The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-10-05
STATE NEWS


MAJ. +. G. ADAMS, Secretary Of the Kan
sas State Horticultural Society, In company
with DR.. Fryer, Surgeon u. 9. A., and DR..
! R. j. Brown and several other members Of
the Academy Of Science Of Leavenworth
visited spot on high ridge west 81 Fort
Leavenworth, known - sheridsn's Drive,
ON the 9th, to look for the traces Of the
mound builders described by u. 8. Survey.
or Mccoy In 1880. The spot described in the
report was1ound ct . point about one mile
west from Fort Leavenworth, and after some
work among the underground Of hazel.
bushes six mounds Of small size were dis
covered. One Of these was opened,
and at . depth Of four feet two
stone walls parallel to each other, about Elk
feet apart, were found, and at one place an
arched covering Of stone. The inner sides Of
the rocks, which had evidently been carried
to the top of the ridge, which is about 100
feet above the.sea level, indicated that they
had been subjected to an intense heat at
some time. Much interest Is manifested in
the reports of the research among scientific
men and . thoroughly organized force will
make further excavations when 1t 10 thought
much of scientific importance will be devel-
oped. These are the unmistaksble traces Of
the first mound-b builders discovered west Of
the Mississippi River.
NORTON COUNTY has received q large ad-
dition to its population. A colony composed
Of So families 800 people-from Montgom-
cry, Clinton, Tippecanoe and Fountain
Counties, Indiana, recently settled there.
They brought their supplies and farming i'm.
plements with them on mixed train of II
cars. They have entered 14sections of Gov
eminent land lying in . body. Nearly all
the men have been soldiers in the Union
Army.
HERE are few items among the many
improvements that will have been COM
pleted in Osborne at the close of the year:
A stone block by Hays & Wilson, 45x65, two
stories with iron fronts, costing probably
5000; stone block by Watson & Gillette,
2bxS5, two stories high, with iron front,
cost probably "a 500; frame church by the
Congregational society, 2sx4O, costing 81 500;
an iron bridge over the Solomon River, cost
ing $4,000.
SINCE the LIST of March last over $50 emf
grant wagons have passed through Clifton.
In one week IS passed in six days, and
during the next % more followed. One of
the immigrants said that more than GO
families would leave the county from which
| he came, in October. All are seeking homes
| beyond settlements or in counties sparsely
settled, and nearly all are from old States
which were brought under cultivation so
years ago.
| Mr.. z. L. SPARE, near Leavenworth, has
25 900 forest trees. David McPheeters, near
Peabody, has q, 000-6, 900 black walnut, GOO
each coffee bean and oak, 200 blackberry and
box-elder, and the remainder cottonwood.
THE Wellington Press says: sMr. VIM.
Banks left at this Office, two seeds taken
from perfectly sound pumpkin, each Of
which have sprouted. The sprouts are an
inch in length, and each have put out two
leaves, but no roots are observable. Can
any of our agricultural friends explain this
unusual occurrence?
ONE plate of apples, holding five, was
considered worth $10O-at least quite num-
Der sold for that-in disposing Of donated
barrel Of the same for the benefit Of the yell
low-fever sufferers, at the auction held in
the streets of Salina.
ANDREW LOYINDALL, living about five
ILLUS IIOu SiyuCS hC0A MAI wv % "aS AO-
Gently found by his brother lying insensible
in his field with terrible wound in his
thigh. Near him stood his team, attached
to revolving hay rake, the teeth Of which
were bloody. DR.. Campbell being called,
said that the femoral artery was severed,
which necessarily proved fatal. The man
died the same night.
THE Atchison Champion Of the oath says:
There is law in the Kansns statutes which
permits the Governor and some other of the
State officers, who constitute Board Of
Trustees for that purpose, to appoint State
Fiscal Agent in the East, with whom shall
be deposited the moneys necessary for the
use of the State in the payment of bonds or
coupons, and for the investment Of certain
funded moneys. This Board appointed as
such agents the private New York banking
house Of Donnell, Lawson s. Co., and the
law requiring these gentlemen to give bonds,
they secured, among others, the names Of
the Mastin Brothers, Of Kansas City, Mo-,
and A. NJ. Saxon, of st. Joseph, as sureties.
Since the collapse of the Hastins, the Board
have been little suspicious of Donnell,
Lawson & Co., and yesterday Treasurer
Francis made draft on them for about
SsOO, 900, the balance of the money remain
ing in their hands as agents of the State,
and the draft has been forwarded. The
American Exchange Bank is now the au-
thorized fiscal agents for the State, and the
fact will be so advertised in New York to-
day. Whether Donnell, Lawson & Co. meet
the draft promptly remains to be seen. In
addition to this, however, by the prestige
given them, many Kansas counties have
made them their fiscal agents for the sale of
revenue and other bonds, and as agents for
the purchase of bonds. 1t now behOoves
the Treasurers Of these counties to see that
their funds are all right. Again, the pres
tige given them as State agents has led many
country banks to make them their Eastern
correspondents. Donnell, Lawson & Co.
may be all right and solid, and the only
cause of alarm is the failure of their bonds
men; but we predict there will be hurrying
to and fro among many County Treasurers
when this news reaches them.
On the 18th, Donnell, Lawson & Co. tel.
egraphed from New York that the State
Treasurer had not drawn on them for $780,
600, or any other amount. They say: 1--WE
owe him less than g, and he has not drawn
upon us at ALL" On the 26th, A. NJ. SaxtoD,
President of the State Savings Bank at st.
Joseph, Mo-, chastised H.. C. Adams, local
editor of the st. Joseph Gazette, in the pres
ence OF q crowd on the Pacific Hotel side.
walk for sending libelous special
dispatch, containing the substance Of the
above, to the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
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