The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-23
KANSAS NOTES.


WyandOtte is about to light up her
principal street with gas.
Tie members OF The Kansas legisla-
ture worked nine days without pay.
A prairie-fire, near Coffeyville, burn
ed 1880 sheep owned by party
named Landers,
A fire at Leroy, on Friday eve
ming, March eth, consumed several
business houses.
Tits reported that Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor Finney viii be one of the rail-
road commissioners.
A boy and girl of Pottawatomie
county ate of wild parsnip, and both
Were fatally poisoned.
Superintendent Pagan reports that
there are 100000 bushels of corn at
Concordia awaiting cars.
Salina derives 81, 800 from her saloons.
Kansas business men are tearing out
the old shells and building of brick or
stone instead.
Payne, the Oklahoma boomer, is to
start up his paper, the War Chief, at
Gauda Springs, this state.
The Santa Fe has commenced the
building Of new, handsome stone
station at Emporla, 40 by 100 feet, two
stories high.
The legislature passed the bill to
give the city OF lawrence it's Sl00, 600
bonds now owned by the State school
fund.
Miss Cora Curns, of Fort Scott, has
Just made her debut in st. Louis, and
has taken dramatic circles of that city
by storm.
Lawrence, relieved of her University
bonds, and site for the Indian school
secured, thinks she is entitled to eX-
pect boom.
On the third of April Wellington
will vote on the proposition to issue
$50, 900 in bonds for the purpose of con-
structing water works in that city.
Very truly the Newton Republican
says that March winds will continue TO
play provokingly around until the
country is protected by hedges and
groves.
1t costs twelve times as much per
year to run the city of Boston as it
does to run the State of Kansas, and
we have three times as many people
as Boston.
Salina has raised the money TO pnt
1 ,5G0-foot hole into the ground i'm
search of coal. There seems to he solid
grit behind the enterprise, and we wish
ii unbounded success.
Harry MCGEE, of Thayer, Neosho
county, was fined sl0O for violating the
prohibitory law, and not having the
necessary funds on hand to satisfy
outraged justice he was placed in the
county Jail.
The Fredonia Citizen says the Kan
sas Railroad Company haa fitted up
office headquarters over Butin & Bro. s
drug store. Capt. c. G.. Waite, the
chief engineer, makes it the scene OF
his labor, andH. B. Harding keeps
him company when not busy with
outside work.
A Wellington man took morphine
as an antidote to marital unhappiness,
but the doctor gave him an emetic and
saved him. He then tried two OF
three other modes of suicide. and was
finally put in Jail and kept there till
he promised to behave himself.
Speaking Of peculiarities, appear
ance, hobbies, ambitions and virtues Of
our national legislators Washington
letter to the Cleveland Leader says
"Haskell, of Kansas, thinks he has
q chance at the white house." and
in the senate Senator Ingalls, is the
best debater."
The Leavenworth sugar factory is
grinding above five thousand bushels
Of corn daily, which is purchased at
about forty cents per bushel, making
the expenditure for corn about seven
hundred thousand dollars per year.
They manufacture twelve thousand
five hundred gallons Of syrup daily,
and ship on an average five car loads
per day.
J. B. Folks informs the Wellington
Press that he has been conyersant
with the progress of the manufacture of
sorghum sugar from its inception at
Champaign. Illinois. He pronounces
it a grand success, and gives several
intances, among them his brother-in-
law, where men had sold out and in
vested their last dollar in the enter
prise after seeingits practical workings.
There are S72 newspapers published
In Kansas. Of these, g are dailies,
3lS weeklies, twenty monthlies, .
quarterlies and semi-monthlies. Dbl
are Republican in politics, AZ are DEM
Ocestie, 20 Greenback, SO Independent,
j neutral. II religious, S agricult ural,
s educational and literary, . soldiers
papers and miscellaneous.
A man digging a cellar at Newton,
a few days ago, discovered the skeIe-
ton of a mastodon. It was unearthed.
and measured I6l feet high and 20, feet