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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-11
KANSAS CROPS.
The Report Of the State Board Of Agricult-
ure Makes . Good Showing.

Inc Report OF the state BOoRo OF ASricuiW
ure Makes Good Showing.
TOPEKA, Kan, April 5.-Secretary
Mohler, Of the Agricultural Department
has issued his crop report as follows:
Reports now in from nearly 500 cor
respondents of this board representing
1O5 of 106 counties of the State clearly
indicate that the agricultural condition
throughout the State at this date is on
the whole satisfactory. The winter was
exceedingly mild and favorable to win
tering all kinds of stock, and but for the !,
cold weather and high winds of March
the wheat plant would have passed
through to the spring rains and spring
suns unimpaired. From this cause tho
plant generally throughout the State
has suffered more or less, and in some
south and southeastern counties the
| danger has been serious. In many pOr--
| lions of the State the condition is excel
| lent, and in a general way the farmers
I of Kansas have reasons to be encour--
aged.
Wheat-The increase in area sown to.
wheat in the State in the fall OF 1889 as
compared with that sown the previous
SCais as SStlIudtCu ny Jul SOAiOSpOhu-
ents, is "a per cent, which gives total
area for the State of 1,925, 33S acres, or
an excess of 374, 391 acres over that OF
the previous year. Eleven per cent is
reported winter killed. The general
condition of the plant as compared with
full stand and unimpaired vitality is 90
per cent
Rye-The average of rye is estimated
| at per cent less than last year, and
the condition compared with the general
average for a term Of years is 96 per
cent.
Live-Stock-With the exception Of
distemper which prevailed in many
sections of the State causing loss in
places, there is no prevailing diseases.
Horses are in good condition. Our cor
respondents report cattle healthy and in.
good condition generally. There has,
however, been an unusual loss of cattle
feeding on corn stalks during the
winter, and there has been much specu--
lation as to the cause. The most careful
farmers who took every known precau-
ton to insure safety met with losses,
and the opinion prevailed that the stalks
were diseased.
| Hogs-Hog cholera is reported as hav-
| ing prevailed during the winter in many
counties of the State, though generally
in mild form. In some counties, how
ever, the loss was heavy. At this date
the disease seems for the most part to-
have disappeared.
Tame Grasses-The condition of tame
grasses is generally reported good-in
many counties excellent-though some
correspondents report clover damaged
by the freeze in March. .F.s
Fruit-Peach buds are reported killed,
with the exception of those in some 10
calities in Southern Kansas All other
fruit buds are apparently in good condi-
ton.
The Season-Farm operations have
been retarded generally throughout the
State by the cold weather in March.
Farmers, however, have succeeded for
the most part in getting their spring
wheat and oats into the ground before
April 1. az +
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-11
Killed a Noisy Negro.

srRAwN, Tex, April 5. "A fatalshoot-
ing ARRAY occurred at the mining town
of Thurber, in Palo Pinto County, five
miles from this place, last evening, in
which Pat Singleton, a deputy sheriff,
fatally shot Gus Foster. a negro miner.
Foster was drinking and rather. noisy
and got into quarrel with another ne
gro. Singleton interfered to stop the
difficulty. Foster attacked him, catch
ing him by the throat. Singleton drew
his pistol and shot Foster, the ball pass
ing entirely through his body, lodging
in the wall Of the house. He fingered
in great agony until he died. .lts
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-11
KANSAS DAIRYMEN.
Matters Discussed at the Abilene Meeting
Interesting Papers Read.

