The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-30
KANSAS NOTES.

an unuSal area 10 lax.
Mcpherson will form fire company
for protection in the future.
Two women are in the Marion coun.
ty jail for selling whiskey.
Yates Center is to have a fine new
school house. lola needs one.
Wichita will shortly have water
works, street cars and creamery.
Illinois farmers are getting their
seed corn frosa Brown county, Kansas.
The "Spy of Atlanta" is the coming
attraction in half dozen Kansas
towns.
Every newspaper in Kansas :seems
hopeful of a boom for its town this
spEing.
Florence is to have a new Catholic
Church, and a residence for the parish
priest.
The Abilene Gazette thinks that
John A. Martin will he the next Gov
ernor of Kansas.
Spring elections are causing good
deal of excitement in some of the
larger towns.
A %hillips county farmer raised nine.
pigs which weighed 279 pounds each
at nine months old.
Mcpherson county has sold during
the year 800 tons of broom corn, and
has yet on hand ] 200 tons.
Emporia will build another school
house this spring. Six thousand dol
lars in bonds are to he voted.
Judge Scion o. Thacher contemp-
lates spending year i'm Europe: He
will be accompanied by his family.
The ground plows up i'm unusually
good shape, owing to the thorough
freezing of the past winter.
six hundred and twenty-eight resi-
dents of Wellington have petitioned
the city council to enforce the liquor
law.
Eight or ten thousand dollars is nes
an extraordinary price 90 say for Il
good farSa in Kansas and buyers are
aumeross st these figures.
This ia the time of year when the
average wealthy citizen commences 10
!eow very respectfully to the assessor of
his district.
Parsons palpitates with the hope
chat 1t will soon have creamery cap
able of turning out 500 pounds of but
ter per day.
In Justices court at ;Concordia, it
has been decided that the wearer, not
the tailor, is the judge whether clothes
fit or not.
John Mackee has been appointed by
the president to the Leavenworth
passo6ice. 1t Was decided that a va
easey existed, Col. Anthony's commits
ssea having expired more than a year
sgo.
Fort Scott says that what she needs
rnore than anything else is number
of small houses erected i'm the outskirts
of the town, and renting for from S. to
$l4 per month. These are what every
city i'm the state needs.
Senator Blue secured an appropria-
ton of 81 600 from the State, to pay for
tRe erection of monument to the
txarsary Of the victims of the Marais
Aes Cygnes massacre.
Mrs. Cunningham, Of CoxIey eoun-
ty. used very abusive language to her
husband the other night, and alnos!
immediately fell dead. Wives will
please take notice.
T&e order of the Missouri Pacific
road that poae of its employees shall
drink liquor on or Off duty has been
received by the press of this and other
states with general favor.
Peabody has been shipping a num-
Der of $40 steers the past week.
Eighty thousand dollars worth of
stock has been shipped from that sta
ton since last December.
Rev. A. II. Lackey, of Peakody, has
sold his fine herd of cattle for IS, 500.
There were i2s head. Mr.. Luckey
will stN remain in the stock business,
b<t Sandle fewer than heretofore.
4 successful tree grower says he digs
large hole aud when setting the tree
mixes Che top soil with water to the
consistency Of soft mortar, and then
imbeds the roots iS Eis mixture. The
soil thus adberes 10 Ese roots, and a
certain growth is the reskzIt.
The machinery continues 10 arrive
almost daily for the new sugar works
at Kinsley, and the buildings are rap
aaly approaching completion. The
boilezs are all in place, and consider
able PARTON of the other machinery.
Butter county is again in the
Ehroes Of county seat fight. Augusta
leads taae stacking column with a
strong petition aud a bonus of 81, 900
in the shape of county buildings. A
scheme was concocted in the last leg
islature to divide the county, but it
WAS killed.
TIE Junction City SCHOOLS are doing
a very desirable S.aing, and other
schools throughout the State would
do yCp1I m foIIoxy bay ovar,,.I. Ill.,