The Iola register., 1891-07-31
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

tuc Ot1icE ud} OF lOpVho Oac vi tHc
presents was an alarm clock.
There have been no mortgage fore
closures on farms in Brown county for
six months, and only thirteen in three
years.
Peaches are rotting on the ground in
large quantities all over Kansas
What's the matter with drying them
for fuel.
George X. Peck and ". II. Rossing.
ton of Topeka, will start for Europe in
a few weeks They are not going on
business.
Sumner County Press: Speaking OF
poor farmers, Wichita has one VINO
could not plant his feet in the road and
not raise dust.
A spire fifty-two feet in heighth has
been built on the Congregational
church at Oswego. That town is evil
deutly looking up.
The Mcpherson college offers a
years scholarship free to the teacher
making the higest general average in
the common branches.
Albert Griffin. who once thought he
was in q fair way to be president, has
accepted a sl.SO0 clerkship in one OF
the departments at Washington.
A man in Topeka who has loaned
lots of money at per cent month
says if he had 100000 to invest he
would put in farm lands in Kansas.
The farmers of Kansas are finding
out this season that it doesn't pay to
raise peaches at ten cents bushel in a
state where the manufacture of brandy :
is prohibited by law.
A s. greenback was received by the
state treasurer at Topeka the other day
which had Kansas City whisky ''ad''
written on it back. 1t was voted an
outlaw on Kansas soil By Rory Moore.
Jake Stotler: The checklist thing
on the road between here and Topeka
is seventy-five cents for dinner at
Florence. 1t is said Fred Harvey has
made over a million dollars out of his
Santa Fe eating house
The first number OF the Agora, which
is published at Salina by the Rev. Mr..
| iChiltonden, is filled with excellent
reading matter and is model of typo
graphical neatness. 1t is almost as
handsome as its editor.
Web Wilder will deliver the annual
address before the Western Insurance
association, which meets at Chicago in
August. II the insurance men care
anything about choice English they
have great treat in store.
The museum of the university OF
Kansas is now with only one exception
the richest in the world in regard to
Cretaceous animals, and has to-day
the most perfect specimens of fossil
animals above ground Lawrence
Journal.
There has been so much wet weather
all over the west that hot winds are
not at all probable. Travellers from
the west say that corn will make big
yield, even if there is not another rain,
corn could not be better under any cir
cumstances in any country.
7. B. Sweet, president of the Kansas
Moan and Trust company of Topeka,
says: Farm lands are worth % per
cent more this year than they were
last year, and we have sold more land
in the last ninety DAYS than We had
sold before in the last three years"
The Wichita Eagle says that one
more rain between now and the lst OF
August will make the biggest corn crop
that has ever been in the Arkansas val
ley. The right kind of weather will
produce from seventy to 100 bushels to
the acre. All that Jerry Rusk needs to
do is to press the button and the farm
ers will do the rest.
The largest Pterodactyi obtained
measured fifteen feet in wing expanse.
This is kind of bat with teeth set in
a bird like beak. The longest saurian
was fifty feet long and almost perfect
from tip Of nose to last tail point. One
of the most valuable specimens in the
lot is fossil mososaur, an animal re-
sembliug lizard, which was absolutely
perfect in every respect. 1t is ten feet
long.
Wallace county has just reason to re-
joice. A bountiful harvest is being
garnered, considering our population.
The wheat acreage is very large and
the yield surpasses the most extraya-
giant estimates and expectations, and
the quality is superb. This is practic-
ally the first wheat crop that has been
tried in these extreme western coun-
ties and results are extremely crafty
ing indeed.-Wallace County Ex-
change.
A package of infected chinch bugs
received from Professor Snow two
weeks ago were given to w. l. Bohansn
who put fresh ones with them on Satur-
day, observed directions carefully. put
them in the field on Tuesday, and has
the satisfaction of finding the pests
both old and young, dying in qusnti-
ties. Another box received at the
same time for William McCartv were
put TO work two days earlier and on
Tuesday Of last week the pests were
punching up" dead and dying to-
gether, and he thinks will practically
extermiDate. But what is the use OF
multiplying examples? The chinch
bug is doomed.-Cedarvale Star.
W. II. Brush, writes from Salem.
Oregon, I'm up here in this neck O
woods Say to the boys, stay away
from the northwest. No good free |
land any more. Good and available |
timber land hard to find. More then
half the saw mills in Washington stand |
ing idle. Country over run with men
out Of employment. More than half
and nearly three fourths OF the farms |
plastered. Worth $50 per acre to |
clear I'D heavy timber land. Times |
hard. Not so good a country for the |
DOOR man take 1t all in all as is Kansas. |
already loug for Lsnsas air and SUM-
shine. Most Kansans here will drift |
back again to Kansas. Co. Clip |
per.
The president of the Kansas loan and |
trust company at Topeka says that
farm lands are worth 25 per cent more
now than they were last year and that
his company has sold more land in the |