The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-07-17
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
Intemperance in Labette county costs
10000 per annum.
Dickinson county farmers are to have
a harvest home pic mic July 20.
The Wyandotte Gazette also endorses
George A. Crawford for Governor.
The nearest way to the average juno
ton City girls heart is gum drops.
Three boys confined in the Atchison
Jail for stealing escaped one day this
week.
The Troy Republican has ceased to ex-
list. The material was purchased by the
Chief.
Five Atchison saloons refused to take
out license on the Sth, and shut up on
the 9th.
The Topeka city council has appropri-
ated $1,000 to help pay for the new in
sane asylum site.
The Good Templar lodge at Jackson
vile NeOsho county, has one hundred
and twenty members.
A burglar broke into the Garnet So
cial club rooms and got away with all
the whisky and cigars.
More boys have been drowned in the
Missouri river at Leayenworth this year
than any previous year.
The Independence Tribune thinks that
next month will be hard OH gate hinges
it will have two moons.
The wheat yield of Butler, Cowley,
Sumner and Sc,lgwick counties is csti-
mated at 3,2J0,O00 bushels.
There arc fattering prospects of a
large increase of students at the Agri-
cultural College next term.
The Governor has appointed A. F.
Waugh probate judge of Mcpherson
county, vice Underwood resigned.
The City Council of Girard offer their
public square for pasture for young
calves at ten cents per head per week.
John Gilmore, of the Fredonia Citizen,
is in town this week, looking well. He
says Wilson is the banner county for
crops.-Emporia Ne'cs.
The libel suit of Nelson Abbott. of the
AtchisOn Patriot, VS. Roberts of the Us
kaloosa Independent, has been dismissed
for want of prosecution.
The Topeka Commonwealth says that
the railroads of Kansas have agreed to
pay $1,000 toward erecting the Kansas
Centennial building at Philadelphia.
Bunker Hill, Kansas, has a brick-saw-
ing machine in full blast, capable of
turning out one thousand bricks per day,
from the soft magnesium limestone.
A Harvey county farmer raised 1914
stalks of good wheat in one stool and
from one grain, and yet people east will
continue to dodge stumps AID roll rocks
out of the way to exc oat n farm living.
! One of the editorial excursionists de-
scribcs Kansas people as follows: "Well
clothed, neat, clean and tidy, as u rule.
No great louis, running about with one
suspen,!cr, ragged shoes and tangled hair
as long rs horses NAME"
Tie Kingsley Reporter says that a
/ Pennsylvania has been TO that place,
and that he has located a colony from
his state. lie takes 1000 acres in Paw
nee county and thinks he will take from
800 to 1900 acres in Edwards county.
A lively mill took place about five
miles southwest of Ottawa. II appears
| that certain man out there has been de-
| flaming the character. of lady without
grounds, and last Monday, whilst he was
at work on the raod, she came for him
and grabbing him by the whiskers, gave
him thorough horsewhipping.
A couple of weeks ago Mr. Winkler Of
| Fancy creek sold about Il thousand dol
lars worth of Wool to Leavenworth
house. 1t was brought to this place by
couple Of two horse wagons. Now the
question in agricultural arithmetic is
''How many wagon loads of twenty cent
corn it would take to come to that
amount of money.-Nationalist.
The Wilson County Citizen gives an
account of tooth which was found near
Fredonia. 1t weighs twelve pounds, is
eight inches fore and aft" as the sal
lor would say, and will average about
six inches in height. In thickness it is
two and half to three inches. 1t is q
right upper molar tooth. The enameled
ridges on the bottom are perfectly pre-
served and have Il natural appearance.
The Walnut Valley Times says friend
concluded to have a cheap Fourth of July
celebration He took flag Borrowed, J
six bottles Of Younger's ale, wheelbar.
row, and proceeded to the grove east Of
town. He tied the flag to maple bush,
drank his ale in peace and laid down on