The Iola register., 1891-04-24
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Archie williams died the other day
at Emporia at the age of 1Ol years.
The old derrick of the Abeline gas
we'll was sold the other day for SLIGO.
Two Kansas towns, jamestown and
Burr Oak, have elected women as police
judges.
| The Little Arkansas at Wichita is
said to be full of German carp. ''prop-
agated fish,"
At Anthony the Mayor was elected
by IL majority, at Emporia by and at
Wellington by4.
The metropolitan police commission
of Atchison has set its foot down on
gambling in that city.
There is pig at Junction City which
weighs 1882 pounds. 1t it is believed
TO be the largest pig in the world.
Mr.. L. J. Worden, for many years
post master at Lawrence, has been
placed in the insane asylum at Topeka.
Lawrence greyhounds captured the
prizes at the Chicago bench show.
When it comes to dogs, Kansas cannot
be beaten.
While lecturing at Fort Scott, Joseph
Cooke became so i'll that he was COM
PEELED to quit. His physician enjoins
complete rest.
A man bought farm out in western
Kansas last December for So, 800, and he
expects to pay for it this year with the
wheat he gets from it.
Mrs. DR.. Paxson was elected mayor
Of Kiowa last week, and in forty
hours after the polls closed not glass
Of beer could be had in the town.
A wreck was prevented by Charley
Harris. an Atchison boy, by tagging a
freight train on the central branch of
the q. PR R., before reaching a bad
slide in the bank.
The Kansas State nomal will gradute
sixty four pupils next June. That will
make little more room. but not nearly
enough to accommodate the new students
who will be coming in next fall.
Topeka Journal: The state house
dome is to be enclosed. AT present the
top OF it looks like an old fashioned
hOop-skirt-sucha one as Liberty en-
ligtening the world" might wear.
C. A. Heggelund, president of the
Second National 1ank of Mcpherson,
who was so mysteriously shot some
weeks ago, is slowly recovering. His
bank is in the hands Of receiver.
There is one old sinner awaiting trial
at Mcpherson on the charge of rape on
the person of a sixteen-year-old girl.
who is over seventy years old. The
case seems TO be entirely clear against
him.
An Atchison woman dreame the
other night that she was in heaven, but
she thought she couldn't find her hus-
band, though she walked up and down
the golden streets for four or five hours
hunting him.
The ladies of the G. A. r. was first
organized in Kansas four years ago and
there are now thirty-one sub-circles in
the state with membership of over
1,400. Only the wives, mothers, daugh-
ters and sisters of soldiers of the union
army are eligible to membership.
Newton Republican: Reports concern
ing the prosperity of Harvey county
farmers continue to come. A NewtOr
grain firm has purchased $4,000 worth
of oats from one enterprising farmer
and if negotiating for 2J.O0O bushels o.
corn and 10000 bushels of wheat raised
by the same man.
1t is claimed by the Troy Chief tina
the act of the late legislature pronibit
ing the alien ownership of land is,uncon
stitutional, the following section of the
bill OF rights squarely interdicting such
a law: No distinction shall ever be
made between citizens and aliens in
reference to the purchase, enjoyment OF
descent of property"
The Wheat fruit farm in Leaven
worth county yielded nearly 1S,00t
bushels of apples from 227 trees anC
s., 900 net profit last year. The expe.
rience with this orchard has been that
the Missouri Pippin is the best apple
for this section, the Ben Davis second
and the Jonathan third.
John J. Ingalls, has been offered Sl5,.
600 and expenses to deliver thirty lee.
lures during the present year. This is
authe ntic, and the offer will probably
be accepted. The ex-senator has alsc
been invited to deliver memorial ad
dress on the late General Sherman be.
fore the New York legislature.
A large stock barn belonging to Colo
mel w. A. Harris, located on his farm
in Leavenworth county, was sruck by
and the building, together with
a large amount OF hay and grain was
entirely consumed. Mr.. Harris also
had the misfortune to lose a number OF
valuable horses that we're burned to
death.
The case of Julie Rive King the plan
ist against the I-eavenworth Y.M.C.A.,
for breach of contract. comes up for settle
ment in the April term of the Leaven-
worth district court before Judge Gro
zier. The alleged contract between the
pianist and the association was for a
series of concerts in this state arranged
bv J. w. Areson, who was the local Sec
retary. The enterprise proved disas-
trous financially.
The superintendent of insurance has
his preliminary report of
the insurance business done in Kansas
in 1890. The report shows that the
risks written during the year aggre- |
gated Sl39, 425, 037.49, on which Sl,SS6, |
D30.39 was received in premiums and |
800, ,039.O9 paid i'll losses. The average |
rate OF premium on business is $l.3J. |
there is carried in life insurance S50,- |
i23, 425, of which S12, 2,697. .099 was writ
ten during the year. The total amount |
IN force at the end of the year was Si0.-
J2i.06l. The losses paid amounted TO
$3.50, 7042i.