The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-05-25
KANSAS NOTES.

of the state.
Butler county is the largest in the
State-l42S square miles.
Children moi allowed on the streets
at Winfield after dark. Good idea.
An Atchison lady has a book of
poems ignonette''-in press.
Forest Park, Ottawa, has new am
phitheatre capable of seating $500 peo-
pie.
The people of Kansas are in better
financial condition than they have ev-
er been.
Eldorado Catholics contemplate
building e fine church edifice in that
town.
The Wichita waterworks have been
completed: niue miles of mains have
been laid.
1t is expected that q large number of
Kentucky negroes will exodust to-
Kansas this year.
Clark NJ. Mckinney, of Butler coun-
ty, was convicted of murder i'm the first
degree for killing Fl. M. Reeder.
Mr.. Carter, of Bronson, showed his
skill as a marksman the other day by
killing sixteen rabbits at two shots.
Coal was found in digging well.
near Burlington, last week. A shaft
will be sunk and the vein examined.
The State Fair Association has trou-
BILE in electing president. Premiums
will be offered to the amount Of $4,000
this year.
The Kansas Prohibitionjst, of Col
umbus, has received an order for 3d.
600 copies ofthat paper, to be distribute
ed i'm Ohio.
Owing to the great demand, skilled
labor is well paid in Kansas this year.
Every carpenter and mason has all the
work he can do.
Gov. Click is being urged to call an
extra session of the Legislature for
next winter to finish up the work left
over by the last body.
An old Indiana farmer gives it as his
opinion that corn roots deeper in Kan
sas than in eastern States, hence it
can and does stand drouth better.
An eve belonging to flock of David
Wolf, of Summit township, Cloud
county, recently gave birth to four
lambs, all of which are alive and
thriving.
The Wichita Eagle claims that Sedg-
wick county will have 10000 acres of
corn this year, instead of 132, lS7 as es-
timated by the state agricultural
department.
The journeymen carpenters of Atch-
ison have accepted the present acceded
wages, S2.25 per day, but insist that
they want $3.50 after June Is, or they
will strike from all jobs.
Fowler & Heg, Beloit, Kansas, start
ed a creamery at that place last Octo-
Der, and are now running twelve teams
gathering cream, making ! 200 pounds
of butter per day. The same could be
done here.
The street arabs of Bronson make
daytime hideous by swearing in sew
en- different languages. The editor of
the Pilot says he was boy once, but
he confesses he could not keep mp with
the modern boy.
Three men-Foley, Allen, and
Rhinel,art, of Parsens-were fined $500
each and costs last week, for selling
liquor. This shows that when officers
do their duty, either prohibition can be
made to prohibit, or become very ex-
pensive amusement to the law break
ers.
The aggregate liabilities Of the Har-
ris bank at Olathe, which failed few
days age, reaches the sum of $50, 620.33.
1t is claimed the reverend banker was
in the habit of playing poker, and
that he was a stakeholder In one of
st. Johns gold mines. He has been
lodged in Jail.
At the late meeting of the Editorial
Association of Kansas, the following
gentlemen were elected officers for the
ensuing year: Ftp. Baker president;
Albert Griffin, Geo. w. Sweesy, ID. A.
Wilmington and d. R. Anthony, vice
presidents; ]. II. Downing, secretary;
"A. P. Riddle, orator; Noble L. Prentis,
poet.
The Kansas Sportsman's association
will hold their annual meeting at For
rest park, May %, to continue five days.
Noted sportsmen from all parts of the
country have signified their intention
to be present. Five thousand wild
pigeons will be furnished by w. w.
Judy of st. Louis. Large prizes will
be offered. and a match between Bo-
gardus and Erb is being planned.
An exchange says the time is not far
distant when choice bottom land in the
interior conntiessof the state viii be
worth fifty dollars an acre. The man
who owns a first-rate farm and is out
of debt is the coming nabob. The
town people have been prosperous in
years past, and it is now the farnr's
turn. Kansas farm lands are just as
valuable as those of any of the western