The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-01-30
STATE NEWS.
Hay $l4 q ton at Lawrence.

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Coffeyville has q man who sleeps in
his coffin every night.
Abilene has a farmer who sowed l.
200 acres of winter wheat.
A dam has been completed across the
Verdigris at Independence.
The Manhattan Beacon has been con-
solidated with the. Nationalist.
The Fredonia Citizen has been elected
official paper Of Wilson comfy.
Darlington and Eureka lead Oft in the
mad dog excitement this sea on.
After a suspension of q few weeks the
Clyde Reporter comes to the front.
The current expenses of the Peniten-
tiary for the past year were $4S, l5O.
During the absence of Rev. A. Barnes
of Lawrence his wife occupies the pulpit.
P. H. Herman, OF Topeka, talks Of
starting model printing Office at Kansas
City.
Five hundred Mennonites now occu.
py every available house in the town Of
Florence.
Geo. w. Veal announces that he has
not sold the Commonwealth to F. P. Baker,
or any one else.
Coal has been discovered in Washing.
ton county. This is good time Of year
to find fuel.
West Wilkinson has assumed the
duties of p. NJ. at Seneca. He has plenty
of stamps now.
A lucky Hutchinsonian ate water
melon on the 10th inst. He keeps the
fruit in his cellar.
1t is said taat Erie, Neosho county, is
the banner town for taxes, its taxes
being IL per cent.
"reminiscences of Senator Harvey's
army life will appear in the Manhattan
Nationalist soon.
The Abilene. Chronicle man is now
convinced thu thin husk on corn is NJ
sign of open winter.
The Farmers Savings Bank, Of Lii
Cygne, has declared dividend Of Il
per cent, on demand.
Kansas has a, many daily papers as
Vermont, West Verginia, Mississippi
and Arkansas combined.
The City Council Of Chanute has pro-
hibited card playing in the corporation
limits Of that municipality.
The Menuonites have purchased ten
sections Of railroad land in Pleasanton
township, Harvey county.
The Burlington Patriot is curtailed
somewhat in size to meet the general
demand for retrenchment.
A four milo strip Of Howard county il
about to be annexed to Wilson, by re
quest Of the residents thereon.
Several carloads of wheat have been
shipped from Portland, Oregon, billed t.
the Relief Society at Topeka.
The government stables at Fort Leav'
enworth, were burned last Saturday
night by incealiaries. Loss about $780,
900.
St. Mary's had legal dance the othe'
night. The Mayor, Justice Of the Peact
Police Judge and City Attorney we're In
attendance.
During the sitting of the Crawford
County Court last week there were hve
divorce cases, in three of which divorces
were granted.
T A bill has been introduced in the
Legislature for the suppression of three
card monte and other gambling. The
bill should pass.
Representative Vantrees, from Go
manche" county, Kas., who had his fee:
frozen on his way to Topeka has had
them amputated.
The Walnut Valley Times gives al
account of q "circle hunt" in that re
gion. Forty deer were in the ring, bu
most of them got out.
Shawnee county was awarded but ONT
officer in the Legislature, Mrs. Flower
the journal clerk. The Legislature doe
not encourage "home talent"
It is rumored that Rev. I. 8. Kallocl
has had tempting offer from the Bap
lists of San Francisco to take the pastor
ate OF one of the churches there.
Immense freight trains, loaded will
merchandise for Colorado, are passing
over the Kansas Pacific road now, bring
ing into pse oil the extra train men.
The Legislature has passed . resolu
ton almost unanimously in both House
asking Congress to make appropriation
for the improvement of Galveston haE
Dor.
Our friend Stotler of the Empori
Ners, and his estimable wife. met with
great loss last Saturday, in the death o
their son Charles, bright boy OF thiI
teen.
The Wsterville Telegraph says q ne'
secret society il to be organized in Wa
terville, the unwritten work of which
to tell: "Oh, why did you leave tn
East p
During the "cold snap" it was foun'
necessary to stop trains on the Marrow
Gauge railroid and take the locomotive
to some farmers fireside and warm II
The Leavenworth Appeal says this.
The editor of the Manhattan National
ist. who lived for many years in the South
both before and since the war, says o
the Southern leaders:
ave write what we personally know
to be the fact when we say that the rea
Southern leaders have systematically an.
persistantly tried to compel the repub!i
can party to elect bad men to Office 10
the express purpose of thereby creatin
such sentiment against it As to lead t
| :.a...L.ow of conrse this intention