The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-03-09
STATE NEWS


The 18th ult., which closed the Insurance.
year, was . busy one I'm the Department
81 letter.packages were sent out, mostly
licenses to agents. 81 fire, 10 life and / &C.
eadent insurance companies were authorized
to do business in this State last year, to the
agents OF which the Department issued
l,46s licenses. There are now authorized
for this year, A fire, g life and 1 accident
companies. TOthe agents Of these compa.
MES the Department has issued 1 ,027 licenses
There are applications from several compa-
nies now In this Department asking to dc
businessin this State, which have not fully
complied with the law. During the, past
year the Superintendent, by Investigations
which he made, became satisfied that seven
OF the Companies which had received bis
authority to do business in this State, were
unworthy Of the patronage OF the people,
and cancelled their authority. ~
CHANGES were made IN Post Offices in
Kansas, during the week ending Feb. %, as
followe. Established Echo, Douglas Coun-
ty, Mrs. Sallie A.. Brown, Postmistress.
Postmasters ppointed-Bangor, Coffee
County, Mrs. F. A. Atherby; Browns
Grove, Pawnee, William E. Curtis; Carl.
ton, Dickinson, Charles Shaw; Cope, Jack
son, Thomas Stewart; Farlinyille, Linn,
John D. McRae; Ferguson, Franklin, John
z. Dysart; Grarges, fottawatomie, j. Mel
son Fcster; Igo, Rocks, Frank SHUTS; Mid
land, Republic, j. Burchard Chapman; Otter
Lake, Pottawattame, Tylas Area; Pleasant
Valley, Lincoln, Mrs. :Mollie NJ. Pickett; ;
Scandal, Republic, John Hadsell; Sedan,
Chautauqua, d. J. Moore. fH. sag
AT Fort Scott, about 2 o'clock on the
morning Of the 1st, N. 8. Brand, night
Waterman in the Fort Scott and Gull, Rail=
road yard, shot and fatally wounded BERN
ard Mckinnea for attempting to break into
the passenger depot. Brand claims to have
arrested Mckinnea, and when he shot him
that McKinnea was resisting. fhe Cofo-
ner's jury found that the deceased came to
his death as above indicated; and ordered
Brand taken before the civil authorities for
examination. The affair created quite an
excitement. The deceased was entirely I'M
known 1t Fort Scott, but in conversation
the preceding evening he claimed his home
was in Springfield, I'll. Letters on his per-
son, however, indicated that his friends, or
at least his sister, recently resided in Proyi-
dence, RI. n. t.. .e.
ANUMBER Of citizens in Greeley and neigh.
boring townships In Sedgwick are going to
Pratt County, on Snake Greek, and locating
timber claims. There is section Of well
timbered country, 20xGO miles, that is filling
up rapidly, and Gains are becoming scarce.
THE Governor issued commissions dur.
ing the week ending February % as follows:
Notaries Public-Calvin Reasoner, Osborne
County; C. B. Mason, franklin; Eugene NJ.
Young, Cofey; W. II. Finch, Miami, +.
Hoagland, Miami, F. c. Harvey, Saline; p.
A. Reel, Labette. D. II. Scott, Reno; John
T. Showalter, Sumner; ]. B. Lafeyth, John
son; c. E. Gaylord, Marshall; w. T. Car
roll, WyandOtte; c. o. Kline, Wabaunsee;
James Hull, Crawford. Hardin c. Allen,
Justice of the Peace for Lincoln Township,
Crawford County, vice Louis P. McGonigie
removed from township. r. A. Watkins,
Commissioner of Deeds for Arkansas. Resi-
dence, Little Rock. Monroe Crannell, Com
missioner of Deeds for New York. Resi-
dence, Albany.
THE Osages were paid S3t ,4g1.25 few
weeks ago, n, eraging $ls. 70 per head. They
have nothing to ell now, and you can't buy
a pony of them for double its value. The
Pawnees, however, are fearfully poor, and
almost in starving condition. They are re-
turning from their buffalo hunt without any
meat, and some white men stampeded and
drove off a number of their ponies. They
had a squad of eight soldiers with them, but
the Indians were only armed with bows and
arrows, and the thieves were well armed.
RECENTLY, at Atchison, while the bridge
men were throwing the sand from the
pneumatic tubes, they found imbedded in
the sand, at IS feet below the surface, a
piece Of the limb of a tree about six inches
long and two inches in diameter that had
once been cut on both ends, with some sharp
instrument like an AK or Ratchet. 1t is
hard to conceive how a piece of cut wood
could get so far below the bed of the river.
The wood was thoroughly water-soaked and
evinced signs Of decay. ina .e.-
THERE is travelling in northwestern Kan
sas a swindler by the name Of Wolf. He
claims to have been sent out in the Catholic
interest, by Bishop Fink; but the Bishep 4
warns all Catholics to look out for him. q
The Kansas Pacific land department at
Saline sold between the 1st of January and
Goth of February, 1873, 1856, acres of land
period in 1877. -
JOHN SEXTON, not long ago, accidentally
shot and killed his brother.in.law, Samuel /
Darlington, at the farm of Henry Black
burn, three miles from Farlinville, Linn