The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-05-22
STATE NEWS.

for selling liquor to her husband.
OF nine newspapers published in Sum-
ner county, eight have died in spite of
everything that skill could suggest.
Mr.. J. E. Comfort has been associated
with the Thayer Headlight. We hope
Ewing will find him great Comfort.
The A., T.. as. F. Railroad has sued
Rock creek township, Jefferson county,
on the $4,000 bonds voted in its aid.
Butler county was named in honor of
A. P. Butler, of Mississippi, and not OF
BENZ. F. as might naturally be supposed.
Mr.. Nicholay, formerly private secre-
tary to President Lincoln, is mixing in
the county seat fight in Usage County.
A petri6ed fish twelve inches long,
and from four to six inches around was
recently found in stone quarry in Lin
coin county.
Red Cloud says he's always ready to
smoke the pipe of peace with his pale
faced brethren, if they'll only furnish
a little better tobacco.
By the 18th of August at which, date
the new building is to be finished, the
State Agricultural College will accomO-
date three hundred students.
J. C. Walker, of Halstead township,
sends the Newton Kdnsan q "stooP' of
winter wheat, of 80 stalks, which he
claims grew from one grain Of wheat.
And now tree man in Brown county
says that all his trees protected by n
wind break are dead, while those which
did not have such protection are alive.
Two Emporia capitalists have arranged
with the Indians in the Indian territory
to pay them a royalty for the privilege
of cutting black walnut timber, which
they propose to ship.
Col. Martin, editor of the Atchison
Champion, lett Monday for Philadelphia,
to meet with the board of Centennial
Managers, of which he is the member
from Kansas. He will be absent about
two weeks.
The faculty of the State University
have. signified their disapproval of the
usual commencement ball at the cOnclu-
sion of the exercise this year, and a. ball
will be given by the graduating class at
Liberty Hall.
Speaking of Ida Greeley's husband, v.
Nicholas Smith. the Troy Chief says ::
Smith used to be the laughing-stock of
Kansas. He was the biggest educated
fool in the State. He used to oil his hair
and put on kid gloves to spit.
Leavenworth Times: Elk Senator
Pomeroy, it is said. is making arrange
ments to settle in Kansas, for the pur-
pose of entering the canvass for United
States Senator to succeed Harvey, whose
term of service expires March third, 1877.
According to the late report of the
State Board of Agriculture, the average
annual rainfall in Kansas is % inches.
In eastern Kansas the average is 80 inch.
es, in central Kansas 20, an in western
Kansas 10 inches, dividing the State in
belts from north to south.
The grand jury of Greenwood county
cost only $3.50 and found seventeen in
dictments for selling liquor, fourteen for
gambling, four for larceny, one for keep
ing a gambling house, one for resisting
an officer, and one for assault with intent
to kill, so the Eureka Herald says.
Speaking of the sale of the State Rec
ord to the Commonwealth, the Topeka
Democrat uses this language to the
middle men" in politics:
"The Record was a reformer. The
preparation for the comig campaign by
Democrats and Republicans will leave no
room for independent reformers. They
stand between two fires, victims of both
sides, and liable to be crushed by the ap-
preaching combatants."