The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-11-13
STATE NEWS.

The Wichita Horse Fair vas we'll at
tended.
Indians are roaming over the western
part of the state.
Fall wheat reported in good condition
all over the State.
Ottawa has shif ped a big squash to
the New York Tribune Office.
Senator Ingalls, has been sued at Atch.
ison by an Arkansas creditor.
The press of Leavenworth are cackling
ever their coming poultry show.
The Douglas county Jail is nearer being
empty than it has been for ten years.
Fort Scott boasts of a single chunk of
homemade soap, weighing 800 pounds.
J.H. Hand, farmer in Usage County
has made 5000 gallons of sorghum this
season.
A receiver has been appointed by
Judge Dillon for the Kansas and Mis-.
souri, Bridge.
A fellowship meeting commences in
Congregational Hall, NeOshO Falls, No.
vember 18th.
The government farm at Fort Leaven-
worth, yields 335 acres Of corn and 200
bushels of potatoes
Thousands Of bushels of pure salt have
been made this season in Walton town
ship, Sumner county.
The Santa Fe road earned 5000, 900
last month, the best months business
the road has ever done.
The Wichita Eagle apologies for its
statement that there was but one voter
in Kingman county. There are ten.
A. Kansas man writes back from Ore
gon to Pottawatomie county: 81 am
not homesick, but do not want to sell
my Kansas lands"
There have been ti,iity.fve car loads
of flax seed and twenty seven of castor
beans shipped from Girard since the
middle of September.
1t usually takes ITO ears of corn to
make bushel, but the ears have grown
so large this year in Kansas that fifty
average ones will weigh or measure a
bushel.
Not an intoxicated person was seen in
Fredonia during the entire day on elec-
ton day, and we have not heard that
anyone used drop of liquor for election
eering purposes.-Caisen.
Thomas Dillon. an old citizen of NeO.
sho county, on Tuesday night of last
week, rode off the abutment Of a bridge
thirty feet high and was killed. His
horse was also killed by the fall.
Says the Arkansas Traveller: "Bear
tracks are to be seen on the island at the
mouth of the Walnut. The island is
covered with dense growth of timber
and is about half section in extent"
A Kansas Girl aged fourteen has tend
ed thirty acres of corn this season. Doing
all the work usually done by man on a
farm. She is said to he andsOme. The
many specimens who fled from the Grass
hoppers last spring need not apply.
The American Bible Society has dis
tributed in Kansas since her settlement
in Bibles and Testaments, Sll,OS5.05 ;
and enough at military posts to run the
sum up to Si5, 600. The Society has re-
ceived from the State, in sales and dona-
tons S23, S0l.3l.
Gen. John A. Halderman is urging the
farmers to take position in favor Of a herd
counties in the State adopt that law, the
western counties will soon leave them
behind in the race for prosperity and
wealth. Herald.
A few days since fifty two Usage Indian
children, 43 boys and 9 girls, arrived at
Usage Mission from the Usage Agency,
|. T. in charge of Brother O'Donnell, for
the purpose of attending the Mission
schools. Nearly as many more are ex-
pected soon, with the same object in
view.
Last week boy about ten years old
named Nicholas, living at Austin about
IL miles north east of Thayer says the
Headlight on the NeOsho river, shot and
killed lad about the same age. 1t
seems young Nicholas has been in the
habit of carrying a revolver, and after
calling the other to halt deliberately
shot him without any provocation.
1t is pity when man is carried away
from earth by the use of bad whisky, an
editor is not permitted to SO announce.
1t should be q warning to Others. In a
neighboring county, few days ago, an
honorable and distinguished politician
was called to his account from excessive
use of bad liquor, and the newspapers
are saying he was model man and died
of dropsy. We suppose they get the idea
of the disease from his love of his drops.
Topeka Blade.
The Newton Kdnsan says: D. B.
Cook, of Emma township, has one of the
finest young groves and orchards upon
his farm in this county. His grove con-
sists principally of poplars which he
gathered from the banks of the Arkansas
two years ago and were then mere
switches. Nearly all of them are now
twelve or more feet high, with numerous
heavy branches and covering over several
acres of ground, furnish splendid wind
break on all sides of his house and orch.
ard, as also magnificent shade in sum-
mer time.
A flock of sheep from Wisconsin, LOO
in number, fine wooled, passed through
tho o;t, last mail bound 60. Mo.:o,,