The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-01
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Says the Madison Nescs: s'Some OF
our stock mem fled complaint under the
new Texas caktle law against the parties who
were holding Southern cattle on the van
Horn branch. Sheriff Werner came up last
Tuesday morning to take chaTgs of tho catss
tie, but found no cattle nor men. They had
taken leave. during the night and have not
aimee been heard from. Let It be known
once for all that it will not pay to drive such
cattle into Greenwood County. The stock
men and farmers are in. earnest when they
declare they will deal out the maximum of
the law to those who would infect their herds
with Texas fever"
In the United States Circuit Court at
Leavenworth, Judges McCrary and Foster
presiding, the jury in the case OF Hahn
against Plankenton & Armour, Of Kansas
City, returned verdict for the plaintiff of
ST., 200 damages, incurred from defective
machinery In constructing q building at
Kansas City. ss
Shawnee County shows an assess
ment of $685., 556, of which the City Of To-
peka has So, 41O, 434, or little more than
one-haf. The total increase over the as
sesshent Of 1880 is SAC, $50, Of which all but
So, 764 belongs to the city.
The Atchison Champion says that De-
tective Dougherty, of that place, and Pete
Lyons, another detective, have been arrest
ed on the charge of being the Nortonville
robbers. The evidence against them is en-
tirely circumstancial, but locks bad. They
have stood well in the community hereto
fore.
The Nebraska, Topeka, Iowa & Mem
phis Railroad has been legally organized. It
will run south from Topeka to Girard, via
lola, thence through Missouri and Arkansas
to Memphis, Tenn. also, north from Topeka
to the northern boundary of Kansas and
thence to Lincoln, Neb. F. w. Giles, OF
Topeka, was made President and strong
directory chosen from points along the line
of the proposed road. A fund Of s., 600 was
raised to make the survey. Aid will he
raised by the different townships through
which the road passes, and Eastern capital
lists have engaged to take the bonds and as
sumo the construction. The preliminary
survey will be made at once and the road
pushed to completion at the earliest possible
day.
The Arkansas City Traveller says the
stockmen in that vicinity are talking up the
holding of meeting for the purpose of pro-
tecting native cattle from the Texas drive In
the Territory.
Thomas Trotter, q Missouri horse
Jockey, while training horse on the track
at Girard, came into collision with cow
and received fatal injuries.
Leavenworth and St. Joseph are con-
nected by telephone.
The Sterling sugar mill will have a ca
pacity Of grinding 300 tons of cane per day.
The State Fish Commissioner has
distributed ITO, 900 salmon trout in the Ma
rias des Cygne, the Arkansas and other
streams in the southern portion Of the State.
There are fifty-five and one-half miles
of railroad in operation in Anderson Coun-
ty, and their valuation (within the county
lines) is SITS, 1861.
Some portions of the State are starting
fax boom.
Parkerville, Morris County, is to have
alarge cheese factory.
The Supreme Court met in special
session on the 21st, and rendered its decision
in the test whisky cases from Leavenworth
and Shawnee Counties. They were given as
follows, Judge Brewer delivering the opin-
ions, all the other Justices concurring: From
Leavenworth County-State vs.. Holmes,
charged with selling bay-rum. affirmed; the
same charged with selling tircture of gen.
tian, affirmed; the same for selling McLean's
cordial, reversed; the same for selling ex-
tract Of lemon, affirmed; from Shawnee
County-State vs.. Burns, charged with SELL
ing brandy, affirmed; State VS.. Rowley,
charged with selling alcohol, affirmed; State
vs.. Rowley, charged with selling whisky,
| tolu, etc., reversed; State VS.. Swefft, charged
| with selling ash bitters, reversed. The Court
held that under Chapter 120, Laws of 1881,
| a permit is necessary from the Probate
Judge, by druggists, for the sale, as therein
stated, of all liquors known to be intoxicat-
ing, such as whisky, brandy, gin, etc. What
ever is properly known as medicine, articles
for the toilet or culinary purposes, as pre-
scribed in the United States Dispensary, do
not come under the supervision of the Pro-
4 hibitory act. The Court virtually leaves the
whole matter with jury to determine
whether or not any of the articles named in
the prohibition shall be sold. t-.Fg
The new Presbyterian church at Fair
view, Brown County, has been dedicated.
The Usage City Free Press presents,
| in addition to lengthy descriptive article,
the following summary Of the loss oflife and
damage inflicted by the recent cyclone in
Usage County:
Number of persons killed. observation-disclosures :
| Number of persons wounded. ...... ......... %
Number of residences totally Destroyed. &c
Number of residences partially destroyed. IL
Number of other buildings destroyed zap .
prOXimated) ........................... u
Mr.. Merrill, of Newton, harvested and
marketed two acres of strawberries and real.
lied profit of $500. Many OF the plants be-
ing young, the crop was not as large as il
will be in the future.
Articles of incorporation of the St
Joseph, Highland & Northwestern Railroad
have been filed with the Secretary Of State
The company has a capital stock of $4,000
and is organized for the purpose Of con.
structing and operating railway and tele.
graph line from a point on the Missouri
River opposite st. Joe, Mo-, through thu
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