The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-04-17
STATE NEWS.


fields of broom corn this year.
Several saloons flourish at Seneca, not
withstanding the license is $500.
The State Board of Agriculture have
decided not to hold fair this year.
The Grand Lodge of tn e Knights of
Pythias met at Olathe last Tuesday.
Kansas has received about eight thou
sand Mennonites during the winter.
Kansas is not likely to suffer for fax
seed pOultices or castor oil next year.
The Manhattan Nationalist will print
Geo. A. Crawford's address next issue.
Our exchanges have much to say about
prairie fires destroying fences, hay, etc.
Ten or dozen houses are to be built
on Mission creek, Marshall county, this
season.
Mr.. Sweat has been elected mayor of
Sedgwick City. He will make it warm
for them.
Congressman Brown and Gov. Osborn
went to Galveston, Texas, with the Kan
sas editors.
Parties have been looking for a loca-
ton for colony of Pennsylvanians near
Fort Larned.
They had an angelic contest for mayor
in Parsons, in which DR.. Gabriel beat
Angel Mathewson.
On the 10th day of April the Wathena
Reporter commenced the eleventh volume
of its useful existence.
The Topeka Times will discard the
patent outside shortly to make room for
"homc advertisements"
The entire Republican city ticket of
Fort Scott was elected with but one
exception, that of Mayor.
The coming summer, from all indica-
tons will be glorious one for the indus
triOus farmers of Kansas.
The Minneapolis Independent says there
has been more wheat sown in Ottawa
county than ever before.
The Gulf road has bought large sup
ply of cotton seed for the use of farmers
along the line In southern Kansas.
Last Sunday morning, Geo. Langdon's
dwelling, four miles east of Centralia,
was destroyed by fire. Loss, $500.
The Lawrence journal thinks it
"cheek" in the Kansas editors adjourning
to Independendence Hall, Philadelphia.
Hon. S. A. Cobb denounces the stories
lately circulated about Congressman
Phillips drunkenness, as Outrageous
lies"
Quite large area of land in Sumner
county has been sown to oats, and the
prospect for early feed is therefore fat
tering.
A belief is common along the line of
state that four mile shaving is to be
taken from the Indian territory and CIV
en- to Kansas.
At Oswego, Mrs. T. S. Leonard has
sued ii. Canning, saloon keeper, for
selling liquor to her husband, fixing
damages at $4,000.
A splendid new quarter is about to be
added to Berlin, whose streets will all be
named after Germany's most eloquent
musical celebrities.
Samuel Jerome, of Atchison, one of
the pioneer horsemen in the west, and
senior member of the firm of Jerome &
Grail, died of apaplexy on the 10Th in
slant.
Frank Farwell, Esq, ofGuilford town.
ship, Wilson county, says there is being
more ground planted this spring than any
other since he came to this country, in
1868.
G. W. Shannon, of Verdigris township,
Wilson county, lost by prairie fire
week before last $500 rails, two steers,
two barns, several tons of hay and lot
of lumber.
Col. Fred Grant deserves mention for
having accomplished something which
ADLER and better men than he have failed
to do. He has insulted a reporter of the
Chicago Times.
There will be convention of the mil
lers of Central Kansas held at Junction
City on the third Tuesday in April. A
large number of mills will be represented
on that occasion.
The Fort Scott Sentinel and Pioneer
says there has been delivered from that
city to the farmers nearly three thousand
bushels of fax seed this spring sufficient
to seed about five thousand acres.
1t took considerable whisky to run the
city election at Girard, and as a result
some fellows set the calabOOse on fire at
night. Men who will attempt to destroy
their own home in this way ought to be
ot.-Commonweath.
Mr.. Bowman, living west of Independ-
seed from brother in Mississippi. The
seed are about half the size of the COM
mon, yield more and mature two weeks |
earlier The lint is also much finer and |
larger prices.
The Editor of the Hutchinson Neus,
who had occasion to 90 into the country.
says wheat and oats look we'll in Reno |
county, and the amount Of corn ground
broken is evidence that the farmers have
been improving the good weather in a
way that hungry grasshopper will most
appreciate.
Mr.. John Salter, of Rock township.
cowley county, is doing very much for
he good of the county in the wsy of
stock growing. He has about nine hun.
lred sheep of the Merino breed, and is
striving to establish the fact
that sheep may as well be raised and
sept in Kansas as elsewhere. His only
,indrance to success is dogs. |.