The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-04-27
KANSAS NOTES.

or was tie.
Douglass County compromised sa7,-
600 of bonds last week.
The peach crop in Southern Kansas
is reported safe.
Pierson Bros. of Lawrence are build
ing q foHr story elevator.
Humboldt is moving for a cream
lery. lola ought to have one.
Wheat was never better than at
present in johnson county.
Fort Scott claims to have gained
1880 in population during 1882.
Wichita derives about 5000 in rev.
eEue from her saloons per year.
The assessors in different parts of
the state show a heavy increase in val
ues.
Ottawa is to have a sugar refinery
IL connection with the syrup factory
now in operation there.
Columbus is TO have an oil mill, II
sufficient amount of castor beans is
sown in the country.
ex-governor Geo. t. Anthony is the
owner of a street railway in the city
of Chihuahua, Mexico.
LaCygne people are trying to get
the Santa Fe road to build branch
from Douglas county to that city.
The sugar refinery industry is spread
ing with wonderful rapidity in Kan
sas. 1t is bound to make Kansas rich.
The attractive young ladies of Man.
haitian add to their lavish charms by
horseback riding. A good custom
revived.
The press i'm some portions of the
State are severely criticising the mali
agement of the Ossawatomie insane
asylum.
Mrs. Emma J. Bratton recovered
$3.50 damages from a Lyndon saloon
keeper for making an habitual drunk
ard of her husband.
Twenty-three hands were discharged
from the K. c., l.. & 5. X, at Ottawa,
the other day. The Santa Fee manage
ment is cutting down expenses.
Judge S. o. Thacher, wife and daugh-
tiers will sail for Europe OH the 9th of
May. The Judge will return in few
months, the ladies remaining year.
The Record proposes each of the
twenty-one townships of Rocks county
be given row of trees to plant in court
house yard at Stockton on Arbor day.
There are in the Marion county Jail,
two women convicted of selling liquor,
and man convicted of having bribed
witness in liquor case to run away.
The Camp Fire, organ of the G. "A.
r.. i'm Kansas, has been enlarged. 1t
is published at Cawker City, and is an
earnest exponent of the principles OF
that patriotic order.
The next meeting of the Grand
Lodge, X. p. will be held at Emporia
on May 10th. Prizes are offered to the
amount of Si75 for the best drilled Di-
visions and Lodges.
Hops are now so dear that they are
called the brewers diamonds" and
$4,000 worth in stock is not uncom-
mon at a single brewery. Why don't
they raise hops in Kansas?
An Usage Mission man is charged
with killing his own boy. He denies
e. il and says the boy shot himself acct
dentally, but the boy, before he died
said his father shot him and the moth
er believes it.
Rev. Campbell and NJ. V. B. Ben
nett were rotten-egged at Winfield
after the close of an enthusiastic tenn
perance meeting. The Girard Pres:
APPLY remarks that rotten eggs are one
of whisky's best arguments.
Journal: The Lawrence sugar
works is now settled enterprise, and
the establishment Of another manufac
turing industry Of a considerable mag
nitude is almost decided upon, Law.
renee is certainly becoming a great
manufacturing center.
Ex-Gov. Samuel ]. Crawford, O.
Kansas, has formed law partnership
at Washington City. with Mr.. w. L
s. Turtis, formerly connected with the
law firm of Shellabarger & Wilson
They Will practice in all the courts
and departments.
AT the annual meeting of the Santa
Fe Company at Topeka last Friday,
William b. Strong We elected
president OF the Board of Directors.
His name, with Tonzalin, vice-presi-
dent, and Wheeler, General Manager,
ENSURES the continued good manage
ment of the great line that is doing
Ianch for Kansas.
Gen. Pearson, who was counsel for
Mrs. Carpenter in.the late divorce suit,
was interviewed on his return to Pitts
bureh, and describes Erie as dirty
little town, Judge Talcott as a gentle
manly little fellow, the court room as
very primitive, aad the witnesses and
court as on terms OF obtrusive famil-
iarity. He says Col. Carpenter will be
beaten in the Supreme court.
Il. Dwight Thatcher will nublish the