The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-01-26
KANSAS NOTES.

OF water works.
The Masonic fraternity of Salina have
purchased block Of buildings for
$500.
Fifteen German immigrants arrived
at Marysville last week direct from
Germany.
The Globe says that 800, 900 head OF
cattle were sold on the Dodge City
market last year.
Two artisan wells are being put
down by the government near the
western line of Kansas.
Hon. B. w. Perkins, J. H. Harrison
and J. NJ. Bowman have formed u law
partnership at Oswego.
Leavenworth claims to have a far
greater number of manufacturing es-
Establishments than Kansas City.
Oberlin Neps: Salina. claims to
have a rooster that has had its head
cut off over a month ago, aud is still
living.
There were LAO building permits
issued IN Topeka during the past year,
for buildings to cost over a million OF
dollars.
I.eavenworth will have three big
booms this year-the bridge boom, the
public building boom, and the settle
ment of her public debt question.
A jewelry store and butcher shop
burned at Chanute on Friday night OF
last week. Much of the contents OF
the store were saved, the loss being
light.
For some time past they have been
boring for coal i'm Garrett. After
sinking depth of 555 feet they gave
it up, owing TO its caving in about the
point of the drill.
The Olathe city council at their last
session, passed an ordinance prohibit
ing minors playing in billiard halls
without the written consent of their
parents.
There have been planted in Kansas
since its settlement 10000 acres of
forest trees. In the same time there
have been over 10000, 900 fruit trees
set out.
Said Boston schoolma'm after
reading Kansas newspaper, "How
aesthetic these western people are
they speak of the little male calves us
COW boys"
An Abilene, Kan, preacher declined
a raise of 500 the congregation offered
him. He gave as a reason that the
hardest part of his ministerial duties
had been the collection of his salary,
and he did not want the annoyance
increased.
Charles Lewis, lad fourteen years
of age, has been missing since July 20,
1852, when he suddenly disappeared
from the home of I. H. Lewis. ANY
Indignation concerning his where
abouts will be thankfully received by
his father, Jacob Lewis, Kinsley,
kapsas.
An old citizen of Doniphan county
Who owns valuable property here, told
US the other day that he would like to
take the Chief, but he WIS taking a
paper from st. Jo., one from Chicago
and two from Michigan, besides a re.
aigious paper, and that was about all
he could rea =, or was able to pay for
We hope that he finds his county at.
fairs fully set forth in those papers,
Troy Chief.
Parsons Sun: Several persons have
signified their intention of opening
Neutrality-suspicious. by paying, in accord
ance with the city ordinance, So
monthly into the City Treasury. BY
this ordinance the city agrees not Il
prosecute such persons as compl,
with its requirements, but all sucl
dealers are still liable under the state
law, and may be prosecuted at an,
time by the County Attorney.
The Pacific shops at parsons have
been doing great deal of work during
the past year. Sixty-nine locomotive.
have been thoroughly overhauled and
sent out to all parts of the line, and
oyer S3O0,000 worth of material ha:
been manufactured. The foundry ha.
made 2,5e0 600 pounds of iron castings
The switches for the entire Gould sys
tenn of roads are sent out from ties,
shops, and a large amount of Other
work. The wages paid out to the shot
employees alone during the past veal
exceed $4,000.
The Capital is reminded by the
Atehison Champion fire of one or two
other interesting items in the history
of that paper. ut was entirely de.
stroyed by fire in May, 1859. A new
office was put in and publication of the
paper resumed ia three weeks after the
calamity. There is good deal of his
tory of one kind and another conR ect-
ed with the Champion, a curious frag-
ment of which is that it was run un-
der lease for a couple of years, while
Col. Martin sEas in the army, by opr
present senior United States Senator.
John j. Ingalls,, and our present. Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court, Albert
III Horton