The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-01-13
Miscellaneous Items.

The charter hled IN the office OF the
Secretary of State for the Topeka & Vest
cry Railway Company locates headquarters
at Topeka; capital stock, $4,000, 600; esti-
mated length of railroad, $50 miles. Route
commencing at Topeka and running in q
westerly and southwesterly direction via
Eskridge to point at or near Council
Grove, and from Topeka by way Of Mill
Creek and the town of Alma to Council
Grove, thence westerly and southwesterly
by the most practical route through the
Counties of Morris, Dickinson, Saline, Of
tawa, Lincoln and Osborne, to point at or
near Delhi. in Osborne County. Board
Of Directors: w. B. Strong, c. C. Wheeler,
F. G.. Dexter, I. T. Burr, Alden Speare, s.
L. Thorndike, w. Powell Mason, Elisha
Atkins, f. L. Ames. Sidney Dillon, j. F.
Dillon, G. W. Veale, E. B. Purcell.
The annual meeting of the Kansas
Wool. Growers and Sheep Breeding Asso-
citation takes place at Topeka, January II.
The usual special excursion rates have been
secured over the U. P. and A. T. & s. F.
Business of great importance will be before
the convention, besides the election of off,
GERS and the election of . governing com.
mittee on the next annual show, during the
State Fair.
The colored people of Topeka main
tain fifteen church organizations, embracing
six various denominations-two Methodist
Episcopal, two African Methodist Episcopal,
one Congregational, one Cumberland Pres.
byterian, four Primitive and five Missiona.
~ Baptist. Nine Of these are located on
the south side of the river and six on the
north side. An average Of the whole would
allot about one hundred to each Of the fit.
teen. Eight Of the organizations have
houses of worship Of their own, and the
others worship in houses rented and fitted
tor their service.
Superintendent WEIGH, of the Insu-
rance Department, has during the last
twelve months collected so, 67O.56 from the
insurance companies authorized to do bust.
ness in this State.
A petition is in circulation asking the
Commissioners to allow Mound City Town.
ship to vote bonds to the amount of $4,000
in aid Of the St. Louis & Emporia Railroad.
It meets with little opposition. Blue Mound
Township is working hard to secure this
road also, and the Fort Scott & Topeka road,
aud thus have juction, and consequently a
town in their township.
Auditor Bonebrake has returned from
Washington to Topeka, and reports the
prospects for the allowance of the Kansas
war claims exceedingly good. The amount
to be gained is about 500, 900.
Reports come in from all sections of
Sedgwick County that chickens, turkeys,
ducks and birds are dying with the cholera.
Revival meetings are in progress.
The broom corn crop was regular DO.
nanza to Kansas farmers last year, as almost
in every county where planted good crops
were raised, for which the the prices lately
have ranged from SO to 300 per ton at
home.
A young man named Robert Better
benner, residing near Wichita, attempted "a
take shotgun from his wagon few days
ago. The gun was discharged with fatal ef-
feet into his face.
Turkeys have been selling at five
cents per pound in Stockton. Rocks Coun.
ty.
The colored Baptists of Wichita are
preparing to erecting church edifice.