The Iola register., 1879-09-12
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

/ TWO men were recently captureQ by Z
mob near Leroy and hung up, for one
time Only," i'm order to make them tell what
they knew about some horses that had been
stolen from that vicinity. These parties
were innocent, however, and they purpose to
make it warm for the parties who conducted
the hanging. -a
|. PRESIDENT HAYES and party will arrive
at Topeka the morning of the 24th inst, to
remain there q hours. Great preparations
are making for the reception. Gen. Pope
will send a battery of artillery from Fort
Leayenworth and a military band from Fort
Riley TO assist in the ceremonies. From To-
peka the Presidential party will 90 on the
18th Ia Neosho Falls 10 attend the fair at that
place, remaining there one dry, and going
thence west ~ far a. Fort Dodge, and from
there returning to Fort Lraycnworih and
thence back TO Washington. Gov. II. John
and staff, and the Capitol Guards of Topeka
will escort The party through KANSAS.
THE report of the Commission TO inyesti-
gate losses sustained 10y citizens of Kansas
from the terrible Indian invasion of last year
has completed its work and made their re-
port. 1t. appears that IlG claims We're re-
ccivcd and examined. and that the total
amount claimed was SlS2. 2.6l6.13, while the
total amount allowed was SOL, ,16G.S3. The
evidence showed the number of deaths to
have been -.
Gov ST. JOHN has commissioned the fol-
lowing named persons Is NOtaries Public:
Simon p. Kelso, Norton County, TO do busi-
ness in Rawlins; c. ii. Corey, McPher>on;
John Braniff, Saline.
AT Junction City OH the Sd, John Oates,
aged 16, was run over and killed by freight
train on the Kansas Pacific, which he was
trying to board near the depot. He was from
Marine, Madison County, Ill.
By the fall on the 4th of scaffOltlinG on
the new Opera House building in Leaven-
worth, four men, Chas. Brown, single;
Archie Turner, married, colOred: Hugh
Mulvaney, Il boy about 16, and VIM. IOakum,
the contractor, were preeipitated to the base
ment floor, 90 feet below, falling across the
joists. All, excepting the boy, were serious
ly if not fatally injured.
At Hutchinson, about $ o'clock the eren-
ing Of the I'd, man named stephens entered
the house of one of the prominent business
men, and finding the lady alone attempted
to ravish her. In her struggles the lamp
was overturned aud the house took fire.
This, with her screams, alarmed the brute,
who fled without having accomplished his
design. Hewas captured as he was running
from the house, and taken before justice,
but large and excited crowd coming to-
gethcr he was forcibly rushed into the
County Jail. Lynch law was freely spoken of.
TIE Kansas Southern Railway Company
has been incorporated. Their charter was
Iiled on the Sd at Topeka, and shows that the
line will run southwest from Lind>bur", the
present terminus of the Safina and South
western, through Mcpherson, Rice, Reno,
Stafford, Pratt, Barbour, Comanche and
Clark Counties, passing through Sterling, in
Rice County. The directors for the first year
are: JAY Gould, New York: Russell Sage,
New York: ID. NJ. EdgertOn, New York; j.
+. Usher, Lawrence: :. L. smith, L. }.
Lynde, J. W. Griffith, Kansa; City: II. l..
Millard, W. ii. Page, c. ID. Timer, \. G.
Lands, c. +. Daniels, Sterling, Has: \. w.
Wickham, Salina, HAS. The estimated Icngtl,
of the road is I15 miles, and the capital stock
S1,1,J0,000. Work will I've commenced as soon
As aid is voted, and will be pushed with all
possible dispatch.
THE Land-officc at Topeka will begin to
receive payments for kaw land claims on
October I>t, 1879, at the present appraised
prices. The money may all bc paid at once
and patent obtained, or be paid i'm six
equal annual installmeilts, with q per cent
interest on deferred payments.
THE Grand Lodge of Kansas of the Good
Templar> will meet in Wichita the first week
in October, at which time there will he quite
a number of delegates from various places i'm
the State in attendance.
THE extension of the railroad in the di.
rection of Winfield is about ready for the
rails the entire distance. which will be laid
down rapidly IL soon rs the bridge across
the Ninnescah. south of Cedar Plain. is fin
ished. There is considerable work bein.
done beyond Wellington. The extension TO
Winfield is practically finished. and the road
will run into the latter place :i> soon as the
bridge across the Walnut is finished.
Two corps of surveyors are at work on the
Burlin@amc, Alma Il Manhattan Railroad.
One has started from Manhattan TO Burlin-
game, and the other from Burin.ame 10
Manhattan. The two surveys will be COM
plete and distinct in themselves and the esti-
mates made upon them: Il decision will then
he made which route to follow. $1,000 ties are
now ut Lawrence for the Carbondale Road,
and the company will have the road-bed to
Carbondale i'm good order within b days.
THE tracklaying on the Cowlcy, Sumner
and Fort Smith Railroad is completed to
within three miles of Winfield. The main
force has been withdrawn and put to work
an the Wellington Branch, while the bridge
j, being built over the Walnut, when the
will finish their work in Cowley
County without delay.
4 FEW days ago, the little daughter of
Patterson, liNin" in the northeast
part of Buffalo Township, jewell County,
drank, by accident, some I've that had been
prepared for washing, and in 10 hours was "A
corpse, suffering before death the most ter.
liblc agony. ~