The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-12-28
KANSAS NOTES.

kANNAO NUIED.
immigration is pourin into Green
wood county.
The net receipts from the Art Loan
exhibition in Cherryvale recently were
S233.sO.
All the suits for attorneys fees i'm the
Usage ceded land suits have recently
been dismissed.
Company c., Sd Regiment X. 8. NJ
with flfty-six members has recently
been mustered i'm at Columbus.
Fifteen new buildings, 100 feet deep
and three or four stories high will be
erected in Winfield during 1884.
The Odd Fellows of Kansas are talk
ing of an excursion to Memphis,
Tenn, during the last week jim Janu-
airy.
/Oil has. been discovered at Wyan-
dotte, on Jersey Creek. Land in the
vicinity has more than doubled in val
ue and there is great excitement.
The Congregational churches in
Kansas are going to raise 81 Geo with
which to erect ladies' boarding house
at Washburn College. Topeka.
Atchison Champion The elevators
are so crowded with grain that orders
have been sent to country buyers to
bold up for few days. There were
200 cars OH the track yesterday after
noon.
A brutal murder was committed
near Paola last Thursday. George
Orr, seventeen years old, shot, killed
and robbed an aged blind man, named
Monroe Trimble, and badly injured
his wife. He got $50.
Franks Ne,rs, at Columbus, has
suspended, and i'm it's stead Mr..
Mcdowell will publish a five column
quarto, called ProhibitiOnist and
journal Of Reform. Too much name.
1t will be devoted to prohibition, and
claims to be independent politically.
a sale was made last week of 5000
acres of land in Stafford county near
Great Bend, Kansas, for Sl6O, 600. The
purchase was by capitalists of Staun-
ton, Virginia, with the purpose Of es-
tablishing colony of Dunkards OH the
land.
The amount and value of the grain
crop of Kansas for 1883 are as follows
Corn, 2OO, 600, 900 bushels, value $50 ,OOO,-
COO; wheat, 10000, 600 bushels, value
81, 1000. 600; rye, 5000, 900 bushels, value
S2,OOO,0 900; flax, 200, 900 bushels, value
sl,4lO,OOO. Total value, 500, 44O, 600.
The value of precious metals produced
in the United States during the past
year is S72,0o0,OOO, an excess in favor
of Kansas grain of about so, COCO
n
"My objections to buying Kansas
lands" said an Illinois farmer, address.
ing a Kansan at the late Stock Show,
seven at low figures is the almost en-
tire absence of tame grass. Wild grass
will never make such pasturage as our
Illinois tame grass"
True" replied the other, "but re-
member that thirty odd years ago you
had no tame grass in Illinois. and
when we have it in Kansas, you
won't be able to get our land at low
figures"
Marion Record: The boys" around
town were considerably agitated, last
Saturday, over the amusing spectacle
Of two young men trying to get away
with each other in a little love affair
Each Of them had that day procured g
license to marry the same girl, but one
them was too quick for the other and
captured the'prize. The rejected lover
accepts the situation philosophically
however. though we thought We could
read on his countenance sign some.
thing like this: Affections to let."
1t appears that the sugar works al
Sterling Kan, have done web enough
this season to justify the owners il
making extensive enlargmentsf for nex1
year. The Gazette says that among
the Improvements will be 40x6O two
story addition and an additional crush.
er will be put in, another mixer, six
more centrifugals, and other appliances
| too numerous to mention will make