The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-28
Miscellaneous.

SINCE January, 1882, ffty-six new rail.
| read companies in the State of Kansas
have filed articles of incorporation with
, the Secretary of State.
W. w. POINTER, a "greeney" of Winfield
was fleeced out of 500 by two confidence
men on the Santa Fe express between Kan.
sas City and Topeka the other day. They
sold him share in a silver mine.
SOPHIE WEST, of Kansas City, Kas.,
was brought up on remand before Judge
Angel, on the charge of concealing the
crime of infanticide, the child being the
newly born one of her daughter, which
was found deposited in an clubhouse of the
premises occupied by mother and daughter.
The evidence failed to sustain the charge
and the prisoner was set free.
THE Association of Fire Underwriters of
Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska held their
scmi-aDnual meeting at the Copeland Hotel
in Topeka, on the 18th.
LIBEL suit has been commenced against
the Clay Center Times by J. S. Harris of
that city, who claims that lis character
was damaged 5000 worth by a recent pub.
LEGATION in that paper. The trouble grew
out of whisky prosecution.
IT is estimated that ten per cent. of range
stock in Western Kansas has been lost
since last July. Vague rumors are that
heavy losses have occurred on the Beaver
and Canadian Rivers, but they are unau:
thenticated. Stock is all thin in flesh, and
another storm would DO great injury.
DELEGATES from five Kansas colleges
met at Topeka, recently, and organized tho
State Oratorial Association. The first
State contest will be held at the State Uni.
versity at Lawrence, April IS, and the sue
cessful orator will represent Kansas in the
Interstate contest at Iowa City in May.
Eugene Ware, o. s. Munsell and Professor
Greenwood, Of Kansas City. have been in.
vited to act as judges.
THE conference of the NJ. E. Church closed
last week at Newton. Hon. ]. NJ. Simpson,
Of Mcpherson County, was elected lay del
egate to the General Conference. Rev.
Barris, of Eldorado, was appointed to the
pastorate of the church at Newton. Rev.
B. Kelly goes to Winfield and Rev. Phillips
to Wichita.
WORK on the Newton waterworks is pro-
crossing rapidly. Much of the material is
vi INC sTOuNu anu tue CONTRACTORS declare
that they will have water running through
the mains within sixty days. The system
will cost about $4,000. 1t will be the first
in the State for a town the size of Newton.
IL North Wyandotte resides quite
number of colored men who have white
women for their wives. In the same COM
there are some twenty-five or
thirty French creoles. men and women.
PRAYER, the murderer of the Pennington
family at Marysville, was convicted last
week after lengthy trial. The murder
was an atrocious one, Prayer escaping to
Nebraska, where he was arrested. The
lay after his conviction a number of
armed men broke into the Jail and took
aim to the wagon bridge over Spring Creek,
where he was hung.
81. r. E." WRITING from Manhattan,
iesires the Legislature to pass law pun.
shing persons who allow their cattle to
root hog or die" during the winter on the
Kansas plains. He says the dead carcasses
# such cattle and the starved condition of
he living are shame.