The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-16
KANSAS NOTES.
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there are 400 school QlStr1ctS III
Kansas
The Bradley murder case is on trial
at Fort Scott.
Clay Center is going to have water
works. Cost $4,000.
Galena had a $1,000 fire Thursday
morning, fully insured.
Kansas railroads spent over $500, 600
In advertising our State last year.
Labette county in the past year re-
duced her bonded debt nearly $4,000.
Rev. Campbell, the temperance lee
turer, makes his headquarters at Man.
haitian.
The editor of the Girard Press has
been appointed post master a: that
place.
The Burlington Patriot has disoon-
tinued its daily edition. 1t did not
pay.
An Atchison boy who was coasting
down hill mashed his head by running
into lamp post.
The Lawrence vinegar works went
up In flames on the Sd instant, with a
loss of $4,000.
a Sedgwick county farmer sold 200
worth Of products from $50 acres dur
ing the last year. ..
A force from the Leavenworth
bridge company are constructing a
bridge across Fall river at Eureka.
1t cost the state of Kansas $50 20 to
publish notice of a change in the fis-
cal agency in the New York Tribune.
The Cherryvale Torch thinks COM
mittee on STOOL bills' is one of the
pressing requirements Of our legista-
ture. ....
Dodge City stockmen are working
up scheme to have grand meeting
of the stockmen of western Kansas
held at that point March 10th.
1t is thought that the Chicago & AL
ton railroad will build branch of
their line from Higginsville, No., to
Fort Scott.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railroad Company won six district
premiums at the Garfield Monument
fair at Washington for displays of
Kansas products.
John Hood, a Pleasanton banker.
who died recently, bequesthed $1,000
to the Masonic lodge of that town, and
$1,000 to each one Of the churches.
The new dress in which the Atchi-
son Champion is clothed improves its
appearance, and the contents are as
bright and interesting as ever.
A Chanute editor has the unblush-
Ing mendacity to say: "The sweet
melody Of bluebird greeted our ears
Monday morning."
A fellow was fined S3S at Hutchin-
son for assauiting an editor who had de-
nounced the rowdy for creating a dis
turbance at the opera house.
Two neighbors down in Mcpherson
measure In height, respectively, six
feet nine inches, and three feet four
inches. Might they not properly be
called the long and short of the county?
There are strong indications that the
time for township elections will be
changed to fall. A large number of
bills to accomplish this objec, have al.
ready been introduced in the house.
Ex-Governor St. John is meeting
considerable opposition in his eastern
trip. The papers claim that as he
failed to reform Kansas he cannot well
reform the world.
They have struck gas we'll near
Marion while boring for water. A
man who tested its infiammability
was convinced by being blown over
and scorched.
Coffeyville folks are certain that oil
underlies their city. They have struck
1t several times in digging wells and
cellars. A systematic search for a pay
ing quantity is proposed.
A Neosho county man, who is sink
ing q shaft for general results, first
struck deposit of carbonate of zinz
and fine zinc blende; then a stratum
of poor camel coal; next, black oxide
Of iron and magnesia; and last, at the
depth of sixty-five feet, fred and green
oxide mingled with sheets Of metal re-
sembling copper and lead"
About ten per cent of the sheep in
the Arkansas valley were lost in the
late storms. Cattle also suffered dis
astrously. Stock men hope this is the
last severe storm Of the season, and are
full Of hope for the future, as feed is
plentiful and range good. |
The Nethodists of Emporia dedi-
Gated q very handsome aew church,
On Sunday last. It cost SIS, $50, ofwhich
amount s., 646 had been paid, and the
balance was subscribed on the day the
church was dedicated. The new
church Is built of Cottonwood stone,
and is said TO be enc of the finest
church ediflces in Kansas.
The senate has confirmed the an
pointnents Of Messrs. Guthrie, of
Hutehsson. Watts, of Lawrence, and
II. II. Lowry, Of Marshall, as trustees