ihteTtstihS ncssu
ABILENE, Kan, April 5.-The Kansas
State Dairy Association met yesterday
morning for two days session. The
meeting was called by j. Z. Nisley, of
this city. In the absence of the presi-
dent George Morgan, the association
elected +. Ii. Hill, of Kansas City, pres
ident pro tenn. and j. E. Nisley was
made secretary. Reports of the Topeka
meeting and of the years work were read.
In the afternoon F. C. Moies, OF New
York, read an address, Hints to Dairy
men" Cleanliness and more care in
breeding cows were urged as the neces-
sites of Western dairymen. He ranked
Kansas very high as a butter State Ed
itor J. III. Monrad, of Chicago, declared
that Kansas led all the Western States
for the quality of butter produced! F.
II. Hill, of Kansas City, saw much
progress likely from the fact
that farmers were giving aup the
old system of tin pan cream raising
and turning over the busine IS to the
creameries. James Anderson, Of New
York, denied the claim that 12 cents
would be the maximum price for butter
lulS proNCu iuCtuCuS u
ping would make better prices. This
view was concurred in by all dealers
present
SECOND DAY. q t#g .
ABILENE, Kan, April 1-The second
days session of the State Dairy Asso-
citation opened with larger attendance
than the first, number of delegates
having arrived during the night. The
entire association was driven to the
Belle Springs creamery of ]. E
Nissley & Co. and inspected fits
workings Returning the meeting
was called to order by President
Morgan. J. H. Monrad. Of Chicago,
read a paper on THE Ideal Creamist"
Prof. c. c. Georgeson, of the State Agri-
cultural College, was present and gave
some valuable ideas on the food for
dairy stock. F. II. Hill, of Kansas City.
read paper on GLOW Shall We Build
Up the Creamery Business"
In the afternoon the chief address was
by ]. E. Nissley, Of Abilene, on Dairy
ing in Dickinson County," H.. d. Fish,
of Junction City, read one on Cheese
Making" Resolutions were adopted.
asking for space at the coming State,
Fair and advertising space in announce
ments. Also demanding the State Agri-
cultural College to give more space TO
dairy experiments.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-11
GENERAL.

THE Mossbay Hematite Iron & Steel
Company of England has suspended
payments, owing to the fall in the price
of iron and also to improbable con-
tracts. The company announces that
it will pay its creditors in full.
LISTERS spinning factory at Bradford,
England, has been destroyed by fire.
Loss, $500, 600.
The first number of the Kolonial
Blatt, the official organ of the German
colonies, has been published at Berlin.
1t is published under the direction of the
Imperial Foreign Office.
JOSEPH NJ. DAVIS, of Philadelphia, was
seized with fit on the Boulevard Mad
elm at Paris the other day and shortly
afterwards expired.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-11
Tornado in Illinois.

GALESA, Ill, April ga tornado
passed over this city yesterday after
noon, accompanied by deluging rain
and a rumbling noise. The damage in
cludes the blowing down of many sign
boards, the partial destruction of
furniture factory, the unrooang of
several houses and the wrecking OF q.
smokestack. On the hills fences were
leveled and trees were uprooted- No
lives were lost and no person injured.
At Urbana, Ill, three business houses
were unroofed. At Monmouth, Ill, some
damage resulted, but the storm fortu-
nately lifted and passed over, the princi-
pal part of the city.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-11
Three More Dead.

MARSHALL, Ill. April 5.-Word was
received to-day from jacksonville, the
scene of the terrible explosion on Tues
day, that three more men were dead and
another nearly So The dead are: A. b.
Hussong, Alfred Hussong, Ed Garrard,
Jack Ewing, Sam Watson, johnson Win
ters. Perry Plew is not expected to
live; Will Harris and Henry Carpenter
will recOYers
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-11
THE SOUTH.

]. NJ. FoLLANsBEE, of the Bavicore
ranch, arrived at Ell Paso, Tex, from
Mexico and reported that the Cosihuiri-
achic reduction works, located about
fifteen miles southwest of Chihuahua
and owned by New York company,
were totally destroyed by fire. The
loss was 81, OOO,O
GENERAL THOMAS C. ANDERSON, a
prominent Republican politician, for
many years deputy collector of New Or
leans and member of the famous
Louisiana returning board from 1874 to
1876, died recently, aged seventy.
SIX small boys were buried under a
caving sand bank at Vernon, Tex, re-
Gently and killed. They had been dig
ging cave.
A REQUEST has been made on Governor
Gordon, of Georgia, for the appointment
of a male whipping boss for the punish
ment of refractory female convicts in
the camp near Atlanta.
A HEAVY wind storm destroyed two
churches and other property at Arkan-
sas City, Ark, recently double mis-
fortune as the city was three feet under
water.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-11
InundatiOn Feared.

