The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-02
KANSAS NOTES.

Wichita is talking Of street rail.
way.
a lad at Manhattan has pet ALI
gator.
Wellington contemplates boring fol
coal.
Kansas farmers are shipping seed
corn to Iowa.
Jewell county has 1000 cattle ready
for shipment.
"A second irrigation ditch is to be SIR.
veyed at Dodge City.
Chatauqua claims to be the cham.
pion cotton county of Kansas.
Ahunter i'm Chase county has caught
seven fine beavers this winter.
The rains OF last week greatly bene-
fitted the wheat of western Kansas.
The Kansas postmaster is being re-
appointed with considerable regular
fly.
Ottawa county beat by 400 majority
q proposition to issue bonds to build a
court house.
They have a Jolly Sisters Cooking
Club at Paola. That must be nice.
Why not start one here?
Grading has commenced on the
Fort Scott & Wichita road between
Eldorado and Wichita.
Girard is to have two new rail-
roads-the Coal Belt and the Girard,
Nevada aud Parsons.
"Custer and a Warriors Revenge
fs the name of a drama being rehearsed
by the Wellington Guards.
Mr.. James Morley, Of Dickinson
county, Is delivering lectures in Eng
land on Farming In Kansas"
Four weddings and two or three ru-
mors of weddings filled the society
columns OF the Fort Scott papers on
Friday morning last.
The annual school fund to be divided
among the different couties was appor-
toned last week. The total amount
was S13s, ISL 20.
The rival editors at Cottonwood
Falls, failing TO settle matter in their
paper, went the other day and had it
out In street fight.
A. E. Boyland, of Dickinson county,
after eight years residence, has over
$1,000 fruit and forest trees, including
evergreens over is feet high.
Washington county has two cream
cries, one at Palmer and the other at
Koloko. and 1000 cows are waiting
another at Washington.
The holiness People" in Cherokee
county issue circulars headed "Procla-
nation from the Governor of the Uni
verse;" and signed "God Almighty"
Mr.. A. Prescott, prominent banker
If Topeka, committed suicide last Fri
day. Mental arrangement caused by
overwork.
More trees will be planted In Kansas
this year than in any single year be-
fore. Our people begin to appreciate
the value OF trees, and will not here
after neglect to transplant large mum,
bers.
The annual report of the board of
state house commissioners shows that
500 ,S7s so has been expended on the
west wing of the state house. and that
ISIS IS has been expended thus far
81 the central building.
The Atchison Champion under ITS
present name and management was
twenty-five years old on the Goth.
James Buchanan was then President
and Napoleon III Emperor of France.
The counties of Gray, Kearney,
Grant, Stevens, Arapahoe. Clark and
Seward. have been consolidated by &C.
ton of the legislature, into four coun-
ties, to be known as Hodgeman, Ford,
Hamilton and Finney.
The officers of the Marriage Aid
Association, doing business in Topeka,
have been arrested on the charge Of
using the mails 10 deceive and defraud
the public. The association will prob
ably be broken up.
Usage Mission wants its name
changed to Neona, and the represen-
.ative from Neosho county has intro
duced Till into the legislature TO
carry out its wishes. Neona is said to
have been the name of daughter of
Little Bear, formerly head chief of the
Big Osages.
The annual meeting Of the stock
holders of the st. Louis, Fort Scott
& Wichita railroad company will be
held at the general Offices of the COM
psny, in Fort Scott next Tuesday,
March 6, for the election of directors
for the ensuing year.
Frank Wittse, twenty-five years old,
five feet ten inches high, darkish light
complexion, slim built, no beard,
slightly hoarse voice, has blazed or
rugged scar inside of left wrist, and
having $50 marked on underwear es-
capped from the penitentiary recently.
81 Wichita O cornornf inr l-naun No