The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-10-02
STATE NEWS.
sahna has two grain elevator.

| Sahna has two grain elevators
Sedan in Elk county has just had /.
Harvest Feast"
i The Nennonites are making settle
ments in Rush county.
The Paola mills are grinding buck
wheat. Oh for hot eekee.
The Barton county fair takes place or
the 9Th and 7th of October.
The Presbyterian church at Peabody
will be dedicated October 8.
Five 4houssnd hogs in Butler county
half q hog ~ the inhabitant.
Kidney disease has killed several hor.
see in Coffey county recently.
It cost Reno county $4,000 to run it
District court the past six months.
A stalk of hay eleven feet 1--WE inches
high has been handed the Emporia Ne,cs.
Corn, fourteen and half inches long,
is the biggest yet in Washington county.
The Grand Lodge of Good Templars,
meet at Olathe on Tuesday next, Octo-
Der 9Th.
AnOsborn county farmer clsi..s thirty
bushels OF early rose potatoes froma peck
OF seed.
About 100000 worth of wheat has
been sold in Saline county already this
season.
Three hundred and sixty-fve is the
number of persons confined in the Peni-
Tertiary.
Mr.. Koony has raised 900 bushels of
onions ON three acres Oh an island in the
Raw near Wamego.
Sorghum is plenty already at so cents
per gallon, at retail, in almost every
county in the State.
Senator Ingalls, and wife celebrated
their tin wedding ON Monday evening,
at their home in Atchison.
The Topeka rolling mills have suspep
ded, and all the operatives not detained
by theiriam;lics have left for other pla.
ces.
Gov. Osborn says that the surpius
grain raised in Kansas this year, if loaded
IN cars would make a train 1,SUW miles
long.
In view of decision of the Supreme
Court, the commissioners of Morris coun-
ty have declared the herd claw in force
all over that county.
A sweet potato weighing seven pounds
and five ounces, and measuring two feet
nine inches round, is what is considered
big in Scdgwick county.
The usual cry of guard against prairie
iires," is being echoed and re-eciluel all
through our exchanges. If the farmers
don't take warning, its Lao FAULT vi the
newspapers.
Fitz o. Huntoon, son of p,.,. Joel
Huntoon, of Topeka, has successfully
passed examination at the Naval aca,ic
my ut Annapolis. lie MAS appointed b..
Congressman ". Il. Brown.
The law authorizing,a complaining
witness in State case u BE- committed
to Jail for non-paymcut of casts, mas been
decided unconstitutional by Jul &C Pey-
ton Of the 5t!, Judicial district.
II L. nston, kan., h,sa who; have no:
had ten cents u spare Tor Months, Cal.
be scen OH the street corners with sam
pies of wheat in each pocket Iaikin.
knowingly of the rise and fall OF whoa;
i'll III: eastern markets.
Says the Manhattan -Nafioaaiist "a
man started for hume from village We.
of Us, one day last week, and his horse
got into track worn by horses working
a thresliiny machine, and followed it al
night. He WAS sober enough by morning
to turR his horses head honcwafd.
Mr.. George ". Wilson. who lives :.bous
five miles west Of kinsley, has raised Il
crop of White Astraclan corn this season
which ripened the first of August. Il,
has from three to eleven ears on stalk.
one hill Of five stalks having twenty FIVE
ears.
Bancroft's Real Estate Register says:
There is field near Enlporia which has
been cropped every year for eighteen
years, without one pound of manure of
any kind being applied to it. This year
it has crop Of corn which will yield
from 60 to Is bushels 10 the acre. And
this too is some of the much abused up
land"
The Paola Spirit says: "Our citizens
complain bitterly of the fact that the
Gulf railroad charges them $40 per car
for coal from Fort Scott, while they will
switch coal on the NJ. X. & T, at this
place for $40 per car. And they carry a
car load of coal from Scott to Kansas
City for SIG, ferty.two miles further oil.
This discrimination is rather unreasona-
BILE.
Our Supreme Court has decided re.
Gently that Agricultural College Lands
are subject to taxation. Heretofore
generally these lands have not been as
sessed, or were stricken from the Assess
ment list. And this has been done in
accordance with the opinion of Attorney
General Williams, and many eminent
lawyers in the State. The agent for the
sale of these lands has always sold them
with the express understanding that they
arc not taxable until full payment was
made and title vested in purchaser. 1t
seems hardship upon those who have
invested in them with this understand
ing.
Postal News.
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