BAsTRoP, La, April 5.-Infornation
was received here last evening that the
Bonydee levee, twelve miles east of this
place, which protects the richest part of
this parish from overflow. has broken.
As the overfowed water in Bayou Bar
tholhome was almost up to the highest
point, it is feared that the lower country
will be inundated in a short while.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-11
CAPTAIN couch SHOT,

In n Dispute Over a Claim He Receives a
Disabling Wound in the Leg.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Ok, April 5.-Cap-
tain w. L. Couch, ex-mayor of this city
and the noted leader of the Oklahoma
boomers, was shot yesterday afternoon
by j. c. Adams, the ball entering the
left leg just below the knee at the back,
breaking both bones and passing out in
front.
Captain Couch is a contestant for the
valuable claim adjoining the city on the
west and on which Adams has the filing.
Yesterday afternoon Couch and his son
undertook to set some posts for fence
when Adams appeared and ordered them
to desist
A quarrel ensued and one version of
the affair is that Couch seized Adams,
disarmed him of his pistol and fired
every load at him. Adams retreated to
his house, where he procured his Win
chester and at distance of about 200
yards took deliberate aim and fired with
the result above stated.
There are other versions OF the affair,
but the one here given is most probably
the correct one.
Immediately after the shooting Adams
went before Commissioner Scott and
swore out a warrant for the arrest of
Couch and his son, while on behalf of
the Couches warrant was issued by
Commissioner Monroe for Adams, who
was Immediately arrested and put under
a 81, 600 bond to appear at ten o'clock to-
day for his preliminary trial.
COUGHS wound is serious and will
render him cripple for life even if
amputation of the limb is avoided.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-11
The French Murderer,

PARIS, April 5.-A wild story is pub
lished in all the papers here stating that
Eyraud, the murderer, was arrested yes
terday at Paso del Nortc, in Mexico.
The French police claim to have official
knoWledpe of the arrest
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-11

CITY OF MEXICO, April 5.-The Diario
Hogan (newspaper) says that revolu-
ton has broken out near Ignala, in the
State of Guerrero, the Government of
which is unpopular.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-11
Our Own Siberia.

New YORK, April 5.-An Atlanta, Ga,
special to morRing paper which has
been exposing the Georgia convict sys
tenn, says that separate camp for the
women has been established at Bolten,
ployed at broom making. Yesterday the
singular request came to Governor Cor
don that he should appoint whipping
boss for the camp and a man named
Cowan was duly appointed to fill that
office. The appointment of a male
whipping boss for women is apologized
for on the ground that his presence will
be sufficient to preserve order and that
he will never be called upon to lay
actual stripes on a woman.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-11

In three cases of shoes from George
town, Mass, Il. G. Peister, merchant
Of Petoskey, Mich, found seven one
pound cartridges Of dynamite. They
were frozen and had not thawed out
Two HUNDRED farms we're sold under
mortgage in two days by Sheriff john
son, of Atlantic County, N. j. One
farmer was so crazed at losing his home
that he burned himself in his dwelling.
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gales for six weeks, disabled md without
enough canvas 10 give her s~tccrageway.
In this fashion she scuddcd from st.
Johns to within 800 miles of Cork, whore
a. steamer picked Ter up and towcd her
into port. If ever q vessel was put TO the
test, the Pimlico was. l hold that tho
one thing That saved her was her bluff
hull. She would mount the heavy seas
as they come along, instead of having
them jump and spend their force against
her sides, as in tho case of the deep
draft vessels. ~ shoal vessel will make
better weather in Il gale of wind and a
heavy sea, and will show up with COM
paratively dry decks alongside n vessel
Of tho same size drawing eighteen or
twenty feet OF water.
When n survey was held on the Pim-
licO, to ascertain what strain md wear
she had sustained in her six-wceks' ordeal.
she showed up as sound and MS tight rs
she was the day she was launched. A
regular ocean sailor, / warrant, would
never have wcathered that storm MS she
did.
Why. there is not n bottom on these
lakes but will drown an ocean vessel i'll IL
storm. I would consider myself safer
aboard the Owego, tho Chcmnng, Sns-
quchanna, or n dozen other vessels I
could name. in a storm OF the Atlantic
Than 1 would on Ii of the big ocear-
liners. They are moro b%uoynnt. They
have not got t%wenty-siX or twenty-eight
feet of hull under water. They rise mp
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The propeliers running between Chi
cago and Bnff 10 in connection with rail-
roads, and the ore-cartie,s engagedin the
transportation OF thst mineral between
tie mines OF the Lake Superior region
A z

