The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-02
KANSAS NOTES.
Fredonia win explore for coal.


pect of six story hotel.
Kansas pays $4,000 year to COL
lect Its own school money.
There are still $1,000 acres of govern
ment land in Osborn county.
1t takes forty-five thousand men to
fill all the offices in this State.
Wichita claims to have $500 young
trees on one of her avenues.
Greenwood county has organized a
wool growers association.
At present there are but two paupers
at the Mcpherson county poor farm.
Two artesian wells are being put
down by the government i'm western
Kansas.
The smallpox scare at Galena is
about over, the disease being under
control.
Fort Scott cohtemplates building a
large and substantial fre-proof hotel
this year.
The printers on the Topeka Capital
struck a few days ago, and that paper
is advertising for compositors.
VIM. n. Clough, one of the most
prominent attorneys in the State, died
last Friday at Leavenworth.
A ten-weeks' revival at Louisburg,
by the Methodist church, resulted in
the conversion of l50 persons.
Mcpherson broom corn dealers are
holding for better prices. About 400
tons are stored there.
Governor Click has appointed Hon.
John Martin judge of the LIST judicial
district, successor to Judge Morton,
resigned. ......
The shops of the Great Western man.
nfacturing company, of Leavenworth.
were totally destroyed by fire Sunday
afternoon. Loss, $4,000.
A Linn county man shot an owl
that measured five feet and two inches
from tip to tip of his wings, and his
horns were six inches long.
A Fredonia merchant keeps exposed
I'm show case a card headed "walk
up and SETTLE" i'm which the names of
bad customers, together with the
amounts of their Indebtedness, are ex-
hibited to the public.
w. w. Walton wants short term
prison located at Clay Center, and has
introduced bill in the house appro-
priating $4,000 to erect it. Senator
Ware is advocating the same kind of
an institution for Fort Scott.
A Cherryvale dealer bought and
shipped since October 202, 9l0 quails,
252 grouse, S2S RABBITS, 81 jack rabbits, %
squirrels, 100 wild ducks and S54
pounds dressed wild turkeys.
There are some sixteen physicians
I'm the house. The fact Is the State il
so distressingly healthy that the doc
tors have but little to do I'm a profess
sional way, and consequently embrace
opportunities to make statesmen of
themselves.
Senator Plumb's bill for the relief of
settlers on the Usage Indian lands in
Southern Kansas, provides that after
the passage it shall he legal for all set
tiers located on, and those who may
hereafter locate on these lands, to avail
themselves of the homestead act, with
all its amendments, and the tree cul-
ture act, with all its amendments.
Thomas INLAY and wife, living near
Leavenworth, recently celebrated the
SEVENTEEN anniversary of their we'd
ding. Mr. INLAY is 81 years old, and
his wife is four years hisjunior. They
were married when he was % and she
is. Mr. INLAY is of Scotch descent.
He has 12O grandchildren and enough
great-grandchildren to make the full
line of descent number 500.
AS an evidence that the land in the
irrigation district tributary to Gar
den City is rapidly advancing in val
lie, the northwest quarter of section
six, two and half miles northwest of
town, sold last spring for $500, and re-
sold over a month ago for 81 900 cash.
A Springfield, Ohio party was the last
purchaser.
Sumner county Press: There has
been some rare sport and good profit as
well, the past week, on the river
spearing fish through holes cut in the
ice. One party caught two hundred
pounds one day. They cut hole in
the ice, and then go below and pound
on the ice and drive the fish up to the
hole where they are speared."
At the meeting of the Grand Army |
of the Republic encampment, held i'm
Wyandotte last week, 1S7 posts were
represented, having an aggregate en-
rollment of 1852. The following of
ficers were elected for the ensuing
year: Department commander, It. J.
Anderson, Topeka; senior vice COM
mander, H. l.. Willard, Sterling; junior
vice commander, II. w. Pond. Fort
Scott; sergeant.::J. s. Chase, Lyons;
II. ID. Teany, Junction City;
assistant adjutant general; II. =. Dew