The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-08-15


Injecting, shows a highly gratifyin,
decrease in the general rate. TIL
levy for State purposes is 40 cents a
against As cents last year: that 70
county general revenue 60 az agains
: 20 last year; that for bridge bonds i
. as against 16, while that for railroad
bonds remains the same, leaving tn
, total 81 .35as against 81 .55 i'm 1889. TIL,
levy i'm all the townships cannot h,
made accurately until returns are il
from all the school districts, bu
it is certain that I'm nearly il not quit,
all of them the rate will be substan
TALLY reduced. This is what we ge
for submitting to a high assessment
A great many people were uneasy
when this assessment was made les
it should entail upon US more than oul
share of the burden of the State taxes
A letter from the State Auditor, how
ever, shows that Allen county wa.
allowed rebate of Is per cent. pn the
assessment-thisr rebate amounting t.
$3.50, 964--while the total amount O
taxes required of the county this veal
is S13, O95. I3,-nearly 800 dollars les:
than last year. The result of this il
seen in the reduction i'm the rate fol-
State taxes of cents OH the hundred
dollars. This brings the assurance
that If we should assess our property
at actual value we should not pay a
| cent more than our just share of the
State taxes; and we hope this will be
done next year.
Bya private letter from Homer Hen
bricks we learn that the facts i'm the
case of his conflict with the county at
torney were as follows: In the town
of Elgin. in which Mr.. H. lives, pub
lie sentiment is such that saloons are
are permitted to run wide open so that
no man can be 80 blind as not to know
that the traffic is carried on. The
county attorney attempted to put an
end to the traffic and in order to get
| information on which to swear out a
warrant, summoned a number of BUSH
ness men of Elgin, among them Mr..
Hendricks, to appear before him and
give testimony. Knowing that to
testify against the saloonists would be
practical business suicide, and, being
unwilling to swear to what was not
the truth, he simply declined to testi-
fly at all. The county attorney conf
mitted him for contempt, but allowed
him to return home on his own recog-
niZance until the case should be heard
i'm the superior court September 3. The
best business men of the place sustain
his course, while the decision upon
the point of law raised will be awaited
with interest all over the State.
1t does not cure our own ills to
know that others are suffering equal
or greater ones; but 1t helps us to bear
them. A Kansas man writing recent
ly from Tippecanoe, Ohio, says:
Another hot dusty day. Forty-three days
now since rain has fallen In this part of Ohio.
As look over the usually great Miami valley
and see the parched and dried crops, I say
mentally, III this were In Kansas 1t would be
| telegraphed all over the United States as a
warning to emgrants. ~ Potatoes are now SELL
ing for thirty-fve cents per peck; last year this
time they sold for twenty-five cents per bushe.
Soft corn last year and no corn this year means
hard times to the Ohio farmer Wheat and oats
are very poor. From good wheat ground a
Miami county farmer got siNty-nine bushels on
ten acres. I was In his barn when he ran
twelve bushels of this through the wind mill
and got an even salt barrel full of refuse, good
that the rent here is almost as much per acre
as the land would be worth in glorious new
Kansas, IL takes close figures to save embarras-
ing debt.
Gdnute Times: We had the pleas
ure this week of meeting Mr.. Robert
Cook, of lola, In the Times office. Mr..
Cook may truly be said to be the king
of western hog breeders. He has been
in the business over 30 years, about II
years of that time in the State of Kan
sas. In that seventeen years, he has
sold about three thousand head of
thoroughbred pedigreed hogs at from
SO to $50 each. While i'm Kansas he
has sent hogs to nearly every State i'm
the UniOn-many into the state of
New York ami the Cook Poland China
may be found all through the Pacific
slope States.
George Rhoades, of Salem, was i'm
town Tuesday en- his way to FIT. Scott
where he goes to report for duty as
fireman on the Mo. Pac. railroad ,hav-
ing sold his Salem farm. Mr.. Rhoades
Is a good citizen and we are sorry he
is to leave the county. He says, by
the-way, that the rain made him at
least $50, adding that much to the
value of the personal property which
he sold at auction Monday. And he
says also that he took i'm more money
at his sale than at any sale he had
cried during the past five years, near
" $500 out of little more than 500
being cash down.
Union: Our present Superintend-
ent of Public Instruction, f. I. Barber,
announces himself as a candidate for
denomination. He Is now serving his
first term and well deserves a second,
for he has made an efficient and ener-
getic official. He Is thorough and
systematic i'm the discharge of his du-
ties, at all times working for the best
interest of the schools of our county.
During his administration the educa-
tional interests of Allen county have
been ably maintained. Mr.. Barber
deserves second term and he will
get it.
They have queer way of doing
things up at Cottonwood Falls. Mr.. +.
W. Myler taught there last year and
was re-employed, at an advanced sala-
~, for the coming year by the old
board which happened to be made up
of members of the NJ. E. Church. At
the late school meeting, however, the
Presbyterians got the upper hand and
voted to employ female teacher,-a
delicate, indirect way of informing Mr.
Myler that his services were not re-
quired. He took the hint and has ac-
cepted fiattering offer made him to
take charge of the Baldwin schools.
Our friend, Capt. H. +. Travis, is
spending o good deal of time these
days explaining that he Is not the man
who accepted a nomination for the Of
flee of District Clerk from the Peoples
convention. The gentleman who did
accept this nomination is Robert Trav-
Is, and he Is tall and thin with red
hair and full red beard and a hatch