aud tho Lake Erie furnaces, may proper
" be called the representative steamers
of the lakes. They represent an outlay
covering upwnid of 60 per cent. of the en-
tire value Of floating properly OH the
lakes, and carry more than half Of the
merchandise transported.
As TO tho relative merits in general
build of the lake freighter as against the
salt water steamers, opinion appears TO
be about equally divided. You cannot
compare the two" said an old aud expe-
rinced vessel-owner and ex-master ycstcr-
day. Tho lake steamer is so far the
stronger and better of the two i'll every
respect that comp ,riscn is out of the ques-
ton. This refers alike to the sailing ves-
Sci and the steamship. OF the former I
wi | relate au incident which will bear mo
out i'll the assertion.
In the fall of 70 the schooner Pamlico
cleared this port for Liverpool with a
cargo of grain. She was n regular lake
trader. 1t was the first load of grain
which ever was shipped direct, and the
first American bottom tho Canadian Gov
ernI.ient granted permission to go through
the st. Lawrence River. The boat got out
and ran into the Atlantic in the teeth
of a westerly guile. OShe was n typical
lakey, bluff-bottomed. roomy beneath the
water line, and of little draft. Well. sir,
she got the weather good and hard. She
lost II of her spars, and her canvas was
torn into shreds. To make n long story
short. she was driven before the westerly
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As an invigorating tonic, it i'm
parts strength to the whole system.
For oyerworkcd, "worn-out," de-
bilitated teachers, milliners, dress
makers, seamstresses, "shop-girls,"
housekcepers, nursing mothers, and
feeble women generally, DIR. Piercc's
Favorite Prescription is the great
est earthly boon, being uncqualcd
as an appctizing cordial and rcstor-
alive tonic. Contains no alcohol to
incbriate; no sugar OF syrup to de-
range di digestion; a legitimate meai-
cine, not a beverage.
AS a soothing and strengthening
ncrvine, Favoritc Prescription" is
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beginning to be . little TOO familiar on
such short notice. We set out about 2
O'Clock in the AFTERNOON, and got th,es fine
males in about two hours within a mile
OF our prospective camp. We soon came
across another fellow, the biggest we had
yet seen. and got quite close to him
In order to make sure work Of him. We
fired together Mt him, or rather intended
to do so. but my rifle missed fire for some
unacconntable reason, aud the bullet
from tho scouts rifle only wounded the
grizzly in ono of his fore paws. He Was
onto us pretty quick, I c,n tell you, and
we made for trees in a hurry. / got up
all right, but the scout missed his grasp
and fell 10 tho ground. Before he could
get up the grizzly was onto him. and a
terrific tussle ensucd. Tho lrute huaged
and hugged and bit fierccly, and the
scout kept stabbing and slnsLing with his
knife. / got an opportunity finally and
fired, taking chances. %Fortunately Ishot
the bear Though the brain. and the scout
was saved, and, do you know, he was not
much hurt after all. nsked him how he
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enter largely into the construction of the
mercantile marine of the United States,
says u writer in the Chicago Inter Ocean.
Since this change the use of metal in
ship-buiiding has greatly increased, and
in vessels propelled by steam has prac-
tically usurped tho place of wood. 1t
has extended oyer tho Transatlantic,
transpacilic. md coastwise trade to our
WI lakes, and the network of rivers and
canals. whose ramiiications extend tho
advantages of water transportation over
o great area of tho United States.
1t has been said that the change from
wood to metal was not n good one; that
stout oak would Withstand q greater
vessel on q rocky reef would live longer
than o ship constructed of iron or steel.
Without touching the relative merits Of
material used in the construction of the
bulls. the purpose of this article is to
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but could not get Il bite and finally deter
mined to chan,c NY tactics. / made q
small raft, about six fc,t square,, and
padded it over to tho foot of the fall.
anil rs tile trout came up out of the pool
l..fter coming down The fall will the re-
bound l caught as many MS I wanted
with my hands, some of them weighing
as much as three POUNDS"
THAT was not sIortsmanlike. What
kin Of fishing would yon call that"
asked tho President Indignantly. We'll,
l should call it catching them ON the fly. Z"
And tho story went down on tho min
ntss.. you can tell your story now,
Frank" suggested the President, as soon
us order had been restored. Frank is one
of the younger members, and his tale was
as follows:
Some years ago 1 was in British CO.
lumhia Mt a Chinook camp on one of tho
rivors there. Tho Chinooks arc a tribe
Of Indians there who live by hunting and
fishing, and SO plentiful is the supply of
fish and game that they do not have to
work very hard. Thoy are clean Indians
for Indians-and 1 had a pleasant visit
of several weeks among them. In the
rivers there, when the salmon IRE run
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with the swell and ride it out. The seas
would not mount them and sweep every
thing Off the decks. Their lifting power
is greater and their displacement less. /
hold, too. that all gales on these lakes
are q great deal more severe than on the
ocean, and that our shipping passes as
severe tests rs any in the world. The
seas here are shorter and moro choppy.
The heavy, short, breaking sea is the
dangerous one.
sand, then, look at tho rapid strides
our lake marine hos been making. Take,
for example. such boats as the America
or the A. p. Wright. Either of these will.
take on n load of l00,ODO bushels Of grain
here and go to Buffalo, and tho running
expenses of either boat will be less than
incurred by the old-fashioned carriers of
twenty years Ago. that had all they could
take care of in u load of 25,HnO or 30, D9D
bushels. Tho evolution in marine nrrhi-
lecture on these lnlies has boon something
remarkable. Whore IN former yeas they
launched ton schooners for every one
steamboat tho order is now reversed.
The schooner i'll twenty wears hen &c will
DO an obsolete institution. Steam has
almost wholly s%upplantcd canvas. Steam
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xe.ur. Ia cenvulslon

