The Iola register., 1876-04-08
STATE NEWS.

Farmers say the recent snow was good
for the wheat.
Butler county has new postoffice
called Hepsidam.
The State Penitentiary turns out four
hundred pairs Of shoes daily.
The March winds have ceased to blow,
but the tree pedlar has not.
Arkansas City is to own half interest
in a boat on the Arkansas river.
The Wichita Beacon has again changed
hands, and is now run by Smith & White.
There are two thousand one hundred
and thirty.four miles of railroad in the
State.
1t takes a minute and five seconds to
raise a box of coal at the Leavenworth
shaft-70O feet.
Kansas will be shown by a map at
Philadelphia twelve feet wide and twen-
ty-four feet long.
The State school fund amounts this
year to so cents per. scholar-ten per
cent. less than last year.
1t is estimated that at least forty thou
sand acres of prairie will be broken In
Dickinson county this summer.
Wichita has petrifed stump two and
one-half t long, one foot thick, weigh
ing about two hundred pounds. 8
Extending the railroad west from In
dependence to Arkansas City is being
much talked of now by those interested.
There are said to be 25s,O 900 Texas cat
tie on the drive for Kansas this year.
The supply down there does not seem to
give out.
A Topeka grocer was telling a news
paper man that it was simply throwing
away money to advertise when the sher-
if came in and shut up the store.
The Supreme Court of Kansas has
decided that a druggist cannot law
fully sell intoxicating liquors, even for
medicinal purposes, without license.
Sulphur Springs postoffice, Cloud coun-
ty, was so called because OF the existence
of a very large sulphur spring on the
farm of Mr.. Frazier, the postmaster.
There are 6,626 Presbyterians, AIS
Congregationalists, 12,l 1877 Baptists, 1913
United Presbyterians, 1,l36 Epicopa-
lians, 800 Universalists, and 22,596 Meth
odists in Kansas.
While fighting a fire set out to burn
a new fence row, Mr.. A. L. Curtis, of
Pottawatomie county, was severely
burned, besides losing large quantity
of hay, corn, oats, etc.
The Ransaa thinks the lawyers at In
dependence can furnish from their own
number, candidates for most of the State
offices, and then have enough left to do
all the legal business OF the county.
The contract price for erecting the
Kansas building at Philadelphia, is ten
housand dollars. OF this amount Colo
tado pays 81, 500 and the Atchison, Tope.
ka & Santa Fe Railroad pays 81, 900.
A correspondent of the Oswego lade-
pendent thinks the raising of flax in Kan
sas will be INDUCED in only by few
until linen factories are established In
the State to make a market for the lint.
BY the provisions of an act passed by
our Legislature, taking effect March 9,
it is provided that no school district shall
be formed or created unless there are
fifteen children within its boundaries of
school age.
1t is stated that within half-hour of
the decease of Justice John Smith of Erie,
last week, a wide-awake citizen of that
place was circulating a petition to the
Governor, to be appointed his successor.
So says the Usage Mission Journal.
The Chatauqua Journal says: Sedan
seems to be an asylum for cripples. We
have, either living here, or in town fire.
quently, five persons whose feet have
been frozen off, four who have but one
arm each, four who are lame or who have
lost leg, and two who are hunchbacks.