The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-05-07

once be made public, without regard
to either personal friendship or person
al enmity.-Atchison Champion.
ALL OVER KANSAS.
Dodge City is soon to have electric
lights.
Elk county sold her;;$4O, 900 bonds fol
siO,sOO.
There are 500 knights of Pythias in
Leavenworth.
Beloit is soon to vote OH PROPOSE.
ton to put in waterworks costing S26
900.
Governor John A. Martin has con.
scented to deliver the Decoration day
grafton at Wichita.
Coffey county has been defrauded OF
over $1,000 in the past two years by
defaulting county officials.
The Southern Kansas Trotting assoc
iation will have trial of speed at Wei
lington, May Is, 10 and 20.
A vein of coal six feet thick has been
discovered in Cheyenne county, in the
northwest corner arkansas.
The creamery at Oskaloosa is now
using about 500 pounds of milk per
day and shipping butter to Topeka and
Kansas City.
A Wichita man sold four and a half
acres of land near that town the other
day for $40, 500 which in 1874 he pur-
chased for $3.50.
Jacob Stotler, editor of the yelling
ton Press, has been appointed Chair
man of the State Board of Charities in
place of Philip Krohn.
Ex-Governor John p. st. John has
sold his residence property at Olathe
and purchased in Topeka :where he
will reside In the future.
A number of the ladies ofJewell City
have promised themselves that they
will not again buy hat the trimming
of which will cost bird its life.
William Clarkson, of Atchison, COM
mitted suicide at Maroa, ILL.,, because
he could not get back to Kansas, and
did not wantto stay in Illinois. He
was q years old.
Three buildings at Burlington. Kan
sas, were burned on the 18th, among
them the Republican newspaper Office,
nothing but a job press, paper cutter
and few fonts of type being saved.
State Superintendent of instruction,
Lawhead, estimates the amount :of
school land in Kansas remaining I'M
sold at $4,000 acres. The permanent
school fund now on interest amounts to
50, $4,000.
The Union Pacific, and Santa Fe
roads alone, it is estimated are carrying
about 5000 settlers per month to the
western part of Kansas and Nebraska.
The tide of immigrating west this
spring is something wonderful.
The wealth of Kansas has undergone
a wonderful augmentation. In round
numbers the true valuation of property
in Kansas in 1860 was S3l, OOO, 600; in
1865, $4,000, 900; in 1870, SlSS, OOO, 900;
in 1876, s232, 600. 600; in 1880. 1921 ,OoO,-
600; and in 1886, ss5O. 100000.
The Kansas Methodist reports over
Il, 200 additions to the Methodist church
in Kansas on probation, and a net gain
of over 5000 full members and an in
crease Of over 5000 in collections for
and over $4,000 for minis
terial support during the past year.
This makes splendid showing for the |
Methodist church of Kansas.
Governor Martin and Attorney Gen.
eral Bradford haye made a contract |
with Barker, Gleed & Gleed and Peck |
4 johnson to assist the state in the
United States supreme court in the
Eases against August 'Walruff and
Fritz Iseman, of Lawrence, and Peter
Mugler of Salina. A retainer of 81 900
las been paid under the resolution of
Senator Blue, adopted last winter.
The following is CLEANED from the
itote-DemOcrat's list of the wealthiest
men in Kansas: Judge: Scion o. Thach-
r, lawyer, of Lawrence. is estimated to
re worth Sl25, 900. Hon. e. n. Morrill,,
'anker, of Hiawatha, and q member of
has wealth estimated at $780,
90. Leonard Il. Smith,, capitalist. of
.eavenworth, president of the Leav-
nworth, Northern and Southern rail-
Dad is quoted..at 500, OO0.; flames w.
'arker, OF Atehison, mail contractor,
J said to be--worth s, 100000. HE is
he owner Of eighteen quarter sections
land in Liberty township, Linn {
ounty.] In Fort Scott are these ono :
itions: Charles F. Drake, $3.50, coo; q
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