Il terrific. Volcanic eruptlons. cyclones, earth.
quakes axo awfuliy aud Tremendously pietur-
ssque. but scarcely desirable to emulate In action
and effect by the administration Of remedies
which produce convulsion and agony In the OBJ
FORMAL portion of the human frame Such 10
the effect Of tho old.fashioned violent purga-
tives happily falling moro and moro into disuse.
and Of which Hostetter's stomach Bitters Is tho
wholesome. pleasant and far moro effective sue
cedaneum. They weakened the intestines-the
Bitters invigorates them. They left the bowels
inactive. because incapacitated by ensuing fee
bleness. Tho Bittcrs, on thec contrary. and be-
cause It enables, not forces, them TO act-9 vast
and fortunate diderence-perpetuates their ac-
tivity and regularity. Tho liver 10 Oeneficially
stimulatcd, as the kidneys also arc. by this medi-
cinc, which ensily conquers, also. malaria, ner.
YQuaness aud rheumatism.
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Consistency.

Wife-You shabby man! There's a
big hole in your trousers. I should
certainly tlink ycu would get q new
pair and look decent.
Husband (two hours later, display
ing new trousers}-What do you think
Of these? Ten dollars.
Wife (orying)-That's just like you,
when You knew I wanted a new bon.
nst.-Cl0thier and Furnisher.
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ming, it is really an indisputablo fact that
the water rises eight or ten feet i'm height
to make room for the salmon to ascend
the river, and when. they nro returning
down stream after spawning they push u
solid wall of water in front of them. +
know this is true, because I have seen it
myself. To catch these salmon, many of
them weighing thirty to forty pounds. all
one had TO do was to throw n graphing
hook into tho river anywhere and pull it
in to shore with q salmon or two hooked.
Thcre was no need of any bait or anything
else. 1t used to be anuisance Sometimes
these fish were SO thick i'll the stream TINT
WI could not use the till night time,
when the salmon would be asleep and
still. Two or three feet of water would be
running over them like over q dam. We
had all the salmon We wanted to cat and
more, too"
Il have heard, said the Vice President,
shat the Chinooks eat the salmon raw"
THAT is not true" said Frank; sall our
salmon were boiled in the river"
river?"
Boil them? Why, the river was teenl-
ing (steamingl with them"
aOhl" and the story wa duly recorded.
The President had fallen asleep. so the
Secretary called on one of the Oldest
members to contribute something Of an
Il do not know. friends" he began,
that I have anything of an interesting
nature to communicate and you know the
rules of the club forbid n telling any
thing that 10 not true; SO I am in rather
9 quandary Whit to tell you. Years ago
I was up in Montana near q place now
known o. Three Forks, Gallatin County,
and 9 powerful place it was for grizzlies.
too. I can tell you. Why, / have seen as
any az thirty grizzlies inone afternoon,
seem to b afraid Il my one. either.
Well, ONE day an old scout and i deter
mfnedvs would kill feWsfoltheir Skins.
and 70 Brighten them Q ltttis. aathsyawsre