The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-12-04
STATE NEWS.

Leavenworth has three year old / ,84'
pound hog.
There are ninety-six school houses il
Montgomery county.
The Locomotive says that emigrants ar,
pouring into Norton county.
The total rainfall in Kansas for tn,
ten months Of 1875 is 24.96 inches.
The renowned revivalist Sankey, own.
land in the Pottawat0mie reserve.
The Bachelors Pleasant Hour Club O
Sebetha, have advertised calico party
A copy of the "Annals of Kansas" will
be sent to every newspaper in the State.
The loss to our State by prairie fire.
this season is estimated at million dol
lars.
Mr.. Msyhew, Of Fort Scott, is turning
out over eighty gallons Of castor oil pei
| day.
The Kansas State Grange meets a,
Emporia on the second Tuesday in De.
| cember.
Lapd buyers still continue coming into
the State. The soil of Kansas is in great
demand.
The Hiawatha folks arc moving in the
direction. by public meeting, Of fire
department.
Several farmers near Beloit lost by
prairie tire last week all their hay, grain
and some stock.
A sumner county man put up lot of
grasshoppers in cans, and he. Is now
shipping them rs sardines.
The widow Of DR.. York is writing a
history of the Bender family. DR.. York
was victim Of that family.
The Commonwealth proposes to issne a
Christmas edition that will lay in the
shade all preceding attempts in that line.
The wife of a Coffey county farmer has
marketed the past summer over 500
pounds of butter the product of thirteen
COWS.
A Clay county gentleman named Hal.
lenback has procured small herd of
buffalo, which he intends taking to the
Centennial.
A party Of Mennonites, numbering
over three hundred, passed west last
week. They locate with their brethren
in the Arkansas valley.
Kansas will elect her State Senators
next fall for four years. They will par
ticipate in the election of the successors
Of both Harvey and Ingalls,.
Not less than one hundred emigrant
wagons have passed through Burlington
in the last week, accompanied with
cattle, horses, dogs, babies and shotguns
The Winfield Telegraph says: Servis
and Meredith have thres!led over twenty
five thousand bushels of grain this season.
They are still at work. running early and
late.
According to the measurement at the
State University the amount OF rain in
October was LAG inch, which is l.35
inches below the October mean. Rain
fell on five days
Tie total numher of acres under cult.
ration i'll this State is u little over f..
100000. The total value of farm pro-
lucts this year i,sH0704l4. The value
'f live stock is S2S,Gl0,2G
The Sumner Couaty Press says: From
careful estimate. made by competent
ncn in each township We have been able
% figure up thirty thousand acres OF
wheat growing in this county.
An English company have bought
orty-five sections of land in Russell
;cnnty, between the town Of Russell and |
he Smoky river. They propose sending
tut colony from England soon.
The vote of the State, at the election
asst month, aggregated about $1,000.
This is an increase ofnearly 10, 900 over
he vote of year ago. 1t indicates a
ubstantial increase of population.
We learn from private sources, says
he Commonwealth, that there is but little
oubt hut that Enpcll Hosy. Superinten-
ent of Indian Affairs, will be removed
n very short time. and also Gibson,
he agent of the Usage Indians.
The Governor has appointed Col.
'homas Murphy, of .Atchison; Col. p.
). Plumb of Emporia; and Hon. Chas.
johnson. of Lawrence, delegates to the
National Convention of the American
'oard of Transportation and Commerce,
0 be held in Chicago on the 10Th Of De-
embcr.
The State Board Of Can vassers will not
sue certificates to those members of the
legislature voted for in the counties of
ord, Rocks, Norton, Ness. Pratt,
dwards. Kingman, Comanche and Bar.
our. The constitution provides that
ounties with less than $50 votes shall
OF he entitled to Representative.
The passage Of the herd law in a few
ew counties in this section of the State,
nd its successful application and trial.
as caused a Mount Vesuvius eruption
the fence business all over Kansas,
nd a general herd law for the State is !
;rongly demanded. Let the good cause !
lcceed and in ten years time Kansas
i'll be densely populated. --Saiinc County ! !
Du,nal. i
Since the spring Of 1872 the herd law :
rs been in force in Mitchell county, u
lys the Beloit Gazette and is endorsed i
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