The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-09-25
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

The wedding suit Of Wellington
!. man was stolen the other night, butfo
tunately after he was married.
The Kansas university Is good dea
set up because q Harvard graduate Il
sending bis con to Lawrence this year
There are 1892 lots in Hiawatha an,
, out of that number only eighty-six tina
! allowed the taxes to become delinquent
The recent marriage of its editor
Mr.. Davis. is pleasing proof of tn,
prosperity of the Junction City Tri
bune.
John Hutchings, q citizen Of Law
renee whom that town and the state o
Kansas could i'll afford to lose, is YER,
critically i'll.
A Wichita bank clerk, who tried :,
put on more style than the president O
the institution III which he is employed
is In trouble.
j The trial OF Brennan, the slayer o
Sam Wood. has been post poned unit
November 4 on account Of the sickness
of Mrs. Wood.
Wichita has resident who was ono.
an oyster pirate. He sold his yacht
came west, and Is now q respected snt
wealthy citizen.
The city of Horton has 1, 467 lots upor
which the taxes are delinquent. Il
costs the county sl47.7O to pay the ad
yertising bill on them.
Oats will average about forty bushel.
to the acre in Riley county. The horses
at Fort Riley always create q good
home market for that cereal,
The presentation OF q 81 900 check Il
an Emporia bride by her father estsb
fishes the social supremacy Of tina,
town over Topeka and Wichita.
! Cottonwood trees which sprouted
from slips" in the Missouri bottom.
near Atchison in 1881 now measure
fifty-two inches in circumference.
Atchison Champion: Jupiter will
continue to be the evening star during
September, provided always that the
Holton Recorder does not object.
Seventeen thousand seven hundred
pieces of property were sold for taxes
this fall in certain Kansas town stu
ated between Newton and Wellington.
The freshman classes at the Kansas
university are all so large this year
that it has become necessary TO divide
them. Rock, Clark, Jayhawk, K. 8.
u .. ..ns
At Gueda they say there is a wonder
full baby. His father is an Irish gen.
tleman: his mother is an English lady.
The child was born in America and In
Kansas.
A japanese student has entered the
-. IL
His home is Toxic. The university is
quite abreast of the times.-Lawrence
Journal.
Two companies of the regular army
from Fort Riley are making the yearly
thirty days march prescribed by the
government. They are marching
through the state.
One hardware firm in Hiawat tina has
sold fruit cans enough to supply one
can for each man, woman aud child in
the county, besides three or four extras
for Ewing Herbert.
Ralph NJ. Easley, for twelve years
the able editor Of the Hutchison News,
has severed his connection with that
journal to accept an editorial position
on the Chicago Inter- Ocean.
Lane university at Lsoompton oponed
this year with big attend ance, which
will make the old faculty which
thought they had killed that insti Mon
by resigning feel kind Of cheap.
The demand for farm help ct Reod
wages this summer and fall IL uSpre-
cedented in the history of western Kan
sas. Farmers have moro work than
they can do and help is scarce.-Ker-
win Independent.
The Wellington Mail tells about IN
apple tree near Belle PLANE which is
filled with fruit of the Golden Russell |
and Maiden Blush varieties, which are
said to be growing on the same branch |
es all over the tree.
Land contests are now in order. The |
register reports more land to b con-
tested now than at any other time |
since 1885. So much for the value OF |
county and northwest Kansas
and.-Atwood Times.
c. Wood Davis OF Wichita was
offered big salary to travel
n Europe for publishing Arm, but he
declined the tempting proposition.
The Kansas people will be glad to know
t. The state can't afford to lose q man
who is in favor of 81 wheat.
The United States marshal has un.
couple of female joint keep
ers at Abilene who were selling whisky
without government license. The
penalty for that sort Of thing is severe
Ind 1t is imposed in Kansas quite as i'm
as in any other state. It won't
10 to fool with Uncle Sam even in q
state.
Sam Kimble claims the champion
hip of bicycling. Sunday he made the
I'm from the city to the Kimble home
tead, six miles up the Wild Cat, in
me hour. He made the return trip in
orty-nine minutes. On the trip out he
arried his son Kennie, weight about
hlrty-five poundsl on the coasters.
an any of our bicyclists show better
ecord?-Manhattan Nationalist.
The state board Of railroad commits
toner's reaffirmed its order to the Union
'acific and the Atchison, Topeka &
ANITA Fe railroads to build a connect {
ng track between their lines near En-
erprise. The mayor and common
ounci OF Enterprise brought the orig :
nal complaint against the companies :
nd the commissioners ordered that
ne connecting lines should be built BY
eptember LIST. The railroad compa-
les asked for rehearing. 1t was :
ranted and the order stayed. This took
lace September 5th and the companies