The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-10-30
STATE NEWS.

The Odd Fellows will meet next year
at Wichita.
Saline county farmers have collected
s., 600 for broom corn.
Gate receipts of the Leavenworth
horse fair were $1,000.
Barton county has already shipped
100, 900 bushels of wheat.
Manhattan men when they come out
Of a saloon, look one way and 60 another.
No nominations in Cofey county.
They all run as independent candidates
up that way.
Mr.. Scoville, of Cherokee county has
ten acres of cotton, which will yield q
bale to the acre.
About twenty wagon loads per day is
the tune of the emigrant train that rolls
through Valley Falls.
The twenty-five thousand acres sown
to winter wheat in Butler county this
fail, is in splendid condition.
Congressman Philips, now at his home
in Salina, is said to be fast gaining in
health, and able to be out on the streets.
The Republican nominees for the Le-
gislature in LeavenwOrth city are j. +.
Legate, Robert Crozier and H. NJ. Aller.
A Harvey county boy inserted four of
his fingers in cane mill last week with
out doing any particular damage to the
mill.
The Patrons of Husbandry own over
one hundred elevators and warehouses
west of the Mississippi. About a dozen
are in Kansas.
The Minneapolis Sentinel says: "The
herd law is making Ottawa county rich
and populous, and now no one here
would do without it,.
Judge Perkins sentenced five men at
the close of the Montgomery county
court recently. One of the criminals
goes up for seven years.
A sweet potato weighing seven pounds
and nine ounces, and measuring two feet
nine inches around, is what is considered
big in Sedgwick county.
Kaw Indians are over-running Win
field. They subsist by swapping, beg
cling and masticating old boots and shoes,
lying around the outskirts of the village.
The Sheriff of Labette county is in re-
ceipt of a letter from Salmon City, ldado
Territory, which satisfies him that old
Bender committed suicide in that place
last August.
A very destructive prairie fire in Ma.
rion county destroyed an immense
amount of property last week. 1t is
stated that the fire was started by Rus
slams to see it burn.
The Lawrence Grange store has sold
this year, six tons of butter and about
$50, 900 worth of goods. The Emporia
store sells about $50, 900 worth of goods.
grain, and implements per year.
The Osborne County Farmer says: A
prairie fire on Wolf creek last Saturday,
burned out two men. just over in the
edge of Russell county. Take warning,
you farmers who are not prepared, you
are taking fools risk.
IcpOOneT, OuCe tHc ldhOuS cuilOI VI thS
Garnett P'dindeHler, is now in New York
city, supporting himself and family in
regal splendor on a salary of $500 per
week. This is striking instance where
the young man should have remained
West and grown up with the county
BWiingamc Chronicle.
VIM. Bond, a farmer residing in WASH
ington county, recently lost span Of
horses by accident. He was going home
from Hanover, and it being dark he per-
mitted the horses TO choose their own
way, and consequently they left the road
and fell into an old we'll. Before assist.
ance could arrive they were both dead.
The Lawrence Journal says: "The
point that has been raised by some of
the legal fraternity to the effect that the
adoption of the amendments would pre-
vent session of the Legislature next
winter does not seem to carry much
weight with it. The opinion of the best
legal minds is decidedly in accord with
that of Hon. T. P. Fenlon, of Leaven
worth"