The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-04-29
STATE NEWS.
jefferson county has . 2a6 pound woman.

Jef1erson county has 226 pound woman
Couucil Grove has q Union Suuda,
school sixtee0 years old.
Kansas pays over eight million of dol
lars whisky, annually.
The Ceaeyville Courier says that Claim,
jumping is lively on the coded lands.
The effort to organize Greenback
party in Usage county has proved 4 fail
ure. -
Washington township, Wabsunses
cosaty, will soon vote on q night herd
Law.
Hutchinson will soon have an agricul
tural implement factory, and a planning
mill.
Two physicians have left Fredonia fol
Illinois. They say Kansas is too healthy
for them.
If the Beloit Gazette figures correctly
there is not more profitable crop than
! broom corn.
The Emporia Ne,es suggests Hon. VIM
Martindale, of Greenwood county, fol
Lieutenant-GO Governor.
A Kansas paper wants some Of it.
subscribers to say 'IOwa man" every
morning before breakfast.
People are beginning to move in vari.
Gus parts of the State for Centennial
Fourth of July Celebrations.
The Attorney General says the dog law
puzzles him. He is not able to make
anything ineligible out of it.
All the express messengers on the
Leavenworth Lawrence and Galveston
railroad carry revolvers while on duty.
The Supreme Court has confirmed the
decision Of the District Court in favor of
Lyndon Is the county seat of Usage
county.
The Lawrence Journal says that the
wife of Mr.. Burton, OF the Journal bin
derry, was an own cousin of the late A. T..
Stewart.
As soon as the city prisoners at Inde-
pendence learned that q chain gang was
to be organized they paid up and got
their liberty.
The Fort Scott Monitor says that Maj.
Powell is making 4 trip through Kansas
for the purpose of preparing brief arti-
Gle descriptive of the State.
The entire State of Kansas has been
surveyed by the General Government,
and the Surveyor Generals Office was
discontinued on the first Of April.
Let western county treasurer be seen
ut a depot about train time, and forty
men will have an eye on him, and will
wonder how much he has stolen.
The State Teachers Institute for the
second judicial district will he held at
WamegO, PottawatOmie county on the
10th, 18th, 18th and 10Th Of May.
A correspondent of the Chetopa Herald
says the farmers would plant fifty per
cent. more flax if they had the assurance
of a successful thrasher that would
thrash and clean the seed.
L,uisburgh township, Montgomery
county, has a citizen who worries along
through life with the name, John Ran
doldp Stephen Decatur kelley-and he
is an ordinary farmer, too.
The proprietors OF Adams addition to-
Larned have had a strip plOwed around
each block and are now getting on the
ground $4,000 forest trees to Sc: out on
the borders of blocks thus plowed.
Wilbur s. Ward, ,one Of the last years
graduates of the Concordia normal school
has gone to Philadelphia to take posi-
ton on the Centennial police force now
organizing. That makes three Kansas
men on that force.
The Usage City Free Press objects to a
proposed candidate for Congress in the
Third District, on the ground of "too
much hair" and says the people of that
district "can't trust their destinies in the
hands of man who wears hair q foot
long"
Sol Miller says: "Whatever may be
said of Mrs. Belknap's small feet, it can
not be denied that, by means of transac-
tions which have resulted in killing off
at least half dozen Democratic candi.
dates for the Presidency, she accomplish
ed great feat"
The Concordia Empire understands
that from the sheep flock of Mr.. Joseph
Hostetter, whose farm is two and half
miles northwest of Glasgo, the winters
product (from January l, to about
March 2O,) of lambs was 127. Of this
number but three have died.
1t is reported that farmer named
Nicholas, living near Stanley, johnson
county Kansas, while engaged in blowing
few days sgo, turned up what he at
first supposed to be peculiar stone, but
on examination proved to be a very good
quality of lead ore, of which there was a
large surface deposit.
1t is our solemn conviction after wad
ing through cord of newspapers, that
Kansas is the best country in the world,
that we have the richest soil, the biggest
crops, the best water power, the finest
climate, handsomest women, prettiest
girls, smartest men and meanest politi-
clans to be found anywhere.-Junstioa
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