The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-05-27
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
The State Treasury vault has new
doors, which cost $2S5. A.
1t is limited that Hon. E. G. RoY will
be the Democratic candidate for Gov.
ernor.
Specimens of growing wheat and rye
have been forwarded to Philadelphia for
exhibition.
Cattle in various parts of Washington
county are dying of a disease resembling
the e:black leg"
The 9Th semi-annual meeting of the
State Horticultural Society meets in
Olathe on the 9Th and 7th of june.
Over two hundred dogs were killed by
the City Marshal of Ottawa, between the
18th Of April, 1875, and April 18th 1876.
Col. John A. Martin, the editor of the
Atchison Champion, has been elected one
of the six Vice. Presidents of the National
Centennial Commission.
The Grand Army of the Republic will
decorate the graves of soldiers buried at
Fort LeavenwOrth, with flags, at sunrise
on the morning of the 3Oth inst.
The people of Cottonwood Falls have
commenced o raid on the saloons of that
place, to test the length. breadth and
depth of their license ordinance.
The Leavenworth Timessays: "a great
many Of the farmers in this county are
taking active steps toward going extern
sively into the culture of grapes"
The Manhattan Lndustrialist, in series
of papers on sheep raising, recommends
the ordinary Missouri eve or the grade
Merino as the foundation of the flock.
Elk river rose p feet in eleven hours,
during the recent rise, according to the
Elk Falls Ledger, and the destruction Of
property was by no means inconsiderable.
The Marysville News gives warning to
delinquent subscribers by citing the fact
that a man vas recently tarred and
feathered who owed four dollars to a
newspaper.
The Walnut Valley Times counts up
ffty-three newspapers in the State which
have signified their willingness to sup
port D. w. Wilder for reelection to the
Office of State Auditor.
The Winfield Telegram says: ave
learn that those of our citizens WHO
started for the Black Hills, few weeks
ago, are on their way home. They got
scared at the Indians, and thought they
valued their scalps more than Black
Hills gold.
A house built of chalk is the novelty
at TregO. The material - prepared
with saw, and the effect is said to be
pleasing to the eye. The Hays Sentinel
says the house has a very handsome ap.
and that vast beds of chalk of
50 per cent purity exist in that section.
The prospects of more than average
crops this season are very fattering. 1t
appears that the late frosts did not have
such disastrous effects on the peach and
other fruit buds as was feared, and from |
all sections we have the most cheering
of good crops and plenty Of
fruit.
An amusing and apropos circumstance
on Thursday, as the "Great un-
we're vending their way up
Kansas Avenue to the Capitol. A darkey
boy walked along with them. bearing
with the inscription /:
''Warm baths, only IS cents !"-Topeka
Blade. ..
The Mcpherson Independent says: The
County Commissioners have taken in
hand the subject of getting up history
If Mcpherson county, from its earliest
history to the present time, and parties
rom different parts of the county are re-
,uested to send in any items they may
now of, to NJ. P. Simpson, for that pur-
pose.
The Wilson County Citizen has the fol-
owing: "a yearling heifer belonging
o Samuel Hill, of Prairie township,
hat had been bitten by rabid dog not
ong ago went mad and had to be shot.
When in this condition and Just before
,eing killed, the animal pursued George
,hafer and forced him to climb tree.
t is stated that cattle, when under the
lydrophobia spell, paw the ground, bel
ow in frenzied agony. horn at all sorts
# objects, and otherwise give evidence
# madness"