The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-05-29
KANSAS STATE NEWS,

The Eldorado wooden mills are to be
removed to Tennessee. Eldorado is a
town where the people give great deal
Of attention to politics.
Speaker pro tenn Matchett of Osborne
county, who was in Oregon when
elected representative, has decided no;
to remove from Kansas as he originally
intended.
The Methodists began business in
Lawrence N 1855 with seven members
in sod meeting house. Last Sunday
they dedicated church costing $40.
$50 with membership OF $50.
1t is a foregone conclusion that Judge
Botkin will be acquitted. It isn't bit
easier to impeach a republican in Kan
sas for drunkenness than it is to convict
a democrat in Missouri for embezzle-
ment.
The Patriot saws: An Atchisou man
has sent s. bill to England in an
envelope every week for the past twenty
years, and has never lost dollar. This
fact came out in a recent trial in the
probate court.
A live tarantula is on exhibition in q
Wellington drug store. A great many
people who drop in to see it march
right through to the back part of the
store, though the tarantula is in the
front window.
The Paola town boys are organizing
aball club to play clubs from the sur
rounding towns. They seem to be work
ing very energetically and there is no
doubt plenty of good material there for
a good club if they will bring it out.
L. L. Hoaglen, prominent hardware
merchant OF Scranton. Kansas, was
overcome by damp while attempting to
repair pump on the 10th inst, and fell
100 feet to the bottom of the well.
Death resulted from fractured skull.
An Emporia dog persisted in running
in front OF team belonging to the fire
department whenever the engine was
called out, and though he was frequent
" reproved for doing so he stubboruly
adhered to the practice until a police
man shot him dead.
| Emporia which is just now in the
throes OF great religious awakening.
has 7-year-old girl who can play high
five" considerably better than the aver
age person three times her age. She
never bids more than her hand is worth
and always makes the correct lead.
Arthur Capper, city editor of the To
peka Capital, has made an arrangement
to put in a year or more on different
metropolitan journals in the east for the
experience which the change will give
him. The papers which get the job Of
teaching him will be in great luck.
Near Leavenworth a farmer had his
entire farm gradually washed away by
the Missouri river some years ago. Soon
after the river began to deposit rich
soil along the banks where the farm
once was, and recently the owner went
to the county clerk and had his farm.
which was much larger than before, re-
placed on the tax record.
Linton Usher of Leavenworth, has
secured a verdict OF $500 damages in a
| libel suit against the Omaha Bee in
which he asked for $4,000 Certain
charges made by FlOretta Russell, sis
ter-in-law of former partner of Ush-
er's, and published in the Bee, were
the cause of the suit. Since the YER
dict the county attorney says that he
believes the woman is insane.
The 5-year-old sons of Messrs. Wells
and Rollison. residents OF Washington.
KS, wandered from home Sunday morn
! ing, the 18th instant, to play on the
bank of the creek, about 100 yards dis
tant. 1t was just after a rain. They
were missed. and after short search
were found buried in a sand bank, where
they had sought protection from the
rain. When dug out it was found inn
| possible to restore life, as both bodies
were cold and stiff.
The Rev DR.. Cordley of Lawrence,
who is known as the nugget preacher"
| in Kansas, will sail for England July 1st
as delegate to the international confer
ence of the Congregational churches.
He will be accompanied by Mrs. Cord
ley. They will be absent about three
months, and while in England will visit
the doctors birthplace in Lincolnshire,
where the old house in which ne was
born is still standing. DR.. Cordley has
earned this outing by years Of faithful
and earnest toll for Christ and for Kan
| saS.
Miss Palmer. an attractive young
woman from Philadelphia, is endeavor-
| ing to pOpularize the India silk worm
| in Kansas. She says it is much to be
preferred to the Chinese worm, which
| has already eaten its way into that
state. The worm that she advocates
thrives out Of door on oak, maple, cot
tonwood, English walnut, apple, plum
and cherry trees and makes fine quail
! ity of silk from the castor bean plant.
/ 1t is more hardy worm than the Chin
csc worm and is less trouble and ex-
pense, while the cOcoons are five times
larger, fifteen to twenty of which will
weigh a pound, while it takes about 800
of the Chinese to the pound.
The cattle men in the vicinity OF En-
poria are concerned about the appear
ance OF a new cattle disease among the
cattle of Mr.. May, near Wykoff. A
post mortem examination of the first
one afflicted was made. The disease
had been present in the system for about
| two months and the whole body was
covered with tubercles. and the fact
! that the other animals were taken in
| the same way in close succession, proves
] the disease to be contagious. There
was 40 perceptible change in the out
ward appearance with the exception of
| small, hard. lUnpy knots on the jaw or
about the head. There was no shrink
age in weight nor falling of in the sup
! ply OF milk.
Topeka Capital: Woodruff will be
given another trial Early yesterday
morning telegram was received from
Little Rock, Ark. stating that Frank
| Woodruff, the Lawrence deputy post
master, had been ordered released on
bail by Judge Caldwell of the United
States circuit court. Woodruff was
convicted on May Ist in the United
States district court of appropriating