The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-04-15

State News.
Coal has been found near Wichita.
Columbus has young lady forger.
Winfield has organized q coal conn
pany.
Wolves are numerous in Smith
county.
Burglaries are numerous around
Parsons.
Osborne City talks Of surrendering
her charter.
Coal has been discovered in King
man county.
Bloomfield, jackson county, is to
have q cheese factory.
The total vote of Leavenworth at the
late election footed up 2,2l.
There Is talk of railroad across
from Wa-Keeney to Great Bend.
The Ellis Headlight has been resnr-
rected, with Miss Eva Kinney as Its
editor.
Parsons is to have new elevator
that will have a capacity OF SO,OO
bushels.
A. l.. Redden, of Eldorado, says the
Walnut Valley Times. has law libra
ry that cost 5000.
The Western National Fair, to be
held at Bismarck Grove next fall will
expend SIS, 900 in premiums.
Several of our Western Kansas ex-
changes report considerable injury to
the wheat by the late freezing.
The Fl. Scott Monitor is working
hard i'm the effort to effect railroad
communication between that city and
Topeka.
Dodge City has sent q long petition
to the President asking that LIE Due
be continued as Commissioner of Agri-
culture.
Col. A. r. Green, late of the State
Senate, has resumed his old position as
travelling correspondent of the Kansas
City Journal.
meeting of the Kansas Wool Grow
ers' and Sheep Breeders Association
will be held at Newton on Wednesday,
April 10th, 1881.
Gov. st. John has gone into the
mining business. He is president OF
the Leeds Mountain Gold and Silver
Mining Company.
Investigation proves that the sand
burr, one of the greatest enemies OF
the Kansas farmer, Is reproduced from
the seed, and not from the root.
Rev. s. P. Roundtree, founder of the
.Nicodemus Colony (colored), in Ora
ham county, who was slave for forty
eight years, is lecturing on slave life
in various parts of the State.
The Santa Fe Company has caused
county, for obtaining seed wheat from
the company last Fall, and then eat
ing the wheat instead of sowing it.
The Commonwealth says the Man.
haitian Fire Insurance Company has
withdrawn its business from Kansas
This statement was permaturely made
some weeks ago, but it is true this
time.
Emporia Nesus: We violate Nd con-
fidence in saying that EmpOria is the
most extensive barn-yard in the State
and offers better field for cows and 8
worse show for shade trees than any
town in the universe.
Commonwealth Through H0nora
BILE Thomas II. Cavanaugh, who il
now in this city, We learn that a great
discovery of coal has been made neal
Atwood, in Rawlins county. The vein
found is said to be at depth Of les'
than 100 feet below the surface, and il
over twenty-four inches in thickness
The Junction City Union speaks o
the probable loss of German immigra
ton through the passage of the prohi
bitory law, and advises, to make VI
for this falling off, that the RAILROAD
companies and citizens generally seel
80 get up boom in New England ant
elsewhere by glowing advertisement
of the moral, as well as physical, ad
vantages offered by Kansas. The fac
that the prohibitory law prevails il
this State, the Union says. could b
dwelt upon with great emphasis. 81
policy that will repel one class of pee
ple, will attract another"