The Iola register., 1891-07-17
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

neighborhoOd OF 20 cents.
C. C. Arnold was the first white set
tier o. Sedgwick county. He located
where Wichita now is in 1857.
The City Bank at Usage Mission has
closed its doors. The assets anG liza
bilities of the bank are unknown.
Medicine Lodge, the home of Jerry
Simpson, besides producing statesmen,
raises gooseberries that are two inches
in circumference.
The Republican. an evening paper
established in Leavenvorth a month
ago to fill long felt want, died Of con-
sumption few days ago.
Sheriff Weir of Morton county denies
the statement that James B"Cnnan was
a deputy sheriff, or that he permitted
Brennan to have unusual privileges
while IN his charge.
John A. Hazeltine OF Mitchell county,
has a farm which is eight miles round
and he expects to have l2.0O0 bushels
of wheat this year. He is about the
poorest politician in his neighborhood.
The board of county commissioners
OF Leayenworth, has appropriated s204.-
so, which is 10 per cent of the amount
assessed against Leavenworth county,
as its share of the 100000 worlds fair
fund.
a geodetic station has been estab-
lished on the Heath farm in Ellsworth
county, where the roaring billows of
the Mulberry and the raging waters of
Elm creek divide and flow into diver
gent channels to the sea.
The present sheriff of Leavenworth
boasts that only one prisoner has been
taken to the penitentiary since he went
into Office. That prisoner was Green,
the colored fellow who killed an old
soldier on Christmas night, 1889.
C. G. Scrafford was at one time we'll
known in Kansas, but has been away
seeking health has returned to his
former home at Seneca to Gie. His
trouble is a complication of diseases
which affect the action of his heart.
Peter McGrath. an insane veteran at
the soldiers home, jumped out OF a
three-story window in Company X s bar
racks last night, to the stone pavement
beneath, and instant death was the re-
suit. McGrath was permitted to go
from his cell into the bath room, where
the windows are not barred. He opened
4 u
Standard, July Sd.
Through chair car service has been
placed on the NJ, K. & I. from Hanni-
bal, Mo-, to points in Texas. The chair
cars will take the place of first class
coaches now in use on the main line
and will be run free. This commend
able addition cannot fail to meet the
approval of the general public and
places the old reliable NJ, K. & T. in
the front rank of all western roads in
point of passenger equipment.
The midsummer meeting OF the south
Kansas conference will be held at Kin
caid August Al, 1891. There will be
three lectures delivered during the
meeting, as follows: Tuesday, August
ith, at o'clock p. m. Future Punish
ment," by Hugh McBirney. Wednes-
day, August 5th, observations in Pal
estine. by an Eye Witness" s. S. Mar
tin. Thursday, August 9th, "An Hour
in Other Worlds" by J. W. Wright,
d. d.
Tell Walton of the Lincoln Republic
an, planted eighty acres of wheat last
fall for the purpose of ascertaining the
exact cost per acre of cultivating the
cereal in Kansas. He rented the land
and hired all of the work done. and ex
poets to come out ahead. When the
crop is harvested and threshed MIR.
Walton will make a statement in his
paper as to the result of his expert
ment and it will be awaited with con-
siderable interest.
Warden Case OF the state penitentia-
~, has made his regular monthly set
81 h. -4n4. .
shows that the expenses of the institu-
tions for the month were 80. SO,
while the receipts were s7,3i9 So. The
coal sales for the month were 17.734
bushels, and the state institutions were
supplied with 20, ,055 bushels. The to-
tai output of the penitentiary mine for
the month was, therefore, 81, TS9 bush
els.
W. D. Bell, the school teacher who
forged an order on school district 81,
Franklin county, and after being arrest
ed broke Jail, was arraigned before
Judge Benson last Monday and pleaded
guilty to the charge of forgery in the
first degree. He was sentenced to
term of five years in the penitentiary.
l.. Jamison. who assisted Bell in escap-
ing from jail, also pleaded guilty. and
was sentenced to the penitentiary for
one year and six months.
A man living south of Atchison re-
Gently came into possession of a number
of cattle hides, but had no way of get
ting them into the city to market ex-
cept to carry them on his back. He put
them into two gunuy sacks, three in
each sack. He could only carry one
sack at time, but he carried one sack
half mile and deposited it by the road
side. going back after the other. This
he continued until he reached the
town. He was afterwards given en-
ployment by the man to whom the hides
were sold.
Conductor Myers had an experience
yesterday that be will probably never
have again. His train was coming
north this side of Red Rock He looked
out of the caboose window toward the
front OF his train and saw a car ''wab-
bling" He signaled down brakes and
the train was stopped. He went to the
car to see what was the matter. He
found that the four front wheels OF
refrigerator car had jumped the track
and had run over 100 yards on the ties.
He placed his frogs along the track
and the car went on the first trial. He
lost just five minutes time. This is the
quickest time known where q car was
of the track and put on.-Arkansas
City Traveller.
Justin Barrett, aged 4, left his home,
Third and Usage streets, yesterday
morning with Henry Kerzdorn and Ed
die Young, boys OF about his own age.
Tney went to the river to float bark
and shingle boats and in reaching out
to guide his. the Barrett boy fell in and
was drowned at a point north of the
Kansas Central elevator. Barrett's
companions went home with their
clothes wet and accounted for their con-
ditlon by various stories. They were