The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-05-28
ALL OVER KANSAS.

ALL OVER KANSAS.
Concordia has voted bonds for water
works.
Garden City has imposed a $500 tax
Oh drummers.
The new Christian college at Wichita
is to be called Garfield University.
The population of Newton is q, $40, an
increase during the last year Of 1882.
A four inch vein Of coal has been
found near Newton ut the depth OF
about 200 feet.
The Commissioners of Cherokee coun-
ty have advertised for sealed bids to
construct II new court house at Col
umbus.
The city Of Sedan will vote June I'd
on a proposition to issue$2O, 900 in bonds
in aid of the Leroy & Caney Valley
Air Line railroad.
Kansas, despite the reports to the
contrary, will have winter wheat
enough to feed all her people, with sew
eral million bushel to sell.
The election in the new Kiowa coun-
ty settled the permanent county seat at
Greensburg and elected the Republican
ticket by 80 to $50 majority.
Clifton Ne,os: Who says blue grass
won't grow in Kansas? G.. w. Surber
presented US sample this week which
measures three feet in length.
The Northwest portion of Kansas is
having an abundance of rain, and the
settlers in consequence are greatly en-
couraged over the crop prospects.
VIM. Martindale has decided to
spend several thousand dollars in i'm
proving the water power at Burlington
and building a new Touring mill.
The publication of the Thayer Her.
aid will be discontinued June LIST.
Thayer is too small town for two pa
pers; in fact, it is "close picking for
one.
The Minneapolis Messenger of May
90, 1886, contains full list of the sur.
viving comrades of the Ninth Kansas
Cavalry. Members of the regiment
should send for it.
The Agricultural College Cadets,
armed uniformed and equipped, under
command of Lieut.. Nicholson, U. S. A.,
will take part in the Decoration Day
exercises at Manhattan.
The city council of Stockton, Rocks
have under consideration the
plan of building cyclone cave in the
business part of the city, capable of
several hundred people.
DIR. Johnson, of Atchison, states that
4 woman seventy three years old, liv-
ing at the corner of Seventh and Atch-
son streets, in that city, is cutting a
full set of dougle and single teeth.
The National Tribune, the soldiers
paper published at Washington, gives
Morrill,, of Kansas, the
credit of being the most efficient cham
pion of the soldiers interests in Con-
yress.
Garden City Sentinel: There is
much satisfaction to the farmer here
,bouts to go out to his ''lateral" ditch,
pull the plug from the box and let the
water skip over his fields, as they have
been doing this week.
1t is reported that in the extreme
western part of this state, farmers are
actually planting a large acreage of
'unflowers for fuel. 1t is claimed that
hey make splendid fuel-a hotter fire
han the best hard coal.
Great Bend Register: Some papers
las been Dragging about the number of
rees a man planted on his farm this
'pring. DR.. Kleuber has planted on
IFS farm, in the southeast part Of the
1900 trees this spring.
Ed. w. Howe of the Atclison Globe
las written another novel which is now |
n press by Ticknor & Co. The
lame of this third work is "a Moon
light Bay" We trust its worth will
ompel it to be run through many ed
tions.
George E. Clayton, newly appointed
at Wills, Brown county,
vas on Monday night taken out Of bed
" twenty men, blIndfolded, stripped,
aired and feathered, and in default of
rail, ridden around town on wagon
ongue.
Osborne Ne,0s: A gentleman of col
r was in town last week selling eggs.
The price asked was sixty cents dOz-
n and they went quite rapidly ut that
igure. AS an inducement to buy he
brew in the privilege ofthrowing them
t his head thrust through canvas.
his is a good and apparently lucrative
usiness, requiring but a small capital
nd only ordinary ability.
Kansas is, as has been said, a great
ract of s., 2SS. 600 acres, containing a
lrger amount of tillable land than any
ther state in the union. Thirty years
cultivation in the eastern part of the