The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-05-08
STATE NEWS.


The Casorial is the name of ne,
paper published in Elk county.
Probate Judge Stivers, of Wilson cour
ty, took bull calf in payment Of mai
raige fee.
]. B. Lucas, youRg farmer of John
sou county, is planting 500 acres of corn
this Spring.
The Lawrence street railway has beef
sold by the sheriff, on the foreclosure o
mortgage.
The Beloit Gazette and Cawker Cit,
Tribune are making war on those merch
ants who sent job work east.
The annual meeting of the State Med
ical Society will be held at Topeka, com
mencing Wednesday, May 18th.
John Gilmore has erected q new col
umn of items in the FredOnia Citizen
headed "Our Corner of the State"
Rumor has it that the notorious james
and Younger Brothers have been residing
in Weir City for the past Winter.
One hundred students have been en-
rolled at the ConcOrdia Normal SchOO
for this year, which is good showing.
Mr.. G. d. Baker retires from the Stat.
Re,ord this week, having sold his interest
therein to his partner, Mr.. s. D. Macdon
aid.
Prof. N. B. Norton has accepted a po
sition in the State Normal School of Cal.
ifornia, and will leave Kansas in June
next.
Farmers in the southern part of the
State are going into the sheep-raising
business more extensively than hereto
fore. Sensible.
The Ellsworth Reporter is confident that
the Texas cattle 'drive" will amount to
100000 head, and that Ellsworth will
catch the most of the trade.
A vigilance committee has been
formed in Montgomery county to protect
the honest portion of the community
from the depredations of horse thieves.
Wild geese are feeding upon the wheat
fields of the Arkansas valley, greatly to
the displeasure of the farmers who prefer
choosing the stock they have to pasture.
Accounts from all parts of Kansas say
that but little damage thas been done by
the frost last Saturday night. The wheat
crop has not been injured anywhere in
the State.
Anthony, of the Leavenworth Times
was prominent while on the excursion.
He was only a Colonel when he started
but now the Houston Telegraph calls him
General"
Mr.. Sharpe, the publisher of the Otta-
wa Republican, has purchased the Times
of that place. and consolidated it with
the Republican. This will leave Ottawa
with but one paper.
The Leavenworth Times asks: evil
preach?" Perhaps the editor
don't know how it is to 60 down town
night and come home without
them hair pins. "-Cofeyrille Courier.
We learn that a general jobbing ma
chine shop and foundry is about to be
established in this city. There is room
here for such an enterprise now, since
The burning of the Kaw Valley works
md the stealing of the Bridge Shops
nachinery.-To Topeka Blade.
The steamboat, St. Luke. bound from
Leavenworth to st. Louis ran against a
,ier in the bridge at st. Charles, Mo-.
bout ten o'clock Sunday night, and
damaged her so that she sunk on a bar |
wo miles below. the water coming up to
Ter hurricane deck. 1t is thought five
n six persons were drowned the balance |
ook refuge on the hurricane deck, from
where they were taken next morning by !
mother boat.
Mayor Anderson's Arbor Day idea is
reating a perfect furore all over the
ountry. The Leavenworth Times, in an
!rticle on the subject, says:
The Mayor of Topeka first adopted this
dea, and it has been generally endorsed
throughout the country. The grounds
f the State Capitol building looked
cry desolate, heretofore, but when the
rees planted last month grow, the ap-
earance will be greatly improved. Now
ct the people of this county take hold
efore it is too late, let the second Mon
ay in May be proclaimed "Arbor Day."
nd see if we cannot convert our Court
louise square into shady, cheerful look
ng block.
Our readers have noticed in the tele-
raphic dispatches lately, accounts of re-
urning emigrants from California. We
NV letter recently from Gen. Deitzler
] San Francisco, in which he says that
ardly a day passes without bringing to
is Office one or more impecunious emil
rants Many arrive in San Francisco,
'ithout dollar, and as labor is scarce
ley have hard time of it. He says
ne streets are full of idle men seeking
ut finding no employment, SO that it is
citing to be a serious question what to
o with them. The grain crop will be
tort and the fruit crop shorter, on &C.
,unt of drouth and frost, and the out
'ok is not at all promising for new COM
journal.
Stay in Kansas. fany man of enter 6
rise and industry contemplates leaving I
ansas, he will certainly do we'll to re-
,nsider any such notion. Those who
ave and 60 elsewhere will certainly
se time and money and be glad in the
I'd, four times out of five, to get back. I
ter their wanderings and expense, and !
title down here to business of some kind. :
erhaps no State in the Union offers any !
,tter inducements to the immigrant, or =
yes fsirer promises to those already
pom the soil, than Kansas. Here men
i've made fortunes in agriculture, in S