The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-06
KANSAS NOTES.


German carp are successfully raised
at the State Agricultural College In q
pond which cost S25.
The stone arch bridges in Marion
county are success, and are more sat
isfsctosy I'm every way than iron ones.
A cottonwood forty feet high and
but four years old is reported In Sedg-
wick county.
The Garnet Plaindeater will here
after be known as the Anderson Cousa-
u Reputlioaa.
Topeka Is to have number of large
wholesale houses erected this summer.
This looks like business.
The City Council of Ellsworth will
cause shade trees to be set out this
spring on every street and avenue in
that city.
Geo. r. Peck has been invited to de-
liver the annual address at the next
commencement of the State Agricul-
tural College.
The Oswego Independent advises the
farmers to raise peanuts enough to sup
ply the home demand. This idea is
worthy of consideration.
Centralia has the butter maker. Mrs.
Mosher made, from eleven cows, last
season 1, 43l pounds of butter, besides
what was used for the family.
The colored people of Lawrence are
to have an organ devoted to their in
terests. The name of the organ is the
Western Recorder. 1t is edited by j.
L. Walker.
In the district court of Douglass
county Mrs. Lucy A. Clyde sues for
ten thousand dollars, Morris Cotton,
Mel Donnelly and John Walruff for
selling her husband intoxicating liquor.
The Western National Fair Associa-
: ton will hold its fourth annual exhibit
ton at Bismark Grove, near Lawrence
from September Sd to Sth inclusive.
1t takes $4,000 year to run the
State government of Kansas, with a
population of over 100000 of people,
while it costs Canada, with its {, 200, 900,
over S45, 000, 900 per annum.
The Independence Tribune says that
while the wheat has been considerably
damaged in Montgomery county,
yet the unusually large acreage will
bring the county's crop about up to the
average.
w. J. Greg, of Marshal comfy, lost
a horse by drowning, and brought suit
against the road overseer of the district
for damages, because no water gauges
had been put up to show the depth of
the water in the creek. He was award
ed the damages asked.
Parsons is to have creamery capa-
BILE of turning out two thousand five
hundred pounds of butter a day.
Winfield, Wichita and Wellington all
have creameries in successful opera
ton.
Mr.. R. 8. Cornish, of ..Labette coun-
ty, an extensive sorghum manufac-
turer, says that a number of his neigh
bors are going to engage in the same
business this season, believing there is
money in it.
Immigration to Kansas is believed
tobe much greater this spring than last.
During the first ten weeks of the pres
emit year the Union Pacific railway
company has sold over $4,000 acres of
land, all to actual settlers. This is so
per cent increase over sales during a
like period last year.
The Odd Fellows of this state will
hold grand celebration at Topeka, on
April 26th, that being the sixty-fourth
anniversary of Odd Fellowship. There
are two hundred lodges in the state, all
of which will send large delegations.
This will be one of the grandest affairs
ever witnessed in Topeka or the state.
Bishop Fink, of Leavenworth, is
making an Episcopal visit of the do
cese which embraces the whole state
of Kansas. 1t is his intention to visit
all parishes in the state, and in order
to do this will have to be absent from
home four or five weeks.
The drill being sunk at Arcadia for
coal, struck crude petroleum and the
gas issuing from the well is sufficient
to light up small city. A small vein
of coal about one foot in thickness has
been penetrated at the depth of nearly
one hundred feet. About fifty feet
more viii determine the larger strata
Of coal.
A dispatch from Tucson dated March
18th says: Judge III. C. McComas and
wife were murdered yesterday by
Apaehes at Thomson Canon, is miles
east ofLordsburg, N. NJ. Their son was
with them and it is supposed was cap
tured. Judge McComas was a men,
Der OF the law firm of McComas &
Mcclellan, of st. Louis. His wife was
sister of Senator Ware, of Kansas.
Later:-The dead body of the boy
has since been found.
There is a movement among the
Germans of the eastern district of
Brooklyn for the formation..ofa Platt-
deutsche settlement in Kansas. Fiji
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