The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-11-02

THE lola REGISTER.
Published Every Saturday.
lola. !: KANSAS.
STATE NEWS.
THE plan Of reorganization Just adopted
by the bondholders Of the Denver Extension
Of the Kansas Pacific Railway provides that
upon foreclosure and reorganization .
new mortgage of S25, 000, 600 shall be issued,
to be secured by the entire property Of the
Kansas Pacific Road. About s., 900 Of
the new mortgage bonds are TO be issued to
meet in full the Denver Extension bonds
principle and funded interest. New bonds
are also issued to meet the expenses Of the
reorganization, and for the unsubordinated
income-bonds should they hereafter be deci.
ded to be lien priorto the Denver Extension
mortgage. The plan provides also for an as
sumption Of the Leayenworth Branch bonds
in case the bondholders foreclose and unite
with the Denver Extension committee. The
remainder Of the S25, OOO, 900 bonds is to be
issued only as money may be needed to pay
off the first liens on the eastern and middle
divisions, and the claims of the United States
Government. The annual interest to be met
is estimated at about 1851 900. For the I'M
funded interest payment, new 6per cent. in
come bonds are to be issued, with provis-
ion for a sinking fund. The 5000, 600 acres of
land belonging to the Kansas Pacific Road
are to be reserved to protect the holders Of
the Denver Extension bonds. The junior
security holders, while not entirely ignored,
are reminded that "any allowance made to
them will depend entirely upon their be-
havior, good or bad" The contemplated
issue of new bends, principal and accrued
interest, under the plan of reorganization,
is given as follows:
Six per cent bones, Eastern Division S2,37l 900
Six per cent. bonds, Middle Division $3.50
Six per cent. interest certificates,
Denver extension .................. 901 954
Six per cent. consolidated bonds... 1862 900
Abolute interest changes............ eel ,23l
Total..... .sls, o7s. sss
SOMETHING of a sensation was caused at
Topeka, on the 25th, by the arrest Of color
ed man who had been keeping a white girl
as his wife. The irate father Of the girl
swore out the warrant. She didn't want to
leave her Othello. He was held to await
trial.
Mr.. A. B. MCQUEEN, painter, was very
seriously injured at Atchison. on the Path.
by falling from ascaffold, while painting at
the residence of George T. Challis, Esq.
FROM the report of the Commissioner of
Agriculture for 1877, the following fucts are
Cleaned concerning Kansas: In the pro-
duction of corn, Kansas ranked as the sixth
State in 1876 and in 1877 as the fourth, having
passed above Ohio and Indiana; yield, S97,.
SOC, 1000 bushels, valued at 500, 769, 600. In the
average yields Of corn per acre, only one
corn. producing State, Nebraska, reports q
larger average than Kansas. The yield per
acre in Kansas is given at 36.5
bushels; Nebraska, 80. OF wheat
Kansas produced, in 1877, 14,4OO,-
0GO bushels, valued at ST, SOS, 600. The crop
was partial failure, and the average yield,
145 bushels per acre, was not up to the
average of former years. 1t was, however,
very nearly equal to that of the great wheat
producing States. The wheat crop for 1878
will, it is said, give Kansas the first rank as
Union. Only four States in the Union,
Pennsylvania, New York, Illinois and Wis
consin, exceed Kansas in the total of their
rye product, and only one State, Oregon, ex-
GELS Kansas in the average yield of rye per
acre. Kansas produced, on 12O, 500 acres, a
total of g. 10, 600 bushels of rye, aggregating
in value $4,000. Kansas ranks eleventh
among the oats-producing States in the ag-
gregate of the crop, but fourth in the aver.
age yield per acre. The oat crop Of Kansas
for 1877 was l., zoo, 900 bushels, produced on
an area Of S21 ,052 acres. Value of crop, ST.
10000. Average yield per acre, IS bushels.
Kansas ranks as the sixth barley. producing
State, being excelled only by California,
New York, Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois,
ranking in the order named. The barley
product of Kansas aggregated 100000
bushels, produced on s0,s51 acres, and val
ued at $627, 1000. Kansas ranked eighth
among the barley-producing States in 1876.
In the production of potatoes, Kansas ranks
as the fifteenth State. The hay crop of
Kansas for 1877 aggregated 1,155, 900 tons,
from an area Of 7O0, 900 acres, and valued at
$4.042 800. In the average quantity of hay
produced on an acre of ground, Kansas
ranks all the other States of the Union, her
average product being 1.65 ton per acre.
In 1877 Kansas had 4,143 acres planted in
buckwheat. This area produced 5000
bushels, valued at S43,5O0. She is the fit.
teenth buckwheat-producing State. Con-
corning the flax crop, the report says
that Kansas is becoming the leading
fiax-producing State in the Union.
Kansas ranks tenth among the States in
the aggregate value of her crops, and ninth
in the aggregate acreage of her crops. The
report credits Kansas, in 1877, with 535, 500
head Of oxen, valued at $1O,249, 40. Only
nine States, Texas, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa,
California, Ohio, Indiana, New York and
Pennsylvania, ranking in the order named,
had greater number. Kansas had 156, 600
head of sheep, valued at 1885,, TAG. There are
only ten States that did net have more sheep
than Kantas that year. Our State will make
far better showing in this department of
stock raising within year or two. Kansas
had 431, 200 head of hogs, valued at s, 572 932.
Secretary Grag's report for that year puts
the number of swine in this State at 704 ,662,
and certainly his sources Of information are
much more accurate than those Of the Ma
tional department.. Only sixteen States have
more swine than has Kansas. The number
Of horses is stated at 2S6, 400, and their value
at $12,136,776, Only thirteen States
have more horses than has Kansas.
Our State is credited with 1850 mules, |
valued at S1,707,125. Only fifteen States