The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-01-12
KANSAS NOTES.
Usage CITY has a skst,rr rink.

The Santa Fe lie about to invest
many thousand dollars in Burllngame.
Fort Scott iasoon to have hominy
mill.
1t is reported that seventeen inch
vein Of coal has been discovered near
Eldorsdo.
The Register, of Great Bend, has
bought the Democrat of the came
place.
The experiment of raising German
carp at the agricultural college Is de-
cided success.
Fredonia has a creamery association.
Its capital stack is S7,I00, which is
held by 81 persons.
Walnut claims to have a man who
is SO lazy that when he once gets to
work he is too lazy to stop.
Senator Plumb has presented bill
appropriating $4,000 for a military
hospital at Fort Leavenworth.
Stock is wintering in splendid shape
and Coffey county never had better
supply of good corn and hay.
The iron foundry Of F. f. Merrick,
Of Newton. was swept away by fire,
Involving Il loss of s. 900.
The bonded debtof Bourbon county,
all told, is now S2ls, 200, all at s per
cent. interest per annum.
Columbus has $4,000 fire on the
morning of the Sd, ten buildings being
destroyed; insurance, 5000.
Wellington claims tailor shop that
runs more hands than any other shop
between Kansas City, No., and Den.
yer, Col.
Gen. Chas. w. Blair, Of Fort Scott,
has purchased property in Leaven-
worth, and will soon make that his
place Of residence.
There have been five deaths I'm all
from smallpox at Great Bend. Five
persons are reported sick with this
disease.
There were LAG building permits
issued In Topeka during the past year,
for buildings to cost over q million of
dollars.
Ex-Congressman VIM. A. Phillips
is employed by the Cherokee Indians
at salary of 81, 900 per year to repre-
ent their interests in Washington.
Seven saloon keepers in Usage
City pay into the city treasury the
sum of fifty dollars a month for the
privilege of selling whiskey.
There have been planted in Kan
sas since its settlement 140,0 acres Of
forest trees. In the same time there
have been over 10000, 900 fruit trees
set out.
Referring to terrible row that oc-
CURED at an Abilene prayer-meeting
recently, the Troy Chief thinks an
amendment prohibiting prayer meet
ings would be In order.
John F. Schroeder, a butcher of Bur
Iington, recently hanged himself in
the rear Of his shop in that city. He
leaves q wife and six children to mourn
his loss and bear the effects of his fol-
ly.
Hon. VIM. Rhea, Representative to
the legislature from Larned, was pre-
scented with gold headed cane by his
constituents on thaeve of his depar-
ture to Topeka.
The Cherryvaie Star thinks that if
all delinquent subscribers who pay up
every newspaper publisher in Kansas
could commence the year 1888 out of
debt aud money I'm the bank.
The Hiawatha Messenger has a.
Morrill, department, something that
few papers in Kansas can boast of. If
the reader can't see this joke, we will
explain 1t upon application.
The explosion of kerosene lamp at
Eureka last week, resulted i'm the fatal
burning of Mrs. J. w. Scott and little
child about two years of age. No
especial cause is assigned for the acci-
dent.
Sumner county claims To have
shipped more cattle to market in 1882
than any other county in the world.
From two points alone, HunneweH
and Caldwell, $3.50 car loads were
shipped.
The Atehison Champion suggests
that at the next eensus of Kansas an
enumeration be made Of all persons
who have served in the army, togeth-
er with the number of their regiment,
duration of service. and date OF dis
charge. Good.
The WetIingtoniGn says Winfield
''can turn out more hooked-nosed,
gangle-gaited, spiay-footed, wart- !
checked, crawny-necked, eiub-ankled
women than any city Of its size in the
State" Must have got the mitten.
Kansas weekly newspapers are pros
periBg. Mr.. Ingersoll will put new
dress on the Valley Falls Near Era; 1
the Ottawa Herald has enlarged to a
q seven column quarto, and the Clay
Center Times las done the same, and