The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-11-06
STATE NEWS,

| Wichita handles 1000 sacks of -four
per week.
Governor Osborne has Just passed his
39th birthday.
The Smith county docket is composed
chiefly of divorce suits.
About forty car loads of coal are chip
ped from Fort Scott daily.
Quaker ladies are preaching in the
Kansas state peniteutiary.
Buffaloes are reported in Ness county
and on the upper Walnut.
The third edition of the Kansas Cook
Book is about ready for sale.
Neosho county has q suit against its
county clerk to recover $4,000.
A Leavenworth sportsman recently
brought in ~ ducks for one days work.
Mrs. Browne has been preaching accep
tally at st. George, Pottawatomie coun.
ty.
A herd of 175 head of cattle in Doug.
las county will average LOO pounds
each.
Keep your eyes open, and revolvers
loaded for horse thieves. They are
about.
A prairie fire in Sedgwick county, Sun
day week ago, destroyed $4,000 worth
of property.
Heavy prairie fires on the Cottonwood
south of the Falls, are mentioned by the
Emporia papers.
Heavy white frosts and clear, cool days
was the order of things in Western Kan.
sas last week.
Gen. Carr has recommended the re
moval of the officers quarters and stables
from Harker to Hays.
Probate Judge Dickinson, of Hiawa
tina, last week refused marriage license
to a couple of first cousins.
The editor of the Neodesha Free Pres
is quite ill, and the suspension Of the
Press is announced until he RECEIVERS
An old pair in Labette county have
made 1000 gallons of sorghum, and have
enough cane left to make 700 gallons
more.
The king-bee man of Atchison county
has $500 pounds o. honey. He says
bees have done remarkably we'll this
season.
1t is estimated that the proportion OF
births to that of deaths in Kansas since
its organization, to be about ten births
to one death.
The celebrated Doc Holmes, who was
sentenced to the penitentiary for robbing
the Wichita postOffice, has been released
on habeas corpus.
A man in Eureka stole sixty cent
jack knife. The cost of proving it on
him has already amounted to 500 and
still the case goes on.
A Wichita law student in the Office Of
Adams, English & Ruggles. is missing.
He was Il bashful youth and forgot to
turn over some collections before he
mizzled.
Chas. F. Rooster and the family of
Hon. Frank Schmidt, of Marysvi!le, will
spend the summer in Philadelphia, in
tending to furnish cottage and live at
home while there.
We met a person yesterday who said
he did not like Kansas because nothing
would bring nothing and next year may
be they would raise nothing, nobody
would have nothing to buy nothing with. "
In debate in the Dread society of the
State University the other night, Mr..
Hugh Richards developed plan for set
Ting the Indian question. 1t was to
hang every Indian over twenty one years
of age.
A prairie fire on Dow creek, Lyon
county, destroyed one hundred and
fifty tons of hay and injured some stand
ing corn. A laborer was burning a fire
guard around the hay. aud it got the
best Of him.
VIM. Bowers, of Lincoln township,
Sedgwich county, went down into well
to Recover bucket. Thirty feetOf the
curbing tell in on him, and it was six
hours before he could be extricated, yet
he had no bones broken and soon recOv-
cred.
Three men who recently went down
the Arkansas river from Arkansas City
to Van Buren,, Arkansas, in a fiat boat
say that with but little expense the Ar.
kansas can be made navigable from Ar
kansas City to Van Buren, which we very
much doubt.
Deputy U. 8. Marshal Smith of Wich-
ita, was out last week in Kingman coun-
ty, trying to serve papers on its officers.
Late one evening he struck the print
tive domicile of an adventurous rooster
who said he had been in the county long
enough to vote, but As yet had found
none Of his neighbors. He was just the
man, and the meat that the United
States Marshal was in pursuit of, and he
forthwith pulled his papers and proceeded
to read. One can better imagine than
describe the feelings of that poor, lone
settler. out there upon the confines of
that eternal solitude, when informed that
he was held for the entire Indebtedness of
the said Kingman county, which amour
ted to about $60, 600 in bonds besides in
terest.