The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-02-27
KANSAS NOTES.

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Hutchinson is shipping horses to old
Mexico by the car load.
Abilene people are considerably agi.
tated over the scarcity of water.
1t cost a Linn county man an average
of 81 day to winter ITO head of calves
and yearling.
Senator-elect PETER says that he is
for "the suffrage of women, whether she
wants it or not"
Last year there there were sixty
camps OF Sons Of Veterans organized in
the state of Kansas.
Joe Shackleford, late of the Belle
vile Telescope, has invested in paper
in Connersville, Ind.
According to the Globe eleven citi-
zens OF AtchisOn are employed as bar
tenders at st. Joseph.
George r. Peck will deliver the an.
nual address at the Kansas State Nor
mai commencement next June.
There is deaf mute lady setting type
In the state printing Office at Topeka,
and she belongs to the printers union.
Senator-elect PETERS private secre-
tary will be his youngest son, who is
now reporter on the Topeka Capital.
Realestate men at lola cannot remem-
per the time when there was such a
demand for farm property as at present.
There were IL ,612 teachers employed
last year in the schools of this state.
Inc number of school houses is g.
S11.
Smallpox is reported at little town
named Alien in Lyon county and cases
are also reported near Sedan in Chau-
tauqua equity.
The reform press of the state is to
hold convention at Hutchinson on the
24th, to which the I16 reform editors
have invitations.
Attorney General Ives decides that
county commissioners are crimipiallv
liable when county warrants are issued
IN excess of the levy.
A careful and impartial canvass of
Ablllne by the city marshal discloses
the TACT that there are I28 dogs in that
town subject to taxation.
Last week Sedgwick county farmer
sold fourteen bushels of apples in WITCH
lta for 81 cash. His orchard last wear
Melted him over 81 900 per acre.
w. F. Rightmire has moved his law
once to Topeka. though it was decided
last 1ali by a vote of the people that he
should remain at Cottonwood Falls.
Caldwell is one of the three points
selected by Postmaster General Wanna
maker at which to test the practicability
OF the carrier system in small towns.
AT the teachers examination at
Leayenworth the other day eighteen
applicants presented themselves for
certificates, but only nine of them pass
ed. p'''
captain Jacob B. Chase, one of the
Tour men who located the original site
OF Topeka, died recently at his
bone in Newburyport, Mass, aged 20
years. "
Emporia News: The fact that John
Waller has been appointed to a consul
snip In southern Africa is substantial
Evidence that the president bears Kan
'as no i'll will.
or the thirteen alliance members
elected to congress last fall five are
rom Kansas. Georgia sends three,
NEBRASKA two, Minnesota one and
South Carolina one.
fTedonia's canning factory has twelve
Ear loads of tin coming to be manufac-
,ured into cans for next summers work.
Inc company will take care of $4,000
worth OF truck" next season.
Elders mortgage bill has passed The
aouSe and will be considered bv the
senate. 1t gives two years. stay in
ihe process of foreclosure. but will not
effect mortgages already made.
The attendance at Bethany college at
Llndsborg, this year is 315. The insti-
tuition last year was not only self sup
porting but Melted gain of 81 900 and
Will do better than that this year.
The largest county in Kansas is But
Ter, which has an area of 1,428 square
niles. Rhode Island has i ,OS5 SQUARE
miles. There are six counties in Kan
sas each of which has larger area than
that of Rhode Island.
Jacob Letter, an old soldier of Jewell
county recently wrote to President
Harrison to hurry up his pension. as he
was about to lose his farm. In two
weeks the pension allowance and ten
year arrearage came, and the farm
was saved.
1t is understood that if Major Hood of
Emporla removes to Kansas CITY to
lake the presidency of the American
National bank, Senator Plumb will pr1r-
chase the majors home, which is the
hnest in EmpOria and one of lhe best in
Kansas.
The twelve creameries of Dickinson
county have paid to the farmers of that
county during the past year over 500
U0 in cash. The industry is growing
rapidly and many farmers are turning
their attention almost exclusively to
dairy products.
The total number of boys confined in
the state reform school up to a recent
date was 5S5. Of these Al were born in
Kansas; 16 in Illinois; Is in Missouri; 9
In Indiana, and in Ohio. Canada and
Europe are the native countries of 4.
and D do not know their native state.
The supreme court has affirmed the
Judgment of the Marshal county
district court in the case of Ira Nj.
hodges and A. c. Emmons, the bankers
VINO received deposits when they knew
the bank was insOlvent, and they will
go to the penitentiary for twenty years.
Judge L. d. Bailey of Garden CITY
says that sc, 100 acres of crops will be
irrigated this year in western Kansas,
Two-thirds of this area will be in Fin
ney county and the remainder will he
equally divided between Ford and Kear-
ney counties. The cost of irrigation is
about Sl.25 an acre.
The following are exempt from Jury
service in Kansas: A member of any
volunteer lire company, clergymen,
practitioner of medicine, attorney
clerk or other officer of court, ferry
keeper, postmaster, overseer, coroner,
cOnStahle millar or rrofocna.. :. -