The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-23
KANSAS NOTES.

Parsons il to have q new daily paper
called the Pallddi,n,.
Remember that ii is no longer Bar
bour, but Barber county.
Stockmen's convention called to
meet at Dodge City, March 3Oth.
The A. o. u. w. of Kansas numbers
Ily.lodges, with ssh members.
There has been but one death in the
vicinity of Logan In six months.
The Fort Scott school board asks for
$4,000 to build new school house.
1t is sure thing that Wichita
mule gave birth to colt the other day.
The Wichita Weekly Leader is re-
vived by its former publishers, Field
aud Mcconnell.
Coal has been discovered twenty feet
below the surface and four feet thick
at Genda Springs.
"Governor' Sharpe will be one Of
the editors of new Democratic paper
to be started in Topeka?
A little boy of Coffeyville started for
= Ohio without cent In his pocket, and
made the trip all right.
Eldorado is sure of being the end of
one division of the st. Louis, Fort
Scott 4 Wichita railroad.
There is $1,000 in the Atchison
treasury, and the city owes nothing
beyond $4,000 in bonds.
A lump of coal from mine in Usage
contained a petrified sunfish or rock
bass, almost perfect.
Sidney Clarke, of Kansas, will be
private secretary Of Senator Thos. NJ.
Bowen, of Colorado, but formerly of
Kansas"
Five years ago no land of any &C.
count was taken up in Kingman
county; now four-fifths of the. county
is proven up.
8, Good reports come in of 'the~benefit
to,wheat by the late::rains, and it's
not thought..the freeze was sufficient
to cause much damage.
The Walnut Valley Times Is thir-
teen years old. Alvah Sheldon, its
editor, has been re-appointed post
master at Eldorado.
Montgomery county, Kas., raised 200
bales of cotton in 1882. The average
yield per acre was three-fourths of a
bale; equal to twenty bushels Of corn.
The Missouri, Winfield and: South
western railroad project has met with
encouragement and substantial back
ing far beyond the most sanguine ex-
pectation of its projectors.
The Beloit Courier, in a letter from
its editor, at Topeka, says Ex-Gov. st.
John is employed by the National
Temperance Alliance, at a salary of
$4,000 a year.
Excursipnists are coming into the
State by the thousand. Each of the
large trunk. railroads runs an excur-
sion from the east to this State every
week.
Judge McCleverty, a Democratic
member of the legislature, is pro-
nounced by all critics to be one of the
ablest debaters on the floor of the
House.
The Senate has passed bill remov-
ing the scnool for imbecile children
from Lawrence to Winfield. What is
the use of moving the institution
Why not let it remain where 1t is.
A novel contest at Chautauqua
Springs, sometime in April, will be a
hundred-dollar prize dinner to be got
ten up by two ladies, and decided by
twelve couples to be chosen by the
contestants.
Columbus pays $500 to the first wa
ter wagon with the tank FULLY that ar
rives on the ground in case of fire,
and the second conner gets $3.50, but
neither must be over thirty minutes
behind the alarm.
Mr.. Charles II. Branscombe, who
piloted and located the first settlers at
Lawrence in this State, is coming back
70 live on his farm near Lawrence.
He has been away for a long while
part OF the time as u. 8. consul at
Manchester, England.
Leavenworth Press: "Kansss is
twenty-five years old. The wild oats
of lusty youth have all been Gown.
The boy of the border was little way
ward iu his youth, but he had pluck
and earnest and honest convictions
and dared stand up for them. The
youth has made the world admit that
his convictions were right"
GAYLORD Herald: 1.-THE railroad COM
pany keeps load of coal on the road
from Atchison to Gaylord ten days,
and the train hands steal from it all
the time. The first load that came
here was hitched on behind the ca
boose to be handy, and before it was
side-tracked the train men filled up
their coal box from it. Every car of
coal received here Is from one to two
tons short"
An old soldier would be thankful to
any person who can tell the where
abouts of z. A, Smith. late captain In |