The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-02-24
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

iOWiuS uSuTeS IS Tue SUM tOSaI Oh tAAeS AO'
all purposes for 1881:
state taxes. $3.50 s
county taxes. ,ll8,SA6 8
OlCy taxes o13sllI s
Township taxes. 81, 3T i
school district taxes. 1892 1853 O.
Total. ........................ .l54.sss o.
Average rate on each 500, $3.50.
COUNTY INDEBTEDNESS.
Warrants outstanding. .............$ 1884 6!
OOuuCy DOnOS ....................... I,0SO,O41 II
Total county Indebtedness. 90. S. 02S ,9s5 g
Per cent of county debt on taxable proper.
y fsv y: on sales Of State ,onoo,
lands, principal and interest, for
the six months ending December
For the six months ending Dec. 81,
1851. IIS,4E 8,
increase In 1851. 3O,SSO q
Gov. St. John has received q large con
signment of rare and valuable books, pre-.
sented by State officials and other friends al
Harrisburg, Pa, as slight testimonial Of
their respect, called forth by the Governors
recent visit to that city. Included in this
unique collection of upward of one hundred
volumes Is complete edition of the laws OF
that Commonwealth running back to the
Colonial period, and fac smile in parch-
ment of several OF the more important trea-
ties made by William Penn with the Indians
and with the Governors of adjacent prov.
inces.
The Grand Lodge of A. o. U. w., re-
Gently in session at Topeka, installed off
GERS for the ensuing year as follows: w.
r. Sheen, Lawrence, Grand Master; E. T.
Trimble, Winfield, Grand Foreman; A. j.
Loveland, Topeka, Grand Overseer; E. NJ.
Ford, Emporia, Grand Recorder; G. w.
Kratzung, Fort Scott, Grand Receiver; N.
N. Kinney, Topeka, Grand Guide; A. II.
McClarey, Parsons, Grand Waterman; S.
E. Sheldon, Topeka, Medical Director. T.
j. Bradley, Council Grove. John NJ. Price
of Atchison, and E. NJ. Ford, Emporia,
were elected representatives to the Supreme
Lodge, which meets at Cincinnati in June
next. j. S. McMullen, Winfield. Hon.
John Seaton, Atchison, and r. D. Talbot
Of Parsons, were elected board of trus-
tees.
Mcdonald, the hardware merchant
who recently disappeared from Atchison,
confronted his creditors few days ago, and
it is thought it will all be settled and a
satisfactory arrangement made by which
the various representatives can be partially
appeased.
Within radius of forty miles about
Wichita are held upward of two hundred
thousand head of sheep.
Some magnificent herds of cattle are
being fed in Sedgwick County.
The Supreme Court of Kansas has
pronounced unconstitutional so much of tho
Prohibitory law as prescribes punishment
for drunkenness, on the ground that the
provision was not expressed in the title of
the bill.
Samuel Miller, of North Topeka, aged
seventy years, recently committed suicide
by hanging himself in his barn. He suffered
sunstroke last summer, and was not in his
right mind at all times.
A darkey bootblack was arrested at
Atchison for throwing kisses at sewing girl
and given four days on the rock pile.
Cheyenne County, bordering on Col
RADIO, has been organized into school dis
trict and will build school house at once.
The citizens of Bardwin City and the
Lawrence & Southern Railroad Company
intend prosecuting the Board of Health Of
Fort Scott for sending smallpox patients
to their city.
Five graduates of Williams College
are connected with our State Univerity.
Rents are three times what they were
in Atchison year or two ago.
Miami County raised more flax in
fhov 9TH IN ho
area sown was something over IS, 1000 acres.
A draft-horse stock company has
been organized in Brown County, with
capital of S., 900.
It is probable that the Atchison Coal
Company will operate either above or below
the city, to avoid changing the channel of
the river with slack and stone from the
mine, as Is threatened at Leavenworth.
The work of tearing down the old
at Leavenworth, will begin soon,
and Cathlic school house will be built on
the site.
Mr.. David Shellabarger, one of the
oldest residents of Shawnee County, died of
typhoid brain fever a few days ago. He was
we'll known and widely respected.
Wichita mills turn out 348 barrels of
flour day.
Kansas is the ninth coal-producing
State in the Union.
The new Odd Fellows Hall at New
ton will be dedicated March Is.
General D. w. Wilder, G. B. Bow
man and John B. Campbell are to start .
paper 1T Hiawatha.
There are 12,482 Mennonites in the
State.
A young man of Sedgwick County
had his hand severed from his arm some
three months since. A surgeon joined the
parts promptly together, and now he has as
good use of the severed member as ever.
The Treasurer of Hodgman County
was recently put under $500 bail for alleged
''criminal Irregularities.
Topeka possesses sixty-ive doctors.
An Elk County constable was recently
bound over in the sum Of s., 900 for shooting
q man he was trying to arrest.
A Rocks County paper says the in
crease of cultivated area in Kansas since
1874 has been 6, "a, 200 acres, or almost 100,-
BOO acres of raw prairie broken up every