The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-07-10
STATE NEWS.
Topeka claims 1900 people.

Topeka claims I, 200 people.
Clay county has about 1000 inhabi
tants.
Shawnee county has a ], 300 acre corr
patch.
Wichita has sent to market 100, zoo
head of wintered cattle.
Ten veterans of 1912 in Douglas coun.
ty,iSO years old.
The market price for wild cats in Linn
county is 81 apiece.
The Chase County Corant suggests
the name Of George Martin for Governor.
The next report of the State Board Of
Agriculture will be the best ever pub
lished.
Six horse thieves were recently hung
by a vigilance committee in Sumner
county.
From the 18th till the 18th of June
81, 100000 bushels of grassboppers left
Kansas.
One township in Howard county has
one hundred and sixty dogs, aud eighty
five sheep.
Capt Allen, pension agent at Topeka
paid out to pensioners during the past
month over 500, 900.
Seventy-four school districts in Leav-
enworth county, outside of the city, en-
ploy ninety teachers.
A Sweed at Fort Leavenworth has
discovered that the Cheyenne language
is similar to Swedish.
The Fourth of July was generally eel.
ebrated throughout the State The bird
is completely plucked.
Beloit has overshadowed Salina in the
gold business. The Blue Hills, near
Beloit just teens with it.
Woodson county assessments foots up
S1,222, 296, as follows: personal property,
S226, 100 real estate 1895, 521.
They are going to try hat-boating
wheat down the Walnut from Arkansas
City to the head of navigation.
The convicts at the State Peniten>
tiary celebrated the Fourth on Saturday
last, in regular old-fashioned style.
The hunters throughout Dickinson
county propose to form league and
pledge themselves not to shoot any quail
next season.
Counties in Kansas less than five years
old will export half a million bushels Of
wheat, and several counties will pro-
duce million bushels.
The first wheat threshed this year in
Montgomery county yielded thirty
bushels to the acre and sold for one dol
lar and five cents per bushel.
The Junction Union tells of minister
who speculates frequently in real estate
that he recently took his text from 'lst
Timothy, section Is, township a south,
range west"
The Topeka Commonwealth thinks that
the famous expression "tickle Kansas
with hoe and she laughs with har-
vest" hardly applies. This year Kansas
will absolutely lie down and roll over
with harvest.
The annual payment OF the govern
ment to the Miami tribe of Indians was
made at Baxter Springs, on Monday of
last week. 1t required $4,000 to make
the payment, each member Of the tr...tc
receiving sixty dollars.
Here is the way they vote at Usage
City for county seat, according to the
Burlingame Chronicle: At 1850 the fell
lows face was painted with yellow ochre,
and his name was Smith at 1880 it was
disguised with coal dust, and his name
was Jones; at $50 his face was washed
and his name was Brown.
Mrs. W. J. Roberts is the owner of
quilt in this city which is made of calico
which at the present writing is one hun
bred years old it is figured as all other
things of those days were 1--WE suppose),
and the figures are seemingly as plain as
when first made, and the cloth is perfect
in every way. Who can beat that p
En,poria Ners.