The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-06-26
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

freQOnla Will soon nave lllSeeu On
md paint mill in operation.
A Wellington man sold two prairie
logs last week to a New York man for
20.
An Emporia woman claims to have
bullet only four months old that lays
Eggs.
Every pond, lake and buffalo wallow
IN the prairie is filled with water out in
stanton county.
The government has appropriated
b, 300 for the renovation of the public
building at Topeka.
One hundred car loads Of agricultural
Implements have been unloaded at Har
Der within the last three weeks.
The colored man who graduated this
5ear from the law department of the
Kansas university was born slave.
The st. Marys Star has dropped its
democracy and becomes the official ALI
lnce paper of Pottawatomie county.
Garden City will celebrate the Fourth
grand style. A big old fashioned
rontier dinner is the drawing card.
The rain started a fra in Beloit by
alling on exposed lime, and then kind
put the fire out before muc1 damage
vas done.
The Emporia Republican says: It
would be difficult to make a newcomer
o Kansas believe that this was ever
irouthy state.
A quarter section OF land in kiowa
county was unaccountably overlooked.
frank Leard found it, located upon it,
md sold his right 70; Sl,500.
a band of begging 'gvpsies" is work
ng the towns OF eastern Kansas. where
he city marshals compel them to move
IN before they set up their tents.
The Winfield base ball club chal-
enges any club within radius Of sixty
niles to play upon any terms agreeable
% the club accepting the challenge.
Topeka Journal: Strange noises COM
ing from the Kansas orchards emanate
from the peaches and apples crowding
each other for room on the branches.
The agent of the Northwestern road
at TOnganoXie beat his wife. The next
lay the travelling auditor checked him
ouC,' and he Is now looking for Il Job.
The Topeka Democrat has offered to
10 the city printing for less than it costs
to Set the type. The editor of the Demo
crat is one of the few men who i able
TO run newspaper for the fun there Is
in it.
Southern Kansas will show q better
yield of wheat than WAS estimated by
the most sanguine. Harvest has com
nenced. although the ground is heavy
COR the reapers
Chairman Dumbauld of the peoples
party in Kansas, has jssuee Il call TO all
the alliances in the state, recommend
ing that they hold alliance picnics ev-
on July 4th.
Topeka now has two companies that
will take you to the worlds fair, pay all
your expenses, and keep the buncO
steerers away, if the proper amount is
dropped INFO the slot.
The State Bible school camp at Law
renee has been named Camp Helmicka
in honor of Charlie Helmick, who sac
riticed his bright young life by going to
Africa as missionary.
1t pays to put wheat in well. says the
Johnson City Journal. The best crops
in the country are those which were
sown on ground which had been well
before seeding.
Ground was broken last week for a
new ladies hail on the campus of Mid.
land college at Atchison. A large
number of students and friends were
present to celebrate the event.
A farmer, near Hor:ou. visited a
gambling den in that city one night
asst week, leaving his wife and two
babes in his wagon out in the rain until
o'clock in the morning, when he went
broke.
Atchison Globe: This" observed
the ragweed to the sunfower, AS it look
ed over the tops of the corn and saw
the farmer and his family climb into
the big,wagon and start Off to an alli-
ance picnic. lis good day for US to get
Dur work n"
Lane university, which was built on
The foundation of the territorial state
house at Lecompt0n. graduated seven
students from its academic course this |
ear and eight from the nOr.nIl and |
commercial course. The enrC. ment |
his year was 326 students.
It has been estimated that the con- |
inued rains have destroyed on t.. !
lines about 2g.0O0 crates of strawbeI- |
les in Douglass county alone Othe"
mall fruits are to some extent becom- |
ng moulded, and potatoes are il rad |
hape. Hardly field mas been entered /
ince those crops were planted.
One OF the good acts of the last legis- |
allure. and one which will make some !
men trouble. Is the law governing pri- !
nary elections. \ man must testify. |
whether he incriminates himself or not.
nd the giver OF brides Is not only pun |
shed by fine and Imprisonment, but he
s debarreG the right OF suffrage.
4 hive Of bees swarmed in q corset that
lad been hung out to air in NOrtA Atchi-
on last week. The owner o. the corset
ried TO coax the bees off by beating a
in pan. but they settled down to bust
less and she had TO go without her cor
ct until her husband came home al
light and smoked the invaders of.
The commissioners OF Brown county
upplied tickets to Oklahoma to & dan
erous loafer who had been terroriziug
hat county. These commissioners fol
owed the example Of the commissioners
+ Saline county. who few years ago.
appropriated money for the purchase o:
ickets to send gang Of disreputab.e=
D Denver.
The 3. !, u, railroad has organized
Il irrigation company in Cheyenne.
he extreme northwest county in Kan
ae. and viii invest 100000 in bitches
nd reservoirs. The president Of the
ompany is G. ". Holdredge, the 3. *
Is. general manager. and the vice
resident r. o. Phillips. who is secre-
AIRY OF the Lincoln Land company. also
B. q VI. corporation. The COMPANY
as surveyed l20 miles OF bitches be-
ides laterals. aud great many men
nd teams are al work tearing up the
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