSO, ''one-
half, at least, due to the herd',law."
w. H. Hoxie, editor of the Corning,
Iowa, Gazette, was assaulted Monday by
a desperate. The villain has escaped.
Our farmers should lose no opportunity
to pillow all the ground possible this fall.
1t has beeh demonstrated that fall plow-
ing pays.
Our county is thronged with cattle
men from other states, making prepara-
tons to drive their stock here to winter.
Eureka Censoriul.
At Baxter Springs corn is selling. on
the market from IS to % cents. Oats
from Is to 20 cent?. Wheat from IS
cents to 81 per bushel.
!. Hon. Geo. r. Peck, u. S. District Al.
torney, has gone east. He is on his way
to Washington to contest the Usage land
case in the U. S. Supreme Court.
Web. wilder's Book approaches COM
pletion. 1t pans out much larger than
was expected. 1t will make book of
$50 pages, 375 of which are already in
type.
The st. Louis Globe says: ga Miss
Hergent, of Kansas, has fallen heir to
an estate valued at 100000, and scores
of impecunious young fellows are urgent
to become her agent"
A mulberry tree of this years growth
II feet and 3 inches tall, is among the
latest specimens of the productiveness of
this country. 1t grew on Sheriff Hoover's
farm.-Buriiagton Patriot.
The Wathena Reporter says: "The I'M
usually wet season has been the cause of
more than the ordinary amount of chills
and fever this fall. Scarcely family
has escaped, and sometimes three or four
have been sick Ut one house."
Col ID. r. Anthony has returned from
the East and taken charge of the Leaven-
worth Times. He is too tough to kill,
and too restless and energetic to live
idly. We welcome him back 20 a posi-
ton he has filed so we'll for many years
Kansas could ill,ailord to loose him.
Kansas City Meas.
A terrible prairie fire swept over the
country, between Holland and Gypsum
creeks. on Saturday last, for a distance
of fourteen mics. Several farmers had
everything destroyed, and but few in
the track of the fire escaped without
some loss.-A5i'ene Chronicle.
We are glad that Col. Anthony, of the
Leavenworth Tines, is again at his post.
with fair promise of long life. Though
a Republican, he is an honorable one,
and he has so much vitality we are glad
that he passed safely through his late
ordeal, as man of his pluck ought to
live long time.-Sedaiia No. Democrat