The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-05-18
KANSAS NOTES.


ed in Topeka last week.
Wild hops can be gathered in Linn
county by the wagon load.
The Masons in Clay Centre are think
ing strongly of building hall.
Abilene Post, G. A. R., numbers
about 24s members-and still growing.
Aschfson authorities have killed 30
{ar,about three hundred vagrant ours.
Topeka, according to directory CEN
rus Just taken; has population of
$4,000.
A large creole colony from Louisiana
will probably locate in Wyandotte
county.
There is talk of establishing tele-
phone line between Kansas City and
Topeka.
Five hundred dollars worth of fire.
works purchased for the Fourth at
Neodesha.
A grand reunion of veteran soldiers
will take place at Cawker City June
5th and 9Th.
More than a million acres of land In
Kansae will be inclosed with wire
fence this year.
Nearly every town in the state is
short in carpenters and masons. Kan
gas 10 booming.
A Wellington young lady got away
with sl.s5 worth of ice cream at one
sitting the other evening.
Preacher Harris bank at Olathe has
failed. The failure has entailed suffer-
ing on many worthy people.
The Usage Mission Republican
changed hands last week, T. F. Ross
disposing of it to Hugh Stevenson.
The War Department asks the Tope-
ka reunion committee for $456.l0 for
damage to tents at last years soldiers
reunion.
The population of new town just
started in Crawford county b describ-
ed as being windy Irishman and o
lame mule.
An unknown man left horse and
buggy at Scottsville, last week. 1t is
thought they were stolen property.
The horse was a roam.
~ fearful cyclone passed over Kan
sas City last Sunday afternoon, de-
stroying three lives and nearly half a
!, million dollars worth of property.
The Blue Mound Independent is
dead. One more tramp printer has
learned that it takes more than one
store and blacksmith shop to support
apaper.
TT Anderson, commander Of the
Kansas Department of the G. A. T.,
promises that before the end of the
year there will be at least $4,000 COM
rades in the State.
The Osborne Farmer says that when
the Nicodemus colonists arrived in
Kansas there was only one team own
ed in the colony. Nearly every head
of a family now has a team of his own.
and every one has at least one or two
cows.
The State Fish Commissioner, W. S
Gle, proposes to shortly visit every
mill-dam in the state. and to submit
the plan for the construction Of fish,
ways agreed upon. and to demand that
they be put in, which demand he pro-
poses to have obeyed.
Oyster culture is bran-new indus
try for Kansas, but eastern parties are
making preparations to try it in the
salt lake at Geuda Springs, in Cowley
county. Should they succeed, the BIZ
valve ought to partake of the wonder
full curative qualities of the waters in
which they grew.
An exchange says: A Western far
mer who tried wheat bran as manure
for wheat reports that the effect Of an
Application Of one ton Of bran to the
acre was equal to that obtained from
the usual application of mixture OF
bone dust, guano, lime and wood ashes,
and the difference of yield as compar-
ed with that not so treated was very
marked.
Secretary E. j. Turner, of the Rail-
way Commission, has sent to the eoun-
ty clerks of the State Q circular read
ing as follows: "Will you have the
kindness to furnish this commission
with information as to the amount of
aid extended to railroads in your eoan-
ty, whether in bonds or otherwise, and
embracing all bonds issued by town.
ship, county or city ?"
1t is reported upon good authority
that the X. c., L. & s. K. railroad
company has purchased the property
and franchise Of the company build
ing line from Girard, on the K. C. F.
s. d G. road to carlton or Chanute, on
the X. C., L. & s. K. road. There is
l6 miles Of the road finished, from Gil
rard to Walnut, leaving about 20 miles
yet to build which it is understood
will DO built this spring by the K. c.,
L. & s. K. company. This will give
them . line into the coal fields ofsouth-
eastern Kansas, which viii undoubted-
" prove a valuable feeder to their