The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-05-09
STATE NEWS.


Atchison wants more houses.
The Topeka barb wire works employ
16 hands.
Cy Leland, of Troy, packed 5000 hogs
Last winter. -
Senator Plumb has sent $50 to the col
ored refugees. -
North Topeka is to have foundry and
machine shop.
A man has been cured of hydrophobia
at Paola by madstone.
Bishop Vail has taken editorial charge
of the Kansas Churchnscn.
An effort is being made to establish .
public library At Atchison.
The ladies have had arbor days in diff.
ferent portions of the State.
A $685., 900 back tax case was decided
| in favor of an Atchison man.
An Emporis ordinance forbids the
opening of barber shops on Sunday.
An editorial greenback convention is
to be held at Emporia, in few days.
Several deaths have occurred recently
at Plymouth, Lynn county, from DIP
iberia. ss
The bond proposition for the Santa Fe
road WAS Overwhelmingly defeated IN
Elk county.
The old rolling mills in North Topeka
have been converted into q mandatory
for straw lumber.
A colony of soldiers and sailors, con-
sisting of thirty-five families, have locat'
ed in Meade county.
Reports from all parts of the State are
to the effect that crop prospects, were
never more encouraging.
| During the year ending January, the
REGENTS At the United States land office
at Hays City were $40, 900 in round mum
bers.
Eight wagons containing fifty persons
from Bates county, Missouri, passed
through Lawrence on the Sd on their way
to Montana.
The total assessed valuation of rail
road property in the State is little II
: excess of fifteen million dollars, or nearl,
, one-eight of the entire taxable propert!
: of the State.
George T. Gilmore, who has been con
nected with the Office of the Secretary o
a State at Topeka since 1871, has been ap
: pointed Assistant Secretary of State b!
!. the Secretary.
r Judge Peter Bell and brother, G. NJ
8 Bell. Of lola, were over looking at land
b the first of the week. 1t is rumOred tina
5 Nh. G. NJ. Bell will become q citizen Q
e this county.-Yd Yates Center Ne'cs.
On Friday morning last couple Q
Il special trains passed through Fl. Scott
4 on the NJ & r., containing six con-
n NAMES of the 22d Michigan infantry
from Detroit, on their way to Texas.
IS During a recent alteration betwee
e two bows at Eureka, one named Grlfht
Il hit the other named Pruden in the bac
with q Ratchet, inflicting wound OF
- serious nature rs will probably caus
IS death.
IS The Kinsley fire has impressed prof
il nertv owners n other towns with the fat
ID that it is necessary to effect some organ
IN ization by which property might
ir saved if similar calamity should eve
t. befall their town.
Two men were shot and badly woun'
e ed in Smith county, near the Nebrash
as line. In one case there Was an attemp
q ed murder and robbery, and in the 9TH
S. there was cowardly attack upon tN
ID German emigrants.
- The Masonic Mutual Benefit Socie,
.. of Kansas now numbers 1,2l7 member
It was organized in 1873, and has ha
So only twelve deaths. The thirtee
n. months from November, 1877, to Decor
Il. Der, 1873, no deaths occurred, showiI
I'd that the Masons of Kansas are a health
Ia set of fellows. The value of q membe
AZ ship ticket is 81, 1910.